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Romelu Lukaku: Is Inter Milan forward showing Man Utd what they are missing? Just one day after a wasteful Manchester United exited the Europa League, their former striker Romelu Lukaku showed them exactly what they are missing. The Belgian took his tally for the season to 33 goals in 50 games for Inter Milan as Antonio Conte's side brushed aside Shakhtar Donetsk to set up a showdown with United's conquerors, Sevilla. It left former Old Trafford midfielder Paul Ince, a pundit for BT Sport on Monday, betting that United still wish they had the striker and many a Red Devils fans lamenting what might have been had he stuck around. BBC Sport assesses another superb performance in what has been a stellar debut campaign for Lukaku at the Nerazzurri. FULL REPORT

Bayern Munich is the preferred destination for Hearts full-back Aaron Hickey, 18, who is expected to leave the club over the summer. (Scotsman)

I would have him and De Bruyne in my team any day old or not.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has agreed on a new contract with Arsenal, with the club only waiting for the striker to return from holiday to announce the news. (Talk Sport)

There is one guy you miss buddy and that is Agüero, he would have buried this and then complete the come back with another and maybe an assist.

Fury (2014) - 8/10 WWII movie starring Brad Pitt, not bad and the ending is the best of the action.

Sending £10 in this Thursday, no blow jobs please as I can't return the favour with my asthma and COPD Edit: a tenner in (early hours)

Kevin de Bruyne: Manchester City midfielder named Premier League player of the season https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53797353

NASA/JPL Eyes

What are some skywatching highlights in August 2020? See the Moon posing with various planets throughout the month, plus catch the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What's Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/whats-up... Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech

Can't wait for February and hopefully Perseveran reaches and lands on Mars successfully

Robots go their own way deep in the ocean "It's very common," says Jess Hanham casually, when asked how often he finds suspected unexploded bombs. Mr Hanham is a co-founder of Spectrum Offshore, a marine survey firm that does a lot of work in the Thames Estuary. His firm undertakes all sorts of marine surveying, but working on sites for new offshore wind farms has become a big business for him. Work in the Thames Estuary, and other areas that were the targets of bombing in World War 2, are likely to involve picking up signals of unexploded munitions. "You can find a significant amount of contacts that need further investigation and for a wind farm that will be established in the initial pre-engineering survey," he says With that information project managers can decide whether to place turbines and other equipment a safe distance from the suspected bombs or have them blown up by a specialist firm. At the moment marine surveying is done by teams who go out on boats, collect the data and bring it back for analysis. Sometimes that will involve a relatively small vessel with two crew members, a surveyor and his kit. But bigger inspection projects further out to sea can involve much larger boats, with dozens of crew members, costing in the region of £100,000 per day. The sensor equipment varies according to the job. Sometimes it might be a sonar array towed behind the boat, for other jobs it might be an underwater unmanned vehicle, which can be controlled by surveyors on the surface. Bad weather can disrupt the work and make life uncomfortable. "I've been at sea in force nine and force 10 gales and they're not nice places to work," says Brian Allen, chief executive of Rovco. FULL REPORT

Robot boat completes a three-week Atlantic mission A UK boat has just provided an impressive demonstration of the future of robotic maritime operations. The 12m Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Maxlimer has completed a 22-day-long mission to map an area of the seafloor in the Atlantic. SEA-KIT International, which developed the craft, "skippered" the entire outing via satellite from its base in Tollesbury in eastern England. The mission was part-funded by the European Space Agency. Robot boats promise a dramatic change in the way we work at sea. Already, many of the big survey companies that run traditional crewed vessels have started to invest heavily in the new, remotely operated technologies. Freight companies are also acknowledging the cost advantages that will come from running robot ships. But "over-the-horizon" control has to show it's practical and safe if it's to gain wide acceptance. Hence, the demonstration from Maxlimer. FULL REPORT

True, I have Google Chrome Grammarly that will highlight spelling mistakes or what they think is mistakes so you either correct them yourselves or ignore or add them to your Google Chrome dictionary, a lot of American English spelling though is completely different to the UK like colour, flavour, labour in English so American English is spelt differently and that would show up in the Google Grammarly or auto-correct as a spelling mistake underlined in red so you either correct then into English or just leave them.

Tried that with our son "Support United son, you wont go wrong...bla, bla, bla..." he grew up and.......supports Liverpool, his choice, grrrrrrrff

Manchester United Under-23s manager Neil Wood has strongly suggested France Under-17 midfielder Hannibal Mejbri, 17, will remain a part of the youth set-up next season rather than step up to the first team. (Manchester Evening News)

Like that and I have bookmarked the link, nice one.

FFS, I don't drive but stupidity like that with a car makes me think that thank fuck I don't drive, surely seeing that other car ahead looking like it has sunk in a collapsed bit of the road would make the driver of that car get out of his/her vehicle quick smart and leave it there, that beggars belief.

Just watching a report now on the Scottish news, the wife just said that she saw a report that the train driver died in the crash, it might have been caused by a landslide due to the weather.

New dinosaur related to T. rex discovered on the Isle of Wight A new species of dinosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton believe four bones found at Shanklin last year belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur. It lived in the Cretaceous period, 115 million years ago, and is estimated to have been up to 4m (13ft) long. It has been named Vectaerovenator inopinatus and belongs to the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex and modern-day birds. The name refers to the large air spaces found in some of the bones - from the neck, back and tail of the creature - which is one of the traits that helped the scientists identify its theropod origins. These air sacs, also seen in modern birds, were extensions of the lung, and it is likely they "helped fuel an efficient breathing system while also making the skeleton lighter", the University of Southampton said. The fossils were found in three separate discoveries in 2019 and handed into the nearby Dinosaur Isle Museum at Sandown, where they are being displayed. Robin Ward, a regular fossil hunter from Stratford-upon-Avon, was visiting the Isle of Wight with his family when they made their discovery. "The joy of finding the bones we discovered was absolutely fantastic," he said. James Lockyer, from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was also visiting the island when he found another of the bones. "It looked different from marine reptile vertebrae I have come across in the past," he said. "I was searching a spot at Shanklin and had been told, and read, that I wouldn't find much there. "However, I always make sure I search the areas others do not, and on this occasion, it paid off." Paul Farrell, from Ryde, added: "I was walking along the beach, kicking stones and came across what looked like a bone from a dinosaur. "I was really shocked to find out it could be a new species." 'Delicate skeleton' Chris Barker, who led the University of Southampton study, said: "We were struck by just how hollow this animal was - it's riddled with air spaces. "Parts of its skeleton must have been rather delicate. "The record of theropod dinosaurs from the 'mid' Cretaceous period in Europe isn't that great, so it's been really exciting to be able to increase our understanding of the diversity of dinosaur species from this time. "You don't usually find dinosaurs in the deposits at Shanklin as they were laid down in a marine habitat. You're much more likely to find fossil oysters or driftwood, so this is a rare find indeed." It is likely that the Vectaerovenator lived in an area just north of where its remains were found, with the carcass having washed out into the shallow sea nearby. The university findings are due to be published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology and co-authored by those who discovered the fossils. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-53738762

Europe's earliest bone tools found in Britain Archaeologists say they've discovered the earliest known bone tools in the European archaeological record. The implements come from the renowned Boxgrove site in West Sussex, which was excavated in the 1980s and 90s. The bone tools came from a horse that humans butchered at the site for its meat. Flakes of stone in piles around the animal suggest at least eight individuals were making large flint knives for the job. FULL REPORT

Bloody peed down last night with thunder & lighting to boot also, cooled it down though but today is back to being sunny and muggy which I hate, bring back the rain, thunder & lighting, please.