Manchester City's target this season will be to match Manchester United's record of three successive Premier League titles but, despite manager Pep Guardiola playing down their Champions League ambitions, Europe could act as a distraction.

Many managers have spent big in their pursuit of glory, but Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp has adopted a different approach ahead of the new season, trusting his current crop to end the club's long wait for a first Premier League crown.

If Frank Lampard is still Chelsea manager in a year's time it will be because he has succeeded in solving the club's most pressing problem -- how to score without Eden Hazard.

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will have the rare luxury of a "second honeymoon" in the coming season, but the Norwegian knows that this time he has to deliver a sustained upturn in fortunes for England's most successful club.

BORIS Johnson has been urged to step up efforts to strengthen the Union after a poll found a majority of Scots now back independence.

One passenger said it felt 'like a horror film'

The surprise smash of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, Six, will premiere at the Sydney Opera House in January.

The changing face of British retailing will be underlined on Tuesday, when Boohoo Group, the wildly successful online-only fashion business, swoops to buy Karen Millen, one of the high street's best-known names.

"With respect, you haven't answered my question," she said to the Q&A panel after sharing her heartbreaking story about losing her job.

The telly favourite suggested people were selling stories about his relationships