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  Eddie Howe, whose Bournemouth play at Tottenham on Saturday, says: ‘Sitting back and putting my feet up and wallowing in it … never.’ Photograph: Zachary Culpin/ZacharyCulpin/BNPS/The Guardian “Y ou hear a lot of players say: ‘Well, the manager put the ball down and stuck it in the top corner.’ … I’m not one of them,” Eddie Howe says, breaking into laughter, halfway through explaining how he agreed to  wear a microphone at a training session  during pre-season in La Manga. The subsequent video offered a fascinating insight into Howe’s thinking, intensity and his hands-on coaching style but that line in self-deprecation is symptomatic of the  Bournemouth  manager’s modesty; he is a workaholic, reluctant to overindulge in the seismic strides the club has made since his first game in charge at Darlington almost 11 years ago. “I think along the way there have been fleeting moments where I’ve gone, ‘That was really good today’ or ‘That was a big moment’. You sort of know as you go

  Three weeks ago Jo Swinson called herself ‘a candidate to be prime minister’. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images Conducting a series of TV interviews inside the bottle-crammed shopfront of a cider manufacturer in the marginal seat of Cheltenham,  Jo Swinson  faced the same question repeatedly: does she regret launching her election campaign by shooting straight for No 10? It is three weeks since the Liberal Democrat leader  called herself  “a candidate to be prime minister”, but since then her party’s poll numbers have slipped, expectations have been dialled back, and there are hints of an inquest into what went wrong. But watching the campaign in action, and speaking to candidates, activists and other Lib Dem insiders, a more complex picture emerges, one where the party is the biggest unknown quantity within what is already the most uncertain election in decades. Given a fair wind, a decent last two weeks of the campaign and – most crucially – enough  Labour  and Conservativ

  The clip begins with the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, saying ‘pointless delay to Brexit’, in footage taken from an archive news broadcast. Photograph: BBC The BBC is demanding the Conservatives take down Facebook adverts featuring footage of its journalists  Laura Kuenssberg  and Huw Edwards, arguing that their inclusion could damage perceptions of the corporation’s impartiality. The paid-for advert uses footage of the BBC’s political editor and the News at Ten host to argue that chaotic debates over Brexit can be avoided if people vote Conservative. The short clip begins with Kuenssberg saying the words “pointless delay to Brexit”, in footage taken from an archive news broadcast. Although the clip gives the impression it was the BBC political editor delivering that judgment, it appears she was actually  quoting Boris Johnson’s comments  from September when he rejected a further extension to article 50. Tories threaten Channel 4 after ice sculpture takes PM

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, said on Thursday that he had no ulterior motive in the ongoing efforts to recover about $62.1bn owed Nigeria by some oil companies. Malami said this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu. The statement was reacting to claims that he had a plan to receive kickback from the Trobell International (Nig) Ltd, the firm engaged by his office to carry out the recovery. It said the recovery effort “was neither propelled by any ulterior motive nor about gratification of any personal desire through any percentage to be given to the recovery agent, but of an unflinching patriotic commitment to get back to the country the revenue it deserves.” Earlier, online newspaper,  The Cable,  had reported that the Presidency had disengaged Trobell from the recovery contract due to the huge amount which the five percent recovery fee to be paid to the firm would tran

Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have long hogged the most popular school holiday slot. Photograph: Stefan Sauer/AFP/Getty Images Germany’s education authorities are locked in a fierce battle over whether the country’s 16 states should be able to determine when they go on holiday. Currently the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are permanently hogging what most believe to be the best school holiday summer slots – between the end of July and the start of September. The other states are locked into a strict rotation system running from June to September. The system was introduced decades ago to ensure that the country’s infrastructure did not grind to a halt as it might if everyone decided to hit the autobahns, railways and airports at once. The rotation system is also meant to ensure a spread of holidaymakers across the season at hotels and holiday resorts, so that the economic benefit of the  Sommerferien-Korridor  – or summer holiday corridor – is maximised. At a recent me

Facebook says it has fixed an issue that left some users in the United States unable to post photos or answer messages on Facebook or Instagram during part of Thanksgiving holiday Thursday. In an update just after 3 p.m. ET, the company said that the issue is fully resolved. "We are back to 100% for everyone," a Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business. The company said earlier on Thursday afternoon that it had identified "an issue in one of our central software systems." Facebook said that   it "caused many people to have trouble accessing Facebook's family of apps," and that it had started to restore access. There were thousands of complaints about both social networks being down as of 10:30 a.m. ET, according to the tracking site Down Detector. Parts of Instagram appeared to be affected, including the news feed being slow to refresh and trouble uploading pictures. The outage on Instagram sparked complaints on   Twitter. Inst