• Sponsorship agreement is largest in women’s game

• Exceeds some men’s Premier League clubs’ shirt deals

The Women’s Super League club London City Lionesses’ new front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with Nike is the largest in the women’s game, according to their American owner, Michele Kang.

The length and value of the deal has not been disclosed but sources close to the WSL club are hailing it as a gamechanging moment and Kang claims that it even exceeds some men’s Premier League clubs’ shirt deals.

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Morgan Gibbs-White was left out of England's World Cup squad - will his continued good form be impossible for Thomas Tuchel to ignore?

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President’s order strips nearly 3m acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, sacred tribal sites, of safeguards

Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company, has joined a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision to significantly reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, removing protections from nearly 3m acres.

In July, the president approved the reduction of the sites by 90%, clearing the way to open the land to oil and gas companies. He argued in his proclamations that doing so would allow lands to be “put to a higher-priority use” and that they contained critical minerals important to “ resource independence …[and] national security”.

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President Donald Trump said he was not a fan of the couple and added that they treated the Royal Family with "great disrespect".

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It was a match between two disjointed sides, two sides trying to carve out new identities following the drop into the Championship. West Ham won thanks to a bit of luck, a degree of resolve and, crucially, a sharpness in front of goal that took them away from Wolves and reduced the pressure on Nuno Espírito Santo, for a few days at least.

First-half goals from Divine Mukasa and Jarrod Bowen, from the penalty spot, were complemented by two more after the interval, as Mukasa secured his second alongside a goal for Konstantinos Mavropanos. The defender doubled up, too, albeit by scoring at his own end, as Wolves tried to claw their way back into contention, and the visitors could also claim a decent goal from Marshall Munetsi. For all their obvious technical ability, however, César Peixoto’s side lacked the hosts’ sang froid at the crucial moments and that proved the decisive factor.

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Manchester City sign winger Iliman Ndiaye from Everton in a deal worth up to £65m.

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Two icons share cake and take us on a touching trip down memory lane. Dench is mesmerising, and McKellen is such a devilish guest that he’ll make you weep and giggle too

I am writing this in the wake of Dolly Parton’s death, so I am very much in the mood for the gentle celebration of ageing icons while we still have them. An hour of 91-year-old Judi Dench having tea with 87-year-old Ian McKellen? Sign me right up and I will not so much as breathe heavily in their direction lest anything go wrong.

McKellen – Sir Ian, “Serena” to his friends – navigates the “treacherous” pavement leading to Dame Judi’s fairytale 15th-century home in Surrey, which is as cosy and sparkling as its owner (if anyone is listening, I will take an hour of just Dench, taking us around the house and garden, like the world’s most mesmerising estate agent), and unwraps two lumps of parkin cake to go with their tea. One from Yorkshire, where Dench is from, and one from Lancashire because McKellen was – is – a Burnley (then Wigan, then Bolton) boy.

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