Stephen Salmieri’s Coney Island in black and white – in pictures

Between 1967 and 1972, Brooklyn-born photographer Stephen Salmieri captured life in Coney Island on film, now the subject of an online exhibition from Joseph Bellows Gallery. Salmieri’s vivid pictures, created with a variety of cameras and black and white film, show storefronts, games, the shoreline and the many characters who existed around them

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Football transfer rumours: Premier League return for Jordan Henderson?

Today’s tall tales are all at sea

Jordan Henderson, remember him? Well it seems the workmanlike midfielder is on the verge of a Premier League return having spent the past 18 months failing to win the Dutch title with Ajax.

Henderson, 35, has not taken up the option of another year in Amsterdam and is now a free agent. Romantic reports of heading back to Sunderland, the club where the England international started his career, have been played down but Henderson is said to have suitors at home and further afield, including Porto.

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Owen Farrell to make Lions tour debut in last chance for players to stake Test claims

  • Farrell among replacements against invitational XV

  • Beirne leads Lions against former Aus-NZ Test players

Owen Farrell will feature in his first game of the British & Irish Lions tour on Saturday after being picked on the bench against an invitational XV comprising players from Australia and New Zealand in what will be the touring team’s final game before next week’s first Test.

The 33-year-old last played international rugby at the 2023 Rugby World Cup before stepping away from Test rugby to “prioritise his and his family’s mental wellbeing” but is now set to play his 19th game for the Lions across four tours.

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Bob Vylan frontman warns ‘you’ll get me in trouble’ after further IDF chants

Crowd at sold-out London gig told ‘every other chant is fine’ amid police investigation into Glastonbury performance

The frontman of Bob Vylan warned his fans to stop chanting against the Israeli military during the duo’s first UK gig since the band’s Glastonbury festival performance.

Pascal Robinson-Foster, who goes by the name Bobby Vylan, told fans at a sold-out surprise gig in London on Wednesday night they could get him in “trouble” after police launched an investigation into the group over comments he made at Glastonbury.

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