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George Mills set a new British record in the men’s 5000m as he finished fourth at the Diamond League in Oslo on Thursday night.

Sir Mo Farah had held the British 5000m record for 14 years after he set a time of 12 minutes and 53 seconds at a Diamond League meeting in Monaco in July 2011.

But Mills, who is the son of former Leeds United and England defender Danny Mills, smashed Farah’s record by over six seconds as he ran 12 minutes and 46 seconds.

The 26-year-old, who represented Team GB in the 1500m at the Olympics in Paris last year, has also become the second-fastest European of all time after Spain’s Mohamed Katir broke Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s record in 2023 with a time of 12 minutes and 45 seconds.

Mills continues to impress this season after he won silver in the 3000m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in March and gold in the 3000m at the British Indoor Athletics Championships in February.

Mills wasn’t the only one who made history in the 5000m race on Thursday night as Nico Young broke the American record by winning the race.

The 22-year-old, who finished 12th in the 10,000m at the Olympics last year, won with a time of 12 minutes and 45 seconds.

Elsewhere, Norwegian Karsten Warholm set a new world record in the men’s 300m hurdles with a time of 32.67 seconds, beating his previous record of 33.05.

The 300m hurdles is not contested at major athletics meets such as the Olympics and the World Championships.

Warholm is also the world record holder in the men’s 400m hurdles and won gold at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, and silver in Paris last year.

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VIKTOR GYOKERES has bluntly broken his silence on his transfer fall-out with Sporting Lisbon chiefs with a brief 22-word statement.

The Sweden striker has reportedly come to blows with Sporting bosses after trying to force through a dream move to the Premier League.

Gyokeres, 27, is allegedly furious with Sporting for going back on their word over a promise to lower his £84million release clause and plans not to play for the club again.

He believes he had a gentleman’s agreement to leave the Portuguese giants for £50million with a further £8million in add-ons, but that claim has been denied by president Frederico Varandas.

The former Coventry striker then reportedly threatened to go on strike while vowing not to play for the club again if they don’t lower their offer.

But Varandas insisted he will not be bullied into letting the Arsenal and Manchester United target move to the Prem on the cheap this summer.

Varandas said: “Sporting will not accept blackmail and insults – you should know me better by now.”

But Gyokeres has now tried to play down the squabble rumours by throwing doubt on some of the reports with a short statement on social media.

He wrote on his Instagram story on Thursday evening: “There is a lot of talks at the moment, most of it is false. I will speak when the time is right.”

It also comes after reports claimed that Arsenal submitted a new bid for Gyokeres on Wednesday, with his agent Hasan Cetinkaya visiting London to fast-track the transfer.

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But Varandas statement also read: “I can guarantee that Viktor Gyokeres will not leave for €60m+10m (£51m+£8.5m) because I never promised him that.

“This game that the agent is playing only makes the situation worse. To this day, Sporting has not had an offer for Viktor, neither today nor last season.”

“It was agreed that Sporting would not demand the release clause at the end of the following season, especially because he was going to be 27.”

The Swede is one of the most in-demand players this summer after scoring a staggering 97 goals in 102 matches for Sporting since joining in the summer of 2023.

Last season, he netted he netted 54 times in 52 outings – including a Champions League hat-trick against Manchester City, while 39 of those goals came in just 33 league games.

Despite United’s interest, Arsenal remain favourites to nab him, with new director of football Andrea Berta a big fan from his days at Atletico Madrid.

Gyokeres has removed any reference to Sporting on his Instagram account, having also got rid of any mention of Sweden and Nike.

He has three years remaining on his contract in Lisbon, but he is determined to take on a new challenge after just two years at the club, where he won the league twice, and completed a domestic double this season.

United boss Ruben Amorim, who managed Gyokeres at Sporting, has since been linked with a shock move for Liverpool and Chelsea target Hugo Ekitike.

MARRIED At First Sight hunk Ross McCarthy has revealed that he has quit showbiz and returned to his day job.

The E4 star has returned to his roots as a painter and decorator following his failed TV marriage.

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Ross shared a call out for his business in which he revealed that he and his team are happy to travel for jobs far and wide.

He appears to be using his fame to drum up interest in the business by committing to doing jobs for his followers across the country.

Appealing for more custom as he returns to his old life, Ross wrote online: “To all my followers who live further away.

“If you’re looking for painting and decorating work done, especially bigger jobs, feel free to DM me.

“I’ve had a few people ask about distance, but it’s no issue now – we’re happy to travel and focus on delivering quality work every time.

“Let’s get your space looking spot on.”

His career u-turn comes just days after he bravely opened up to confirm that he is an alcoholic.

Ross made history on the show as its first deaf groom, but he broke Sacha’s heart after struggling with his anger issues. 

The reality TV star has since turned his life around – and found new love with a girlfriend Magda.

In a powerful message to fans, Ross revealed that he’s 65 days sober and determined never to go back.

In an emotional post, he shared: “For everyone who’s been asking me about this book – what is it, and what’s it done for me – well, here you go. 

“I’m finally ready to share it with the world, because I’m more stable now, and my mindset is stronger than ever.

“So yeah… I’m an alcoholic.

“And I’m proud to say that out loud now, because back then, I couldn’t.”

Ross credited a life-changing book and the unwavering support of his loved ones for helping him on his journey to sobriety.

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AS election manifesto pledges go, it was as ­simple and straightforward as they get: Labour will “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.

No wriggle room there, you might think. Not SOME asylum hotels, ALL of them.

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And, given the current huge annual cost of housing Channel migrants, that would surely save taxpayers money. Simple!

Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad — and expensive — news, but apparently not.

After 11 months in office, Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave a helpful update this week on that vow to the British people during her Spending Review, and added in the teeny-tiny oh-so-insignificant caveat that it wouldn’t actually happen until 2029.

That’s four long years away. It also means many more billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money being thrown away.

After all, the Government is currently forking out more than £4BILLION a year to house illegal migrants, some of whom have arrived on small boats, and even by 2029 asylum costs are STILL predicted to top £2.5billion a year — with or without a hotel room in sight.

After the Tories failed to deliver on their ­promise to stop putting asylum seekers in hotels, we have every right to be cynical.

Indeed, they were happily paying for expensive four-star rooms until that was exposed to widespread public fury.

But even if Labour do actually keep their manifesto pledge by 2029, what does “ending ­asylum hotels” actually mean?

Let’s look at the best-case scenario. Let’s ­imagine a world where Home Office officials go to warp speed to process the massive backlog of asylum seekers who are currently waiting years to learn their fate.

Will that mean we can finally stop paying for their accommodation? Almost ­certainly not.

Although Britain already grants asylum at a far higher rate than most other European countries (indeed, it offers asylum to those who’ve already failed to win it elsewhere in Europe), tens of thousands of claims from ­undocumented economic migrants are still likely to be refused.

So will that mean those failed asylum seekers will be packed off home and finally off our books?

Nope. Unless their own countries agree to take them back and their safety can be guaranteed in places like Iran, Afghanistan or Eritrea, then I’m afraid they will be staying right here.

What about shipping them off to third countries, like Rwanda or Albania, if they won’t go home?

Again, that’s a non-starter under Sir Keir Starmer, whose human rights lawyer chums will have a field day arguing for failed asylum seekers’ rights to a family life in Britain.

Staying right here

If it turns out that the thousands of young men who pay people-smugglers to get on dinghies to come to our shores are NOT in fact all brilliant rocket scientists, brain surgeons and engineers, they will ­probably end up working in low-wage jobs, often in the black economy, needing benefits and will likely remain a drain on taxpayers for the rest of their lives.

Anyway, even if the Home Office could manage to deal with the existing backlog, what are they going to do about the ­thousands of new asylum seekers who are arriving from the beaches of Calais every week?

This year has so far seen the highest ever number of illegal immigrants crossing the ­Channel, with no sign — despite Sir Keir Starmer’s promises — of the smuggling gangs being smashed any time soon.

It doesn’t really matter where these ­people live; once they set foot on our beaches, we will end up footing the bill one way or another

Julia Hartley-Brewer

OK, fair enough, but at least by 2029 we won’t be paying for these new arrivals to live in hotels any more.

True, but they will need to live somewhere.

Unless the Government is secretly planning to send them off to the Falklands or give them all tents and plonk them in a field in the middle of nowhere, that means paying for their accommodation and other living costs.

If officials are not going to pay for hotels, then more and more asylum ­seekers will end up being moved into ­private rented flats and houses in a street near you.

This is already happening in many towns and cities, as companies such as Serco, Mears and Clearsprings have been handed multi-million pound contracts to strike deals with local landlords to house asylum seekers.

Hope we won’t notice

Using our hard-earned taxes, they often pay far above (sometimes even double) local market rents, with guaranteed leases for five years, with all utilities and any other costs paid for by taxpayers, and pushing rents beyond the means of ­countless local ­families.

Getting asylum seekers out of hotels also brings the added bonus that the cost of thousands of individual private rentals are rather easier to hide from the public than enormous Home Office hotel bills totalling billions.

And after the Channel migrants are ­processed and allowed to stay — with or ­without asylum status — they can then be quietly shunted on to the general benefits bill or on to local councils’ housing costs in the hope that we won’t notice or care any more.

Like so many manifestos, the promise to “end asylum hotels” isn’t worth the glossy paper it is printed on.

It doesn’t really matter where these ­people live; once they set foot on our beaches, we will end up footing the bill one way or another for years to come.

We don’t know how many more Channel migrants will turn up this week, this year or by 2029, so we can’t know how much that bill will be.

But the one thing we can say for certain is that Rachel Reeves will be turfed out of the Treasury long before the last asylum seekers are turfed out of their hotel.