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1. More than 200,000 people have now crossed Channel in small boats

   Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to tackle people-smuggling gangs to deter people making the dangerous crossing

2. Local election results live: ‘Challenge Starmer by Monday or I will’ Labour MP tells Cabinet ministers

   Sir Keir Starmer has brought in Labour grandees including a former prime minister following a devastating set of results

3. Is Wardley vs Dubois not enough? Simon Jordan’s needless Itauma jabs fail to land ahead of tantalising bout

   Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois’s final face-off was led by a presenter whose efforts to create extra drama were unnecessary and unsuccessful

4. Wardley vs Dubois: Start time, undercard and how to watch fight tonight

   Heavyweights Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois meet in a huge, all-British title fight

5. Wardley vs Dubois LIVE: Start time, undercard, fight updates and results tonight

   Fabio Wardley defends the WBO heavyweight title against fellow Briton Daniel Dubois, with fans and pundits expecting a knockout finish in Manchester

6. Man Utd held to battling goalless draw at Sunderland

   The hosts enjoyed a bright first half with Chemsdine Talbi and Noah Sadiki impressing, while Joshua Zirkzee narrowly nodded over for United.

7. Farage tears apart Starmer’s red wall brick by brick as Labour heartlands decimated

   Labour suffered bruising losses across its northern heartlands as Nigel Farage hailed a ‘historic shift in British politics’. After these local elections, does the party have any strongholds left? Dan Haygarth explains

8. Bournemouth move step nearer European football after battling win over Fulham

   The Cherries are now 16 league games without defeat following Rayan’s winner.

9. Liverpool’s insipid draw with Chelsea epitomises the incoherent nature of their season

   Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea: Ryan Gravenberch’s opening goal was cancelled out by Enzo Fernandez in the error-strewn clash at Anfield

10. Trump gave $6.9M no-bid contract to his ‘pool guy’ to repaint reflection pool under ‘urgent’ exemption

    President Donald Trumpused a government exemption to give a $6.9 million no-bid contract to his “pool guy” to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to an ocean-blue color after complaining it “never looked great.”