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Erik ten Hag is set to remain Manchester United manager for Thursday’s trip to Porto and Sunday’s visit to Aston Villa, with the club’s executive “calm” regarding his position despite Sunday’s humiliating 3-0 loss to Tottenham. The reverse at Old…

It is, in Patrick Kavanagh’s words, an “apple-ripe September morning”. In the field next door, a handful of swallows, brave in numbers, accost a hovering sparrowhawk high in the sky. I’m hopeful the swallows here will soon disappear and head…

I planted white Canterbury bells (Campanula medium ‘Alba’) in the cut-flower garden one sunny day last week, a task that did my heart good. Almost 100 sturdy baby plants, all raised from a single packet of seed sown in June,…