In Pictures: Factories, farms and football feature on campaign trail
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Rishi Sunak’s day got off to an early start as he chatted with shift workers at a warehouse in Bedfordshire at 4am – but he tried to keep the press pack happy with some fast food.
The Prime Minister went on to visit a supermarket, a factory and a farm during a hectic morning.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer spent time at a non-league football club.
His time in the East Midlands also involved a visit to a factory in Chesterfield.
Sir Ed Davey fell down – and then got up again – on his visit to the Cornish coast.
Former British tennis number one Tim Henman was left bemused after being pulled over by the police on his way home from the Wimbledon championships on Wednesday
Half an hour before England’s European Championship begins, the DJ at Trabrennbahn Gelsenkirchen gets serious. There is space for 40,000 fans at this racecourse-turned-fanzone but punishing rain and an exodus to the stadium has thinned the crowd. Perhaps 2,000 remain and the site now resembles Glastonbury on the Sunday of a wet year.
A shocking animal protest displaying a 'dead dog being roasted on a stick has left Henley Royal Regatta attendees 'stunned'. The daring stunt, which revealed a lurcher dog 'being cooked' under a banner that read 'The Great Dog Roast', occurred at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, yesterday (3 July). The prestigious rowing event, attended by celebrities and royalty alike, attracted crowds of 300,000 spectators - and many were left 'horrified' to see the unusual delicacy: a dog roast. The stunt, in which a silicone model of a dog was used, was organised by the UK’s leading vegan campaigning charity, Viva! in a bid to 'challenge the perception that it’s socially acceptable to eat some animals but not others'. Viva!’s founder & director, Juliet Gellatley, said: “This Viva! stunt pushed boundaries and had the desired effect of shocking thousands of people into facing the reality that eating pigs, cows and other animals isn’t so different to eating dogs.
The edgy build-up to South Africa’s match against Ireland in Pretoria on Saturday has brought back memories of the most brutal match I have been involved with as a coach.
The most boring and ponderous team to watch but you have to be in it to win it and Southgate’s side are still there somehow. Being fun to watch is great but playing badly and winning is not a terrible habit to have in knockout football. Might be wishful thinking but surely they have to play better at some point. Then they might still be dangerous.
An impulsive late-night text has brought about a crowd-pleasing combination at Wimbledon: Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu on the same mixed-doubles team.