Absolutely fantastic final in the snooker playing out between Shaun Murphy and Wu Yize. Last two frames have been something else.

In today’s @observeruk.bsky.social five focus groups in different areas with voters opting for different parties there was, almost to a word one common theme “doing the right thing, working hard, isn’t rewarded, and is often penalised”and a sense something has to give observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Changes to the controversial Doncaster Sheffield Airport lease are currently “on hold” - with no agreement over whether millions in taxpayer funding can be excluded from payments to landowner Peel. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Exc: Reform has rejected a Labour offer to accelerate the search for private sector investors in Doncaster Sheffield Airport as a crunch vote on the project's funding looms www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Big update on the Doncaster Sheffield Airport saga - days after Nigel Farage said a 'private sector solution' is needed and criticised council attempts to reopen DSA itself, Richard Tice now says Reform would seek a compulsory purchase of the site: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour, Reform and the Conservatives all say they want Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen. So why are there growing doubts about whether it will actually happen? Taken a crack at explaining a complex - and increasingly bitter - situation: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Photograph for the ages as Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. Picture by John Walton of PA.

Extraordinary development in the Doncaster Sheffield Airport reopening saga - Council chief executive Damian Allen has threatened legal action against leading Reform councillors. The council has said it is a ‘personal matter’. Details here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was: 1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee 2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was

Another story in the developing saga over the ongoing sale of DBIC in Doncaster... @chrisburn.bsky.social is also able to reveal the 'former Labour cabinet member' in his questions, which I covered for the LDRS recently, was Cllr Joe Blackham

Doncaster Council refused to comment for this story and have previously edited a councillor's question about the matter out of a YouTube recording of a meeting. Fair to file this one under 'more to come out': www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

BEIRUT (AP) - Multiple Israeli airstrikes hit central Beirut hours after US and Iran announce ceasefire. @apnews.com

This is the (Google translated) chyron on Iranian state TV right now: "Accepting Iran's conditions to end the war, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire."

Remember: this isn't the first time Trump has threatened to engage in large-scale destruction of Iran's power plants and bridges and then backed down saying talks were now doing wonderfully. It's the fourth. So hopefully this time it's real. But we've been here before.

This is a point which could become a lot more pertinent for Downing Street in the next day or so.

Yes Trump's posts are horrendous but they're also completely incoherent. It's pretty obvious he doesn't know what to do.

The hope has to be that Donald Trump is pursuing 'Madman Theory' to force a negotiation with his threat to wipe out Iran and won't actually go through with it. But God knows at this point. Scary, awful times.

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

'God bless the great people of Iran' (who I'm explicitly threatening to wipe out in a few hours).

BLOOMBERG: Markets remain bullish on continuing coyote elevation prospects

Clean up our clock tower: New campaign launched for developers to sort out the state of one of Leeds' most famous landmarks - the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post clock tower www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/yor... | @yorkshirepost.co.uk | @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Markets wanna believe in the Taco so bad. Give it up, lads. Me, 300 clicks, etc - as.ft.com/r/21e53628-d...

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

"Bailey’s latest intervention feels like a notable change in tone compared to the March meeting," said J.P. Morgan economist Allan Monks. "Bailey’s comments suggest April is too soon for a majority for a hike to develop, and we now shift to expecting one hike in June."

Pete Hegseth too dim to realise that it's a lot easier for other countries to just cut a deal with Iran for using the strait rather than send their own militaries to fight a unwinnable battle that the US doesn't want to touch itself.

Great question. The problem, of course, is that every other journalist in the room didn't keep asking it until they got an answer.

Very important article: was the whole Epic Fail the first war caused by #LLM s telling the credulous what they wanted to hear? I fear they at least influenced it. These are very powerful tools. They can do terrible harm if used unwisely. houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-...

Breaking: Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have officially joined the war, launching a ballistic missile toward southern Israel and triggering air raid sirens. Israeli defenses intercepted the missile.

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

BREAKING: South Yorkshire Police have confirmed detectives have now formally launched a criminal investigation into Andrew Milne. The solicitor bought hundreds of freeholds, then begun a campaign of “very aggressive” letters to pressure homeowners into buying them for more than their true worth.

Lot of excitement about very small numbers of US troop deployments. The Iraq invasion in 2003 involved almost 300,000 troops. Idea of scale: the day before Baghdad fell I spent the whole day overtaking an endless column heading north towards Hilla.

If you didn't read this amazing piece in december then here's another chance today as the extraordinary Nathan Newby receives the UK's high gallantry honour, the George Medal as.ft.com/r/57d73632-e...

New: UK Government data shows how Iran war is having an impact at the pumps - diesel up 8.1p per litre in the last week to average 166.88p with petrol rising 3.9p to average 144.16p.

What an amazing coincidence - Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump’s social media post on Iran talks www.ft.com/content/1171...

"Me and the next ayatollah"

IRAN'S FARS NEWS AGENCY CITING SOURCE SAYS THERE ARE NO DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH U.S. NOR THROUGH INTERMEDIARIES

In Britain this is considered the highest form of praise.

People will snark about Trump chickening out and his spelling etc but reality is we were 12 hours away from an absolute humanitarian and economic disaster if the US had followed through with attacking Iranian power plants and Iran had hit back in kind as threatened. So relieved it's not come to pass

Whew (for now).

1/ Global supplies of natural gas face collapse in only 10 days' time, when the last pre-war liquid natural gas shipments from the Gulf reach their destinations. The shortage threatens to cause huge disruption for Asian countries in particular. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/wart...

We'll see who's arrested for this and if any groups claim it. The MO reminds me of the suspected Iranian virtual proxy attacks in Europe over the last few weeks.

Trump develops bone spurs mid-campaign.

"This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

Bombing their oil and gas facilities whilst lifting sanctions. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

Wow.

Feel like these two tweets sum up where we are right now