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@Stan, ... Arsenal are ready to see if they can tempt Brendan Rodgers from Leicester after drawing up a managerial shortlist to replace Unai Emery. (Mirror) Leicester will demand a £14m compensation fee if any Premier League club lures Rodgers away. (Telegraph)

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Europe's new space budget to enable CO2 mapping Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. They will be developed out of a new European Space Agency (Esa) budget agreed in Seville, Spain. Research ministers on Thursday approved a package of proposals worth some €14.4bn (£12.3bn/$15.9bn) over the next five years. As well as the new CO2 monitoring system, the funds will also pave the way for missions to the Moon and Mars. FULL REPORT

Antarctica: Metal meteorite quest set to get underway A team of British scientists has arrived in the Antarctic to try to find the continent's "missing meteorites". The group, from the University of Manchester, will spend six weeks scouring a remote region for lumps of iron that have fallen from the sky. These pieces of metal represent the shattered remains of small planet-like objects that were destroyed in the early years of the Solar System. Iron meteorites are rare, however, especially in Antarctica. Less than 1% of all the space rocks recovered in searches on the continent are of the metal type, compared with about 5% elsewhere in the world. But the Manchester researchers believe they know the reason for this statistical deficit. Their modelling work suggests the iron meteorites are out there; they've simply buried themselves in the ice in the Antarctic sunshine. "Iron meteorites have a higher thermal conductivity than chondrites or stony meteorites," explained mathematician Dr Geoff Evatt. "That means they can warm and melt the ice around them more efficiently. So we expect them to be there, hanging just below the surface," he told BBC News. FULL REPORT

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Chong missed a sitter too. Match Report Tahith Chong should have made it 2-0 after the break, but astonishingly scooped over from six yards with an empty net in front of him.

I don't get into debates about politics and that includes him, buddy, me and the wife will decide who to vote for tonight, post it off then that's the end of the story for me.

Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen 'dog' stumps scientists Researchers are trying to determine whether an 18,000-year-old puppy found in Siberia is a dog or a wolf. The canine - which was two months old when it died - has been remarkably preserved in the permafrost of the Russian region, with its fur, nose and teeth all intact. DNA sequencing has been unable to determine the species. Scientists say that could mean the specimen represents an evolutionary link between wolves and modern dogs. Radiocarbon dating was able to determine the age of the puppy when it died and how long it has been frozen. Genome analyses showed that it was male. Researcher Dave Stanton at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Sweden told CNN the DNA sequencing issue meant the animal could come from a population that is a common ancestor of both dogs and wolves. "We have a lot of data from it already, and with that amount of data, you'd expect to tell if it was one or the other," he said. New story for the domestication of dogs Study reveals the wolf within your pet dog Another researcher from the centre, Love Dalen, tweeted a question about whether the specimen is a wolf cub or "possibly the oldest dog ever found". Scientists will continue with DNA sequencing and think the findings could reveal a lot about the evolution of dogs. The puppy has been named "Dogor", which means "friend" in the Yakut language and is also the start of the question "dog or wolf?" Modern dogs are believed to be descendants of wolves, but there is debate over when dogs were domesticated. A study published in 2017 suggested domestication could have occurred 20,000 to 40,000 years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50586508

Well, that's me & the wifes Postal Votes just been posted through the door and we will do what we do whenever there is an Election issue etc happening, sit down later and have a natter with each other, then a natter with our son & daughter and then decide who to vote for. I am a Labour man myself but I don't like that arsehole Corbyn running the party, I get that horrible feeling he is another Michael Foot in the making and with this General Election coming up Corbyn will get a bucket full of eggs in his face just like Foot did. Foot led Labour into the 1983 general election when the party obtained its lowest share of the vote since the 1918 general election and the fewest parliamentary seats it had had at any time since before 1945. He resigned the party leadership after the election and was succeeded as leader by Neil Kinnock. Michael Foot

Leicester's new training ground is on course to be completed by next summer despite recent bad weather proving an "absolute nightmare" for contractors, Buddhist monks have blessed the new training ground in an elaborate ceremony. (Leicester Mercury)

Rangers' on-loan former England striker Jermain Defoe, 37, is willing to take a pay cut to complete a permanent move from Bournemouth. (Football Insider)

WHAT!!!! Love the game although I have never been on the ice the wife has done skating at Murrayfield when she was young, we have local teams here too that we watch on the box when we can. SCOTTISH ICE HOCKEY EDINBURGH CAPITALS

Liz got me into candles now I love them, we have them all over the place and some Liz won't light as they are sentimental and given to her from aunts & uncles now deceased from years ago.

I do love them though, I can remember when they had the power cuts during the '70s and sitting in the house with candles lit and just nattering away thinking about old times when there was no electric and just candles and log fires, you kept yourself occupied by reading or just talking.

Just had a power cut, only lasted about 10 minutes but it was quite nice just sitting here with some portable lamps on and candles lit, hearing the wife moans because she was in the middle of a game on her Facebook, the central heating going off and she was hungry and ready to make her tea, I managed to find my wine in the fridge and sat here with a smile on my face watching her scowl at me...then the power came back on...oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

Over 1,200-yr-old tomb unearthed in China's Hebei 崔力,王昆,曹槟 © Provided by Xinhua News Agency SHIJIAZHUANG, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- An ancient tomb dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) was found in north China's Hebei Province, according to the local cultural relics protection department on Monday. The tomb, which experts believe dates back more than 1,200 years, was discovered by a villager when digging in Duanying Village under Cixian County. A tombstone, two porcelains, 12 potteries and some bronze pieces were also unearthed. The inscription on the square-shaped tombstone measuring 45 cm in length and 9 cm in thickness consists of 323 Chinese characters recording the name, birthplace and life story of the tomb owner, and its inscription year in 733. The tomb owner was believed to be a respectable man, said Zhao Xuefeng, a cultural relics expert, adding that the findings can serve as a reference for research on funeral customs and the village's history. The two porcelains, one a bluish-white glazed tripod censer and the other a black glazed jar with two loop handles, are important to the research of the porcelain craftsmanship of Cizhou Kiln from celadon glaze to white glaze, Zhao said. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/over-1200-yr-old-tomb-unearthed-in-chinas-hebei/ar-BBXlWWJ

Great auk extinction: Humans wiped out giant seabird "The great auk will always hold a place in my heart," Dr Jessica Thomas says. The Swansea-based scientist spent years piecing together an ancient DNA puzzle that suggests hunting by humans caused this giant seabird's demise. Dr Thomas studied bone and tissue samples from 41 museum specimens during a PhD at both Bangor and Copenhagen University. The findings paint a picture of how vulnerable even the most common species are to human exploitation. Storybook seabird About 80cm (2ft 7in) tall, the stubby-winged and bulbous-billed great auks used to be found all across the north Atlantic - from North America through Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and the UK. "Being flightless, they were always targeted by local people for food and for their feathers," says Dr Thomas. "But around 1500, when European seamen discovered the rich fishing grounds off Newfoundland, hunting intensified." By about 1850, the great auk was extinct; the last two known specimens were hunted down by fishermen on Eldey Island, off the coast of Iceland. "We looked for signatures of population decline [before 1500]," Dr Thomas said. One of these signatures might be a lack of genetic diversity, suggesting individuals were inbreeding and the species, as a whole, was becoming vulnerable to disease or environmental change. "But their genetic diversity was very high - all but two sequences we found were very different," Dr Thomas said. In fact, the genetic timeline Dr Thomas and her colleagues were able to create showed, at the time the intensive great auk hunting began, the species was doing "really well". "They weren't at risk of extinction at all," said Dr Thomas. "It emphasises how vulnerable even the widespread and abundant species are to this intensive, localised pressure." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50563953

I wouldn't say it's cold buts that's because the wife has the bloody central heating on full blast but I know it's pissing down outside.

You sound like our son, if I mention Stirling to him he throws a tizzy and calls him a "fucking turncoat little bastard "

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