Jan 24, 2026; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in action against Taylor Fritz of United States in the third round of the menís singles at the Australian Open at John Cain Arena in Melbourne Park. Mandatory Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images
Stan Wawrinka wasn’t acting his age on Wednesday during a first-round victory over Serbia’s Hamad Medjedovic in the first round of the Open Occitanie on Wednesday in Montpellier, France.
The 40-year-old Swiss veteran prevailed 7-6 (3), 6-4 to become the oldest man to win an ATP Tour indoor match since 1980 (excluding the Davis Cup). The last player older than Wawrinka to log an indoor win was Ken Rosewall, then 45.
A wild-card entrant who is ranked 113th in the world, Wawrinka won despite putting just 38% of his first serves in play. He saved four of the five break points he faced.
Two seeded players lost their second-round matches.
Tomas Machac of the Czech Republic, the third seed, trailed France’s Arthur Gea 6-3, 4-5 before retiring because of a knee injury. Adrian Mannarino rallied past fifth-seeded Ugo Humbert 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4) in an all-French matchup.
Eighth-seeded Aleksandar Kovacevic of the United States overtook 16-year-old French qualifier Moise Kouame 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-2 in first-round action. Also earning first-round wins were Italy’s Luca Nardi and the U.S. qualifier Martin Damm.
Point-and-shoot cameras used to be a huge deal, and while DSLRs and later mirrorless cameras have definitely stoeln the spotlight in recent years, the humble point-and-shoot never really went away. Canon’s PowerShot line quietly introduced millions of people to photography, and in 2026, that compact legacy turns 30 years old. Canon is marking the milestone with a special edition camera that leans into nostalgia with additional modern features to bring the fan-favourite up to date.
To celebrate, Canon is releasing a PowerShot G7 X Mark III 30th Anniversary Limited Edition, a familiar compact wrapped in a new graphite finish with subtle design touches that acknowledge three decades of PowerShot history.
A Compact Camera With a Long History
PowerShot began in 1996 with the original PowerShot 600, long before digital cameras were mainstream. Since then, Canon has released more than 200 PowerShot models across multiple series, covering everything from beginner-friendly point-and-shoots to high-end compacts favored by enthusiasts and vloggers.
Today, the PowerShot lineup spans the G Series, V Series, and SX Series, reflecting Canon’s attempt to adapt compact cameras to modern shooting styles, especially video and content creation.
What’s Special About the 30th Anniversary Edition?
At its core, the PowerShot G7 X Mark III remains unchanged. It features a 1-inch stacked CMOS sensor, approximately 20.1 megapixels, and a bright zoom lens that’s been popular with vloggers and travel shooters alike. Video-focused features like Video Blog mode are still front and center.
What is new is the design. This limited edition model comes in a unique graphite-colored body, with a diamond-knurled front ring for a more premium feel. A 30-year anniversary logo on the body marks it clearly as a collector’s item.
Key Features
1-inch stacked CMOS sensor with approximately 20.1 megapixels for sharp, high-quality stills and video, even in tricky lighting
Bright 4.2x optical zoom lens that’s versatile enough for travel, street, and everyday shooting without weighing you down
Video Blog mode, designed specifically for vloggers, letting creators capture smooth, ready-to-post footage with ease
Unique graphite-colored body with diamond-knurled front ring, giving the camera a premium look and feel in the hand
30th anniversary logo on the body, marking it as a collectible edition for fans of the iconic PowerShot line
Bundled accessories, including a Limited Edition Peak Design Cuff wrist strap and 32GB SD card, so you can shoot right out of the box
What Comes in the Box
Canon is leaning into the special-edition feel by bundling the camera with a Limited Edition Peak Design Cuff wrist strap and a 32GB SD card. It’s a small touch, but one that reinforces the idea that this camera is meant to be used, not just displayed.
Pricing and Availability
The PowerShot G7 X Mark III 30th Anniversary Limited Edition is expected to be available in April 2026, with an estimated retail price of $1,299.
Pep Guardiola claims Manchester City are at a disadvantage ahead of the Carabao Cup final (Picture: Getty)
Manchester City will seek permission for a rule change that would allow Marc Guehi to play in next month’s Carabao Cup final against Arsenal.
The January signing from Crystal Palace has slotted straight into City’s starting XI but was ineligible for last night’s comfortable 3-1 semi-final second leg win over Newcastle.
While fellow January recruit Antoine Semenyo was free to play, Guehi was prevented from featuring because he joined City after the first leg against Newcastle took place.
As things stand the England international will have to watch from the sidelines again when his new side locks horns with the current Premier League leaders on March 22, much to Guardiola’s annoyance.
Guardiola acknowledged he did not expect City to be successful, but said they will make their case regardless.
‘Why should he not play? Why not?’ Guardiola said. ‘He’s our player, we pay his salary, we hired him…
Marc Guehi will have to wait to see if he can play against Arsenal (Picture: Getty)
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‘We want to ask. I said to the club we have to ask definitely. I don’t understand the reason why he cannot play in the final of the Carabao Cup in March when he has been here a long time…
‘Of course we are going to ask because it’s pure logic. (But) to change the rule, no way. But we will try.’
Guardiola’s complaints didn’t stop at Guehi’s potential participation, however, and also made reference to his annoyance at having to travel to London for another showpiece occasion.
He said: ‘We’re going to travel to London [for the Carabao Cup final], they [Arsenal] will wait for us there; all the time we have to travel. Never [the opposition] travel to the North of England [for a Final].’
Omar Marmoush was the star for City as he scored the opening two goals of the night before Tijjani Reijnders added a third, all inside 35 minutes.
Guardiola would have been concerned by the number of chances Newcastle created after the break, but with Anthony Elanga’s 62nd-minute strike the only one they converted, City were never overly troubled.
The win continues City’s run of having played at Wembley at least once every season since 2010-11.
Omar Marmoush scored twice in Man City’s win over Newcastle (Picture: Getty)
‘I do not take it for granted,’ Guardiola said. ‘I know how difficult it is. I don’t know how many semi-finals and finals we have played in the FA Cup but it’s really good, and in 10 years five Carabao Cup finals so it’s really good: top, top, top.’
Marmoush, who previously scored a hat-trick against Newcastle, once again grabbed his chance against the Magpies with Erling Haaland starting on the bench.
‘He gives us a special quality,’ Guardiola said of the Egyptian. ‘His pace, his moments in behind, and his work ethic.’
Newcastle arrived in Manchester trailing 2-0 from the reverse fixture and knowing a strong start was essential.
Anthony Gordon’s injury compounded a miserable night for Newcastle (Picture: Getty)
Instead, they found themselves quickly 3-0 down and effectively out of it.
‘(I was) really annoyed with the first half display,’ boss Eddie Howe said. ‘We pride ourselves on being really organised and tactically we want to be able to handle any problem the opposition gives us. That first half we weren’t good enough individually and our duels were off and it gave us huge problems.’
To add to Howe’s worries, Anthony Gordon was forced off before half-time.
‘It looks like a hamstring problem,’ Howe said. ‘I don’t qute know how bad it was but it was enough for him to come off so that’s a big worry.’
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Emma Raducanu vs Maja Chwalinska preview
Emma Raducanu at the Transylvania Open 2026. (Photo: Getty)
Top seed Emma Raducanu will square off against qualifier Maja Chwalinska in the quarterfinals of the Transylvania Open 2026.
Raducanu kicked off her campaign here with a comfortable 6-0, 6-4 win against Greet Minnen. She was up against Kaja Juvan in the second round. It looked as if the Brit would be in it for the long haul after going down 0-5 in the first set.
However, Raducanu was quick to dispel that notion. After losing the first five games of the match, she conceded only one more game for the remainder of the contest to register a 7-5, 6-1 win.
Chwalinska came through the qualifying rounds to book her spot in the main draw of the Transylvania Open. She beat Ana Bogdan 6-3, 6-2 to book a second-round date with seventh seed Olga Danilovic.
Chwalinska dished out a breadstick to take the opening set, only for Danilovic to return the favor with the same scoreline in the second set. Chwalinska found her groove once again in the third set, eventually wrapping up a 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 win.
Emma Raducanu vs Maja Chwalinska head-to-head
This will be the first career meeting between them, so the head-to-head currently stands at 0-0.
Emma Raducanu vs Maja Chwalinska odds
Player
Moneyline
Handicap Bets
Total Games
Emma Raducanu
-400
+1.5 (-1200)
Over 20.5 (-115)
Maja Chwalinska
+280
-1.5 (+500)
Under 20.5 (-120)
(Odds via BetMGM)
Emma Raducanu vs Maja Chwalinska prediction
Maja Chwalinska at the Transylvania Open 2026. (Photo: Getty)
Raducanu overcame a slow start to outplay Juvan in the previous round. She has now advanced to her second quarterfinal of the season, following her previous quarterfinal appearance at last month’s Hobart International.
Competing in the main draw of a tournament for the first time this year, Chwalinska has now advanced to her maiden quarterfinal at the WTA level. She will aim to attain a new milestone for herself by winning three consecutive main draw matches for the first time in her career.
However, with a 3-7 career record against top 100 players, Chwalinska will be a massive underdog in this contest. This is most likely to be another routine win for Raducanu this week.
Pick: Emma Raducanu to win in straight sets.
Emma Raducanu vs Maja Chwalinska betting tips
Tip 1: The match will have at least 18 games.
Tip 2: Raducanu to win more points on serve than Chwalinska.
The NEEWER F700 Field Monitor is a high-quality monitor that would excel at video, macro, fashion, studio, and commercial photography, as well as landscape. How useful would it be for night photography?
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor is able to display quite a few settings, and also boasts a very helpful touchscreen. Photo courtesy of NEEWER.
NEEWER contacted me about reviewing this monitor. I mostly do night photography and do not do the other kinds of photography or video mentioned above, and mentioned this to them. However, they were okay with me reviewing it primarily for night photography. Consequently, this will likely be a very different kind of review than most.
The NEEWER F700 Field Monitor helped me with the composition and focus while creating photos like this panorama photo. Good thing, too, as this is 14 photos stitched together. Joshua Tree National Park, CA.
Note: NEEWER sent us the F700 Field Monitor with two NP-F750 batteries to review and keep. However, this is an independent review, and all thoughts about this product are our own.
Pros
Very bright 2000-nit display, which is highly beneficial for day use outdoors
Mounts on a camera rig, tripod, or cage with 1/4″ screws and a cold-shoe mount included
Helps expose and focus accurately, especially beneficial for video applications
Includes 15 built-in 3D LUTs you can easily toggle to preview different looks straight away
You can import your own 3D LUT files via an SD card, giving you flexibility to preview custom or camera-specific looks
Various cables included
Cons
Relatively light plastic build that might not hold up to rigorous or constant use
Battery life could be longer when used at or near maximum brightness, even with two batteries, and the monitor slowly drains power when batteries are attached but not in use
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor — Technical Specifications
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor in action. For portraits – even if they are stuffed animals – the F700 is extremely useful, especially in relatively low light, as this was here.
All technical specifications for the NEEWER F700 Field Monitor are from the official NEEWER website.
Power Input/Output: 5.5mm DC Input Interface: DC- 12-26V (cannot be used as a dummy battery when in low voltage output) 2.5mm DC Output Interface: DC 8.4V (can connect a dummy battery power cord to the camera via the DC power output interface, significantly extending the camera’s battery life)
Type C Input Interface: Supports 5V/3A and higher fast chargers or portable chargers (3A output)
I was reviewing this primarily for field use in night photography to see how it would help with focusing. With or without focus peaking, would this 7″ screen make it far easier to nail stars, distant lights, or foreground edges than a tiny camera LCD? Would it be practical to bring into a bag and set up in the dark?
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor — Ergonomics and Build Quality
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor in action at night, Joshua Tree National Park, California.
The ergonomics were about what you might expect since it’s a monitor. The buttons are easy to find and push in normal daylight. The included hot shoe adapter was easy to use. I was able to tilt the monitor up to 180 degrees.
Panorama photo while created while using the NEEWER F700 Field Monitor, Joshua Tree National Park, California on a bright evening near a full moon.
Build Quality
The F700 Field Monitor is an entry-level field monitor, although it does support custom LUTs, which helps separate it from other entry-level monitors near its price point. However, you cannot expect the F700’s build quality to match that of higher-end professional monitors costing several times more—and it doesn’t. It has a plastic feel. Although I was not about to do a Photofocus Bounce and Drop Test, I would not want to drop this from several feet onto a hard floor. However, I would be willing to test it in the field.
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor — In the Field
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor in action at night, Joshua Tree National Park, California.
The first test was to manually focus the camera on a couple of stuffed animals in a dimly lit room. I was able to set up everything with ease and focus on the animals. There was no noticeable lag between the camera and the monitor, and the colors were rendered quite well.
Next, I tested the monitor in dusty Joshua Tree National Park on a moonlit evening. With night photography, it’s not always easy to see what you’re doing on the much smaller camera LCD. Especially since I began wearing glasses for nearsightedness, I’ve had to take them off to see the LCD better. Would the field monitor help me nail focus on stars, distant lights, or foregrounds? Would it make the composition process easier?
In a word, yes. Focusing on virtually anything—stars, foreground subjects, textured rocks, Joshua Trees, etc.—was considerably easier. And I was able to easily see what the camera saw, making composition much easier. I could also see potentially distracting elements on the periphery far more easily. It felt luxurious, as if I were being pampered.
However…
Bright, bright, bright…
The field monitor is bright. For most people, this would be a bonus—you can see everything even in broad daylight, which was certainly the case when testing it around my house.
At night, however, even when dimmed as low as it will go, it’s still bright. And this was during a nearly full moon. On a dark night photographing the Milky Way, this would be distractingly bright.
Most night photographers dim their LCD screens heavily. But even then, this would be too bright for most applications. For night use, there are limited scenarios in which this would work well, which we’ll discuss below.
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor with two batteries. The batteries last quite some time when using at the dimmest setting, as I was, but had a noticeable drain when stored while attached to the F700. Photo provided by NEEWER.
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor — “useful for night photography and more”
NEEWER F700 Field Monitor in action at night, Joshua Tree National Park, California.
For night use, the best applications would be:
Indoors at night (abandoned buildings, warehouses, low-light product or car photography)
Photographing alone
City night portrait sessions
Teaching night photography workshops where you want to show camera adjustments, framing, and settings
Night photography portrait using a handheld flash.
As mentioned, I felt almost pampered when focusing and composing. It felt like the difference between watching a video on a smartphone and switching to a computer monitor.
It was also easy to set up at night while the camera was on a tripod. The most challenging part was fitting the HDMI cable into the Pentax K-1 with the L-bracket attached. This was more an L-bracket issue than a monitor issue.
Other Uses
A field monitor like this would be extremely useful for macro photography, which I do occasionally. Making minute focal adjustments with a 7″ screen is significantly easier. Combined with the touchscreen, it would streamline macro work immeasurably.
I mentioned indoor low-light product or car photography as well. Although I did not have the opportunity to test it in those contexts, I’ve done both in the past and can easily imagine it helping substantially.
I can also see the monitor being useful for video, fashion photography, portraits, studio work, landscape, or any scenario in which several people need to evaluate images.
At this price point, it would be useful to have one or two of these for any of these scenarios.
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When structural engineers design a building, they aren’t just stacking floors; they are calculating how to win a complex battle against nature. Every building is built to withstand a specific “budget” of environmental stress – the weight of record snowfalls, the push of powerful winds and the expansion caused by summer heat.
To do this, engineers use hazard maps and safety codes. These are essentially rulebooks based on decades of historical weather data. They include safety margins to ensure that even if a small part of a building fails, the entire structure won’t come crashing down like a house of cards.
The problem is that these rulebooks are becoming obsolete. Most of our iconic high-rises were built in the 1970s and 80s – a world that was cooler, with more predictable tides and less violent storms. Today, that world no longer exists.
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, making the consequences of environmental stress on buildings much worse. It rarely knocks a building down on its own. Instead, it finds the tiny cracks, rusting support beams and ageing foundations and pushes them toward a breaking point. It raises the intensity of every load and strain a building must weather.
To understand the challenge, I have been studying global hotspots where the environment is winning the battle against engineering.
The 2021 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Miami, Florida, killed 98 people. While the 12-storey building had original design issues, decades of rising sea levels and salty coastal air acted as a catalyst, allowing saltwater to seep into the basement and garage.
When salt reaches the steel rods inside concrete that provide structural strength (known as reinforcement), the metal rusts and expands. This creates massive internal pressure that cracks the concrete from the inside out — a process engineers call spalling. The lesson is clear: in a warming world, coastal basements are becoming corrosion chambers where minor maintenance gaps can escalate into catastrophic structural failure.
While the Miami case affected a single building, the historic coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt, is more widely at risk. Recent research shows that building collapses there have jumped from one per year to nearly 40 per year in the past few years.
Not only is the sea rising, the salt is liquefying the soft ground beneath the city foundations. As the water table rises, saltwater is pushed under the city, raising the groundwater level. This salty water doesn’t just rust the foundations of buildings; it changes the chemical and physical structure of soil. As a result, there are currently 7,000 buildings in Alexandria at high risk of collapse.
The historic city of Alexandria, Egypt, is widely affected by the retreating coastline. muratart/Shutterstock
In Hong Kong during Super Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, wind speeds hit a terrifying 180 miles per hour. When strong winds hit a wall of skyscrapers, they squeeze between the buildings and speed up — like water sprayed through a narrow garden hose.
This pressure turned hundreds of offices into wind tunnels, causing glass windows to pop out of their frames and raining broken glass onto the streets below. With 82 deaths and 15,000 homes destroyed across the region, skyscrapers became “debris machines”, even if they didn’t fully collapse.
Supercomputer simulations of Japan’s river systems show that in a world warmed by 2°C, floods of today’s “once in a century” magnitude could recur about every 45 years. With 4°C of warming, they could be every 23 years. These surges in water volume will expand flood zones into areas previously considered safe, potentially overflowing sea walls and flood defences. In a critical region like Osaka Bay, storm surges could rise by nearly 30%.
In the US, a study of 370 million property records from 1945 to 2015 found over half of all structures are in hazard hotspots. Nearly half are facing multiple threats like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes. In the UK, climate-driven weather claims hit £573 million in 2023, a 36% rise from 2022. Annual flood damage to non-residential properties in the UK is also projected to nearly double from £2 billion today to £3.9 billion by the 2080s.
Maintenance is our best defence
Much of the world’s building stock is therefore entering its middle age under environmental conditions it was never designed to face. Instead of panicking or tearing everything down, the solution is to adapt and treat building maintenance as a form of climate resilience – not as an optional extra.
Mid-life building upgrades can help protect our skylines for the next 50 years. Our hazard maps must look at future climate models — not just historical weather — to set new safety standards. Regular structural health monitoring is essential – by using sensors to track invisible stresses in foundations and frames before they become fatal, dangerous situations can be foreseen.
Buildings can stay strong by focusing retrofits on the weakest and most vulnerable parts. This includes glass facades, the underground drainage, the foundation piles and corrosion protection.
Climate change isn’t rewriting the laws of engineering, but it is rapidly eating away at our margins of safety. If we want our cities to remain standing, we must act now – before small, invisible stresses accumulate into irreversible failure.
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Who will win Super Bowl 60 in Santa Clara? The Sky Sports NFL team make their predictions as the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots face off at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday.
NDAMUKONG SUH
Seattle Seahawks 35-28 New England Patriots. I believe Seattle and New England will be a memorable game as it has in previous encounters. However the last matchup ended in a very dynamic, creative and controversial play-call from the Seattle side, I don’t think they will have that mistake or situation again. They will have a dominant defense and a very complementary offense, but understanding the strength of their team is running the football and situational football from the quarterback position.
Seattle win led by Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Kenneth Walker, but the Cinderella Story is and will be the defense led by Leonard Williams in that very talented group. Although Sam Darnold will be recognised he will not be the story behind the success. The New England Patriots are exciting and in the future will be a great team to watch, but this year goes to Seattle and that defense, bringing them back to dominance.
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Phoebe Schecter runs through all you need to know about Super Bowl LX.
PHOEBE SCHECTER
Seattle Seahawks 27-21 New England Patriots. I think the Super Bowl is going to come down to defense. Seattle has been a team that’s been so strong all season long. Their defense has been tremendous and really keeps them in the games a lot of times. What’s going to be fascinating is to see how these Patriots fare against them, because yes, they’ve played three of the top five defenses in these past couple of weeks, but the weather has played a really big role in it. Even if you look at the AFC Championship Game, it wasn’t exactly a runaway game against the Broncos. Previous to that with the Texans, they really did struggle. It was more so the mistakes by the Texans that led them to success. So what I’d love to see for the Patriots defense is for them to almost stick to their identity. They are a defense that work in multiples in terms of they can play zone, man, a bit of area match. They like to change the picture.
You’re going to have to do that against Sam Darnold, confuse him, show him something different at the line of scrimmage, force him into making those mistakes. I think if they’re able to capitalise on that, and then I also think Drake Maye is going to have to be this Patriots team. We’ve seen some ups and downs. He’s not had a very great QB rating, his EPA per play is one of the lowest. He’s going to have to use his legs, and we’ve seen that this defense of the Seahawks have struggled at times with rushing quarterbacks. However, there’s only been seven design QB runs against them all season long, so perhaps mixing some of that in. And then Sam Darnold, what’s fascinating with him is you’re going to throw the ball to Jaxon Smith-Njigba, you’ve got to be able to stop him. And you’ve got to then be able to cover because Sam has a great offensive line that protects him.
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Highlights of Super Bowl XLIX where the New England Patriots met the Seattle Seahawks in 2015.
NEIL REYNOLDS
Seattle Seahawks 31-20 New England Patriots. The Patriots have done an admirable job in turning their fortunes around and I think this is the start of good times ahead. Drake Maye and the offense should re-awaken out of the snow, but they face a formidable foe in Seattle’s defense. The Seahawks can also score points with Sam Darnold looking to write an NFL fairytale. With him being helped by Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Kenneth Walker, I see a win for a Seahawks team gathering up a head of steam. Seattle 31, New England 20.
HANNAH WILKES
Seattle Seahawks 27-18 New England Patriots. I think we’ve got a great matchup on our hands. Two great defenses and two great offenses, but where I think it is won or lost is the fact the Seattle defense is so elite they will make it too hard for the Patriots to keep up with Sam Darnold and what he has the Seahawks offense doing. They will contain Drake Maye enough that he will not be able to compete with what Sam Darnold and his offense can do. The New England defense will make it difficult but I just think Seattle are the more complete team with more experience. I think it’s Seattle’s turn to lift the Lombardi Trophy.
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London-born Aden Durde reflects on his journey as he prepares to make history as the first British-born coordinator to coach at a Super Bowl, where his Seattle Seahawks will face the New England Patriots.
OLIVIA HARLAN DEKKER
Seattle Seahawks 31-10 New England Patriots. If Sam Darnold can have a game even close to his NFC Championship Game performance and take care of the ball, this will be over early. They showed creativity and great execution offensively against the Rams, and I think they can take advantage of a leaky Patriots red zone defense. And of course, the dark side defense will make life difficult on Drake Maye and company.
JASON BELL
Seattle Seahawks 25-20 New England Patriots. I’m predicting a defensive battle. The turning point will be a turnover by one of these two defenses and an explosive play vertically down the field from one of the quarterbacks. I’m going with Seattle to make that play with a play-action pass from Sam Darnold to Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
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The best plays from Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold and wide receiver Jackson Smith-Njigba
JEFF REINEBOLD
Seattle Seahawks 24-17 New England Patriots. I like the Seahawks. The Patriots are a great team but Seattle are built for this, battle tested in the NFC West with the ability to win by grinding it out with the run game. Kenneth Walker is a hot running back right now with the ability to bleed yardage and beat you to the edge. Jaxon Smith-Njigba is on another level while Rashid Shaheed, Cooper Kupp and Jake Bobo are complimentary pieces.
The tight end AJ Barner is sneaky good, he’s my X factor and based on last week’s game Darnold seems to be protecting the football better. New England are on a heater right now so I think this will be a close hard-fought game decided on turnovers and the play of both special teams units. In the end Aden Durde, Seattle’s defensive coordinator, will be the second UK-born coach, behind Al Saunders with the Rams in 97, to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
EFE OBADA
I haven’t settled on a scoreline! There are so many key match-ups in this game. We’ve got two outstanding head coaches. One that’s turned the Patriots around in such a short period of time and similarly Mike Macdonald who has put his Seahawks players in good positions. You’ve got the Patriots d-line that has been playing phenomenal all season and then just stepped up another level in the playoffs.
Then we’ve got a Seahawks defense that is just aggressive and just violent and intentional and has a lot of stars, going against one of the youngest stars in the quarterback who is a candidate for MVP. There is Jaxon Smith-Njigba against Christian Gonzalez as well. There’s so much to watch. It’s the cream of the crop, these are the best teams in the league, it’s anybody’s game. It’s going to be so close, both quarterbacks have to protect the ball. I can see it being a very low-scoring game, just because of the strength of the defense.
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Drake Maye may have finally filled the gap left by Tom Brady for the New England Patriots – check out his best plays of the regular season!
CAM HOGWOOD
Seattle Seahawks 27-24 New England Patriots. Mike Macdonald and Aden Durde have orchestrated the stingiest and most stubborn defense in football, and in turn the most complete team in football this season. The Patriots have been outstanding behind a more-than-worthy MVP contender in Drake Maye, but I think Seattle are just that little bit more polished. Matthew Stafford played out of his skin in the NFC Championship Game, and yet clinical Sam Darnold football would prove the decisive remedy. I think that performance was the perfect indication of Seattle’s ability to win in more than one way. The simulated pressures and coverage disguises are the ultimate test of Maye’s field diagnosis, but I think it will actually be the pocket time and pressure that is decisive. Left tackle Will Campbell has struggled in the playoffs, and Maye himself has been guilty of ball security issues; the Patriots cannot afford to play anything but a squeaky clean game. I think it will be tighter than most are anticipating, but it’s difficult to see Seattle falling short.
Watch the New England Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl 60 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Sunday February 8, with coverage under way at 10pm live on Sky Spots NFL ahead of kick-off at approximately 11.30pm.
Ofsted carried out an ‘unannounced’ inspection at the nursery in January
Ofsted carried out an inspection at the pre-school in January.(Image: Getty Images)
A nursery has suddenly closed after Ofsted raised concerns about children potentially being at “risk of harm”. Ofsted carried out an inspection at the Smarties Pre-School and After School Club in Hay Street, Steeple Morden, on January 15.
Following the inspection, Ofsted suspended the nursery’s registration, meaning it has temporarily stopped running. Inspectors said they believed children could be at risk of harm in the nursery.
An Ofsted spokesperson said: “We don’t comment on individual providers. But, I can confirm that we suspended this pre-school’s registration, which is our standard procedure when we have reason to believe children are potentially at risk of harm.”
A Smarties spokesperson confirmed an “unannounced” inspection was carried out in January. The spokesperson added: “We can confirm that the registration of Smarties Pre-School and After-School Club (Smarties) was suspended by Ofsted on January 16, following an unannounced inspection on January 15.
“We fully support Ofsted’s role in ensuring that providers maintain robust safeguarding arrangements and eliminate any risk of harm to children. Following the inspection, Ofsted identified areas where safeguarding arrangements required strengthening.
“The committee is working closely with the local authority to address these matters and to complete the necessary actions as quickly and thoroughly as possible.”
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Jan 24, 2026; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in action against Taylor Fritz of United States in the third round of the menís singles at the Australian Open at John Cain Arena in Melbourne Park. Mandatory Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images 
