As transfer deadline day looms, the most bizarre transfer merry go round may see Arsene Wenger forced to sell Giroud to Premiership rivals Chelsea – something he is determined not to do. Arsenal have agreed a club record fee of £55.4million for Borussia Dortmund’s lightning fast striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, after selling Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United. But the German club insist the deal is only on if they can replace the striker before the transfer window closes on Wednesday. Dortmund...

As the UK economy becomes increasingly automated there are fears that the workforce in the North and Midlands will be adversely damaged, and these areas had a large percentage of Brexit voters. It is thought this will widen the north-south divide in the lead up to 2030. A total of 3.6m UK jobs could be replaced by machines. Of the top ten Mansfield, Sunderland and Wakefield are at the highest risk of having their jobs taken by machines. It it...

Britain could be hit by a hummus crisis due to a global chickpea shortage. Poor crop yields in some areas over the past year has driven down supply, but demand for the primary hummus ingredient remains high. The price of supermarket hummus has leapt by 29 per cent since January 2017, according to analysis by the trade magazine The Grocer. Tasneem Backhouse, managing director of chickpea supplier EHL Ingredients, said: "Demand is strong from every market and currently there isn’t enough...

Rail bosses are investigating after a group of residents apparently chopped down trees on an embankment - to give them a better view. The wooded area above a train line has disappeared after years of locals in large townhouses asking Newtwork Rail to remove them. Locals say their repeated requests to have them chopped down have been declined by officials because the trees stop landslides and are home to bats and badgers. It is thought a group of around ten...

Following a brief rallying call from her frontbenchers, Theresa May is now odds-on to resign in 2018. The beleaguered PM enjoyed momentary support from colleagues last week, but she has come under fire today from her own side as one of her MPs said the “window is closing” on her leadership and her former chief of staff laid into the government’s lack of purpose. A string of Conservatives voiced fresh criticism, casting further doubts on the stability of the prime minister’s...

German car manufacturers have been testing the impact of diesel fumes on monkeys by getting them to inhale them in lab conditions. Health impact research done by EUGT, a body funded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW, has today been denounced by the German government as "abominable" after reports emerged that animals were used to carry out exhaust fumes experiments. In one of the tests monkeys were forced to inhale exhaust fumes from a Volkswagen Beetle car and an older pickup truck...

A cat rehoming centre says for the first time ever all its felines are BLACK - because they don't look good in SELFIES. The rescue shelter is currently looking after 40 moggies - but none of them are ginger, tabby or tortoiseshell. They are all black and centre founder Christine Bayka says it is not because they are traditionally associated with superstition, bad luck or witchcraft. She says they are being rejected by prospective owners because darker cats photograph badly...

  Former Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew could be about to snatch a Newcastle United loan target in this transfer window. Reports have emerged that Daniel Sturridge has cancelled plans to travel north today. According to George Caulkin Newcastle were expecting the out of favour Liverpool striker to travel north this lunchtime. But he hasn’t. West Brom have shown interest in the striker, which could have derailed talks. The news will come as yet more disappointment for Rafael Benítez who has had...

Wannabe David Attenboroughs of the world are in with a chance of living out the Blue Planet II lifestyle after the show's exploration vessel was listed on Airbnb. OceanX's iconic ship, Alucia, played a pivotal role in what is regarded as one of the greatest ever natural world shows. Airbnb and BBC Worldwide have now teamed up to let three ocean lovers experience what it's like to journey 1,000 metres beneath the waves off one of the most beautiful places...