Liverpool confirm wish to redevelop Anfield and not move to new stadium

Liverpool have moved a step closer to redeveloping Anfield after formally confirming their preference is to remain at their existing home and not build a new stadium in Stanley Park. Symbolically, on the day of Fenway Sports Group's two-year anniversary of buying the club, a definitive way forward in relation to the long-running ground issue was identified by the managing director, Ian Ayre. Liverpool City Council has announced extensive...

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Long-form travel writing with Mike Carter

For all that technology has transformed how we see the world, it's the written word that still provides the most eloquent descriptions of travel. This Masterclass is for anyone who wants to learn to write first-person travelogue pieces to a professional standard. Lead tutor Mike Carter writes regularly for The Guardian and Observer, and is the author of two travel books. Over the weekend, you'll learn how to structure a piece, write a compelling...

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Small-town America: readers' tips

Jerome is a small town between Prescott and Flagstaff, and was once the fourth-largest city in Arizona. Now only about 450 people live here, many of them artists and musicians. It is known as America's most vertical city as well as its largest ghost town. We didn't see any ghosts but can vouch for there being some steep hills. We ate the best burger we ever had at the Haunted Hamburger (thehauntedhamburger.com) on Clark Street.azjerome.com skymancloudnine East...

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Felix Baumgartner makes record-breaking skydive from space – video

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumps from more than 24 miles above Earth, breaking the speed of sound before he releases his parachute. The 43-year-old broke the record for highest jump set by Joe Kittinger at 19.5 miles in 1960. Kittinger was in the control room in Roswell, New Mexico, together with Baumgartner's fami...

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Hang up on sickening phone scams

Every week we receive tales of fraud, scams and rip-offs. The most distressing involve the callous exploitation of elderly savers, often through the telephone equivalent of "door stepping" where the scamsters won't hang up until they have fleeced their victim. But a tale we were sent this week is one of the most sickening I've heard. It involves a 75-year-old woman – we won't say her name – who was phoned by a firm, ostensibly in...

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PAYE or off-payroll: the employers and employees dodging tax

There are more than 1.5 million freelance contractors and consultants in the UK. Most are genuine and pay tax in full. Indeed, many would rather be on the payroll and taxed through PAYE, but aren't given the choice by employers, some of whom are abusing the tax system. But other freelances are, to put it bluntly, on the fiddle. A committee of MPs, led by Margaret Hodge, have expressed their shock and disgust at how many of the BBC's...

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Winsor McCay: Little Nemo in Slumberland Google Doodle celebrates a comics great

Google has celebrated the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland with one of the search engine's most elaborate doodles ever. The doodle recreates the adventures of the main fictional character from the illustrator's comic strips, which first appeared on 15 October 1905 in the New York Herald. Widely regarded as one of the great figures in the comics form, McCay's bold and stylistic innovations in the early part of...

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