After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. This time, it's team of the season. Do you agree with his choices?

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• Mercedes lock out front row; Russell fastest by 0.068

• McLaren’s Norris third and Piastri fourth; Hamilton fifth

George Russell took pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix to set up a fascinating battle with his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli who was in second in Montreal, after the pair endured a feisty flashpoint having clashed with one another on track in the sprint race that preceded qualifying.

Russell put in an inch-perfect lap of the circuit Gilles Villeneuve, as the very last of the cars on track to steal it at the last in what was a gripping session and ultimately beat his teammate by just six-hundredths of a second and ensure Mercedes maintain their unbeaten record of five poles from five races this season.

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Even the most dedicated Hull City fan could not have envisaged their season ending like this, with Wembley glory and a return to the top flight.

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TV presenter who became a household name for her sunny broadcasts from holiday destinations in ITV’s Wish You Were Here

Long before people scanned Tripadvisor or started booking their own holidays, they looked to TV travel shows to tell them where to go, and foremost among these was Wish You Were Here …?, fronted by Judith Chalmers. A triumph of middlebrow escapism, the show ran on ITV for nearly 30 years, from the early 1970s to the early 2000s.

Chalmers, who has died aged 90, was the welcoming, lightly glamorous face of Wish You Were Here, on which she was part champion of “abroad” and part consumer watchdog, balancing those roles with a warmth that made her one of the most admired and accomplished broadcasters of her generation. In many years’ worth of globetrotting – from African safaris to US theme parks to funiculars in the Alps – she never lost her poise. TV travel royalty was how she was widely regarded.

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Music is banned on Wednesdays on island of Stromboli where Rolling Stones frontman was celebrating wrapping a film

Police on an Italian island stopped a party attended by Mick Jagger – because music is banned on Wednesdays.

The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, the volcanic island among Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, for the production of Three Incestuous Sisters, a film by the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher in which he stars.

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The latest series culminated on Thursday with a dash through snow-covered Hatgal in northern Mongolia.

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Aston Villa's Europa League win against Freiburg keeps alive the Premier League's chances of having six teams in next season's Champions League.

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