The Prince and Princess of Wales, along with some other famous faces, have congratulated Team GB ahead of the Olympics closing ceremony in Paris.
Celebrities including rapper Snoop Dogg, footballer David Beckham and sports presenter Gabby Logan joined the royal couple in congratulating the team in a video posted on social media.
“Well done for all you’ve achieved, you’ve been an inspiration to us all,” William says in the video.
The US rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been an Olympic hit himself, started the video by saying “greetings loved ones” and ended it with the words “thank you Great Britain, on behalf of big Snoop Dogg, the prince and his lovely wife”.
Kate said: “From all of us watching at home, congratulations to Team GB.”
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Beckham said: “Hey Team GB, we are so proud of you. Congratulations.”
Former US sprinter Michael Johnson said in the video Team GB had done a “good job – though not quite as good as the US”.
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Some of the others who featured in the video include former swimmer Rebecca Adlington, former track and field athlete Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, former middle distance runner Dame Kelly Holmes, presenter and author Greg James and TV presenter Emma Willis.
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The King and Queen also congratulated the team separately, sending their “warmest congratulations” to athletes from Team GB and the Commonwealth for their “outstanding successes” at the Paris Olympics.
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“Your achievements, across so many disciplines, were forged from that invaluable combination of raw talent, true grit and hard toil over many years, burnished these past weeks by sportsmanship and team spirit in the finest tradition of the Game,” said the King.
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The Prime Minister congratulated Team GB, saying in a post on X: “To all our incredible @TeamGB athletes and support staff, well done and congratulations.
“You’re bringing home more than just medals. You’ve inspired a new generation of athletes while entertaining a nation. Thank you.”
Team GB finished the OIympics with 65 medals, including 14 golds, 22 silvers and 29 bronzes, beating their Tokyo total by one.
Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler are just some of the musicians to have called Wales their home.
This week, the talents of the land of song are on full display at one of Europe‘s largest music and poetry festivals, the National Eisteddfod.
But concerns have been raised about the future of the country’s arts sector due to funding cuts.
Proposals from the Welsh National Opera (WNO) would see its orchestra made part-time and musicians’ pay cut by 15 per cent.
More than 11,000 people have signed a petition calling for the proposals to be scrapped.
Image: To paraphrase Dame Shirley Bassey, should the Welsh government be more of a big spender when it comes to the arts? File pic: PA
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‘Can we not save these jobs?’
Llinos Owen, 42, has been sub-principal bassoon at the orchestra since 2022.
Originally from Pwllheli in Gwynedd, Ms Owen was excited about returning to live in Wales.
But she told Sky News she might now have to move elsewhere to continue her career.
“I’m off to Glasgow next week to do an audition for a position up there because there’s not enough freelance work in Cardiff,” she said.
“It’s not like living in London, or the Leeds-Manchester corridor or between Glasgow and Edinburgh where there is a lot of freelance work and more full-time bands that need freelancers.
“In Cardiff, it’s not going to be sustainable for all the members of the orchestra to be able to make up that shortfall in income with more playing work locally.”
Wales’s reputation as the land of song was “hugely” at risk amid cuts to the arts sector, according to Ms Owen.
“Wales, the land of song, such a musical nation, is being left as a kind of cultural desert by a huge under-funding,” she added.
Ms Owen said she wanted the Welsh government to “unlock some emergency funding” to help retain the orchestra at its current capacity.
She added: “Can we not save these jobs until there’s a brighter future on the horizon?”
Image: Llinos Owen
Naomi Pohl, general secretary of the Musicians’ Union (MU), told Sky News the union was “very concerned” and urged the Welsh government to listen to its members and “step in”.
“The shortfall in funding isn’t enormous in the context of Wales’s overall budget for arts and culture but the impact is going to be very significant,” she said.
“When you have new governments, you have new ministers, there’s always an opportunity that somebody will see it differently and hopefully make that change.”
A Welsh government spokesperson said it had “acted to mitigate the full scale of the budget pressures” on the arts sector, but had to prioritise funding “core public services” such as the NHS.
Image: A protest was held by Musicians’ Union members in Cardiff in June. Pic: PA
Cuts seen as ‘inevitable’
Members of MU last month voted in favour of potential strike action. The WNO said it was “disappointed” at the outcome but respected the decision.
It added it had sustained funding cuts and had to make changes to ensure it remained “financially sustainable into the future”.
A spokesperson said colleagues were being supported through the process which they said was “inevitable” due to the savings the company needed to make.
“We are committed to ensuring our long-term future as Wales’s national opera company,” they added.
Sky News approached the Arts Council of Wales for its response but no one was available.
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‘We have to prove we’re the land of song’
Elsewhere, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) announced last month that its junior conservatoire provision would come to an end.
David Ingham, 18, from Swansea, has been a student at the conservatoire for several years.
He said the musical education on offer was something “you can’t get in a school”.
Image: David Ingham
“Going to a junior conservatoire, it makes it so much easier for [young people] to go to a conservatoire for further study because it’s the same sort of education,” he said.
“We might be the land of song, but we have to prove it. We have to have those opportunities.
“Music should be a really important part of our society, and it has been for so many years traditionally. But I think it possibly isn’t so much anymore.
“And it’s just deeply unfair that if you live in London, you have five options for where you’d like to go to study music as a teen or as a child, and in Wales you will now have none.”
Image: Campaigners have been calling on the RWCMD to retain its junior conservatoire provision. Pic: David Ingham
‘The arts scene is on life support’
Bryony Black, 46, is a parent of one of the children who attended the junior conservatoire.
Her 15-year-old son, Solomon, who had a bursary to attend, was working towards grade eight on the violin.
“Unfortunately, the impact on the future of where he is going to go with this is quite dramatic. We don’t really know quite what we’re going to do yet,” she said.
“As far as alternative conservatoire provision, we’re really looking at Birmingham or London and then even with a possible bursary, we’re still looking at hugely increased travel costs. Plus, the additional time that it takes when you’re considering that he was already doing a six-hour day.”
While not being felt for a few years, Ms Black, who lives in Blaenau Gwent, said the impact on emerging professional musicians in Wales would be “drastic”.
“The arts is always the one that takes the first hit but it’s gone from tightening the belt to putting new notches in it and it’s just going to die,” she said.
“There needs to be not just a revival, but it’s like the whole arts scene is on life support at the moment.”
Image: Bryony Black with her son Solomon
Ms Black said there had been “no fight” from within the college to negotiate with the government and to try to secure the provision’s future.
The RWCMD said in a statement that it had not taken the decision to end its weekend youth provision “lightly”.
A spokesperson for the college said a statutory staff consultation was held due to the “challenging financial context currently affecting higher education institutions”.
They added that the current model of weekly activity was “financially unsustainable” but that they would “continue to deliver sustainable project work” for under 18s and have kept the Welsh government “fully briefed” as new proposals are developed.
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The Welsh government said the country’s culture, arts and sports institutions were “an integral part of our society and wellbeing”.
“With an investment totalling £13m between 2022 to 2025, our National Music Service ensures that all young people aged 3-16 are able to access music activities, including instrument and vocal tuition,” the government added.
The Welsh electorate has travelled in one direction for the last 100 years.
Labour always win more votes and seats than their rivals in Wales but, floating our parliamentary bench on a barge across the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, we discover not everything is as tranquil as it seems in this stunning beauty spot.
The 20mph speed limit, wind farms and waiting times on the NHS are all matters raised by people who are not happy with Labour’s record in the Senedd.
The first person we meet is Reuben Jones, who works at the local barge hire company adjacent to the aqueduct.
“I’m a transgender person,” says Reuben. “I’m very unhappy with the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts at the moment. There are a lot of issues with the education system, a lot of problems with the health care system.
“Neither the Conservatives nor Labour have made a concentrated effort to stand up for trans people in the UK.”
Image: Cain Hughes and Reuben Jones
‘Equal society’
Labour have been criticised by JK Rowling for their stance on Transgender issues. The author accused the party of being “dismissive and often offensive towards women fighting to retain their rights”.
Labour have restated their plans to “modernise” the gender transition process, but Reuben feels Plaid Cymru have more to say and “are interested in an equal society and want to stand up for transgender rights”.
“I understand in certain women’s groups concerns about their safety,” Reuben adds. “I do empathise with that. But at the same time, they want to erode the rights of transgender people, which is not the right thing to do either.”
Navigating our green bench across Thomas Telford’s breathtaking aqueduct, the Llangollen Canal narrows to the width of our boat with a sheer drop on one side down to the River Dee which sparkles innocently 120ft below my feet.
Image: Paul Otteson and his wife Susan
Once across to the other side, we find retired project manager Paul Otteson, from Carmarthenshire, a man who loves the Welsh countryside and is angry about plans to build wind farms in Llandovery, where he is from in South Wales. His main concern seems to be what is going to happen with the cabling from the turbines.
“We know we need electricity, but there has to be a better way of doing it,” he says. “Recently, they had a vote in the Senedd, and it was a tie. And the Labour casting vote was against burying cables. So, obviously, Labour are not in my good books at the moment.”
The vote was split between Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru who voted for the more expensive option of laying the powerlines underground and Welsh Labour who voted against that, over concerns it would make the project unviable.
Image: Hilary Thomas
‘Best ideas’
But walking down the same towpath, retired bed and breakfast owner Hilary Thomas says: “We need more electricity. We need more solar panels. We need more wind farms. We need a tidal barrage in Wales down on the Bristol estuary there. Anything that keeps the cost down.”
In her mind, Hilary says she has flip-flopped over whom to vote for and still hasn’t decided who has “the best ideas”.
There have been 25 years of devolution in Wales and Labour have always been the largest party, so just as in the rest of Britain the incumbent Conservatives are being judged for their record in government, in Wales so too are Labour.
As we continue upstream and speak to others, Labour’s record on the NHS comes under attack. Some of their spending is described as “wasteful” but the most common topic of conversation is the roads, which many complain aren’t much faster than the waterways since the Welsh government introduced its 20mph speed limits.
‘Money wasted’
Reaching the Telford Inn we meet master and lady of the house Robert and Sarah Kinton-Chittenden, who are happy, after serving lunch, to take a rest on our bench, which is now providing extra seating in their beer garden.
“Very comfy. I can see why they nod off in parliament,” says Sarah, pressing down on the green upholstery. They talk about lower speed limits impacting on tourism to their pub, failure to tackle immigration and the state of the national health service. “That needs sorting out,” says Sarah.
“Massively,” agrees Robert.
“Because so much (money) went on this 20 mile-an-hour (speed limit), however much it was. I don’t remember the statistics,” says Sarah.
“It’s £35m,” adds Robert.
Image: Robert and Sarah Kinton-Chittenden
“Something that could have been put into our national health. You know, it’s wasted now,” says Sarah.
Robert picks up again: “No doubt they’ll spend another £35m putting it back, so that’s £70m wasted. It could have gone into hospitals and schools. Ridiculous. What a waste of time.”
The Welsh government estimates it would cost £5m to reverse some of the reduced speed limits.
The couple agree with the argument made by Welsh nationalists Plaid Cymru that Wales is owed £4bn to compensate for the decision not to build HS2 all the way to Manchester, which would have helped people travelling to North Wales.
“I do think there needs to be more money put into Wales and we’re talking an extra few billion because of the lack of high-speed trains,” says Robert. “They spent loads of money and it only goes to Birmingham. There’s already a train to Birmingham and it runs every day. Pointless. Ridiculous!”
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Like several of the people we have spoken to along the river, Sarah and Robert haven’t yet decided where their vote will go.
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Our longboat chugs through a constituency that has been swallowed up in the boundary changes, Clwyd South, now distributed among four other constituencies. A long-time Tory target it was finally stolen from Labour by the Conservatives in 2019.
Polls suggest voters in the countryside region, along with the nearby city of Wrexham, will turn back to Labour – but from our short trip down the canal, we have found quite a number of floating voters.
A weather warning for thunderstorms has been issued for England and parts of Wales on Sunday.
The Met Office yellow warning will be in force from 12pm to 8pm and covers hundreds of miles from Milton Keynes in the south, Norwich in the East, Liverpool in the North West and York in the North.
It also covers Birmingham, Manchester, Hull and Nottingham, as well as areas of northeastern Wales, and could bring between 20mm and 30mm of rain in just a few hours.
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“Slow-moving heavy showers and thunderstorms,” will risk difficult driving conditions, homes and businesses being flooded, and lightning strikes, the Met Office said.
This could cause road closures and delays on public transport, the forecaster added.
Image: The Met Office weather warning area on 26 May. Pic: Met Office
Disruptive weather could add to weekend of busy travel
The transport network has already been hit by millions taking to the roads over the bank holiday weekend – and planned rail engineering works.
A Network Rail project has reduced services on the West Coast Main Line due to work around Crewe and Carlisle.
Trains are also being affected by track renewals between Carstairs and Lanark in Scotland, with significant changes to services on the Great Eastern Main Line because of work to build a new station at Beaulieu Park to the east of Chelmsford.
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The worst travel day of the weekend was Friday, however, when the start of the long weekend coincided with the half-term break for many schools.
Trains were forced to run at reduced speed between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton that day after thieves tried to steal signalling cables.
Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, London Northwestern Railway, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Railway passengers suffered delays until the damaged wires were repaired, Network Rail said.
Aviation analytics company Cirium said Friday was the busiest day of the year for UK airports since October 2019, with more than 3,150 departing flights.
Around 8,486 flights were scheduled to take to the skies between Saturday and Monday, with the most popular destinations for UK departures being Dublin, Amsterdam, Palma, Alicante and Malaga.
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Further showers likely on Bank Holiday Monday
Sky News weather producer Joanna Robinson said of the weekend’s conditions: “Rain will turn increasingly patchy on Sunday as it moves northwards, with heavy showers developing from the south. They’ll bring the risk of hail and thunder, with localised flooding possible.
“Bank Holiday Monday will bring further showers, some thundery, but western parts will turn drier later on.
“It’s worth keeping an eye on the forecast, as short-notice thunderstorm warnings may be issued on Sunday and Monday.
“Daytime temperatures will be around average, but it should feel warm in any sunshine.”
Met Office forecaster Craig Snell added: “Overall, it’s a pretty mixed picture, Saturday’s probably the best of the bunch, but there will still be some sunshine around on Sunday and Monday, but we’ll certainly be dodging downpours.
“Watch out for some thunderstorms especially across parts of northern and central England and northeast Wales too.”
The Princess of Wales is not returning to work yet, but remains fully updated on the Early Years work going on in her absence, it was revealed at the launch of a “landmark” new report.
Keen not to distract from the importance of the findings of the Early Years business taskforce, that was set up by the princess last year, a palace spokesperson confirmed that “it should not be seen or reported on as Her Royal Highness returning to work”.
They added: “You all know that early childhood is a huge priority for the princess and so she has been kept fully updated throughout the development of the taskforce’s work and she has seen the report.”
The report is an example of how the work of her Early Years Foundation has continued despite Kate undergoing preventative chemotherapy.
The princess, who “still needs space to recover”, is said to be “excited” by the findings, which claim the UK could reap £45.5bn in economic benefits if firms prioritise early childhood.
It recommends a range of interventions, from creating a culture inside and outside firms that prioritises childhood to supporting parents with greater resources and flexibility in the workplace.
Among the eight-member taskforce are the chief executives of Ikea, NatWest Group and Deloitte.
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Speaking about the report, described as “a major early years rallying call”, Emma Franklin, a director of consulting with Deloitte said: “We’ve established a figure of £45.5bn, which is just immense in terms of value added to the UK economy.
Image: Emma Franklin, a director of consulting with Deloitte
“And that’s three simple things, which is productivity gains of enabling parents who want to work more hours to get back into the workforce and avoiding some of the recruitment retention costs for people who are leaving the workforce, but also in terms of developing some of those really core social and emotional skills in our under fives now that will stand them in such good stead as the future workforce for us in terms of the skills around empathy and resilience and problem-solving.
“I think it’s a really compelling case for change.”
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Sky News visited a baby bank in north London run by Little Village.
Last year they supported 8,500 children, 20% more than the year before, and increasingly working parents are coming in for help.
Thea Jaffe has three children, including eight-month-old Isaac who’ll need to go to nursery when she goes back to work later this year.
Image: Mother of three, Thea Jaffe, is struggling to afford to raise her children
She said: “My rent is £2,000 a month, nursery £3,000. That’s £5,000 right there. I thought I had a good job taking home £2,600 a month after taxes, but apparently it’s not good enough.
“Yeah, it’s really tough. I feel bad about it because I feel like times when I should be enjoying the time with my kids, learning more about who they are, what they care about, what makes them tick. But I’m just preoccupied with like, how are we going to, you know, how am I going to pay our bills?”
Little Village CEO Sophie Livingstone says companies need to step up, and she hopes the influence of the princess will help.
Image: Little Village CEO Sophie Livingstone
“I have no doubt that she will follow through and keep on it with businesses and keep holding their feet to the fire to make a tangible difference,” she said.
“This is just the beginning, in my view. What we need now is to see those commitments coming through, to see that action, because the time is now, the need has never been greater.
“So I’m really grateful to the princess for drawing attention to this. But it’s now time for business to follow through behind her.”
The report has been shared with No.10, the Department of Health and Department for Education, but those involved insist they will not be lobbying government for change, instead showing the societal impact that businesses can help drive.
A woman’s body has been found on a beach in Wales.
Police say the body of Sian Batchelor, 32, was found on a beach near Pennar, Pembroke Dock, on Tuesday evening.
Her family have described her as a “beautiful, funny, lovely person” in a tribute released through police in Pembrokeshire, who are appealing for information.
Officers say they are treating her death as unexplained.
In a statement, Ms Batchelor’s relatives said they were “devastated” by their loss.
“We will treasure the good times we had with her,” they said.
“We would now like time to grieve and would ask to be given privacy in which to do so.”
Dyfed-Powys Police say they are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding Ms Batchelor’s death.
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Officers have asked anyone with information which could help their investigation to get in touch.
The force is particularly keen to speak with people who saw Ms Batchelor, or who were in contact with her, between 25 and 30 April.
A school in South Wales was locked down after a teenage pupil allegedly received threatening messages.
Gwent Police said Ebbw Fawr Learning Community in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, was placed into lockdown at around 10.20am on Friday.
The force confirmed police officers attended the school in Wales, where they remained to provide reassurance.
Police said a boy has been arrested over the alleged threats – which did not take place at the school or the surrounding area.
A spokeswoman for the force added: “We have arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of making threats.
“The arrest did not take place on school premises and was not in the Ebbw Vale area. Our inquiries are ongoing.”
Parents were told about the incident via text messages from the school, that caters for children aged three to 16.
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One of these texts, posted on social media, read: “All students are safe in classrooms and all doors and access points are locked.”
It continued: “The police have arrived and there is no risk inside the building.”
Another message sent to parents said the school is in “partial lockdown” and that all doors were locked with no one allowed in or out.
One boy hid under a desk while they waited to find out what was going on, according to Wales Online.
The incident comes after two teachers and a pupil sustained stab wounds at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on Wednesday.
The 13-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in the dock at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court today.
She was charged with three counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article on a school premises.
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Some roads in Wales are set to go back to 30mph after nearly half a million people called for an end to the national 20mph speed limit.
Ken Skates, the Welsh government’s new transport minister, said “there will be a change” to legislation introduced in September which changed the speed limit on nearly all roads from 30mph to 20mph.
Introduced under former first minister Mark Drakeford, the Welsh government said the reduced speed limit would save lives and help build “safer communities” by reducing the number of collisions.
A petition calling for the removal of the 20mph limit reached 469,571 signatures by 13 March – hundreds of thousands more than the 10,000 required for a petition to be considered for a debate.
Speaking to North Wales Live, the Labour MP said there is “generally universal support” for the speed limit being in place outside of schools, housing estates and hospitals, but acknowledged that many have said “routes that shouldn’t have been included were”.
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“We’ve put our hands up to say, ‘the guidance has to be corrected’,” he added.
“This will enable councils to revert back those routes that are not appropriate. Whether the change will be radical will largely depend on what people want.”
Image: Transport minister Ken Skates said ‘we’ve put our hands up to say, ‘the guidance has to be corrected”. Pic: Tomos Evans
He added he will share more details in the Senedd on Tuesday, saying “we are working to do this as swiftly as we possibly can,” and acknowledged adjusting the speed limits will be costly but not “anywhere near the cost of the rollout”.
Mr Skates then said: “It is about making sure the application is consistent and we bring back a good degree of unity, whereas currently there is discord.”
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It comes after a road sign showing a 20mph limit was among seven “removed illegally” in a Welsh village, which has led to “serious road safety concerns”.
Lee Waters, the minister behind the rollout, also said he would be stepping down and would delete his profile on social media platform X due to abuse in March.
Former Wales rugby international Louis Rees-Zammit has signed for NFL champions Kansas City Chiefs.
The former Gloucester, Wales and British and Irish Lions wing announced in January he was quitting rugby to chase his American football dream.
In a video posted by the Chiefs on X, he said: “Hi Chiefs Kingdom, Louis Rees-Zammit here.
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“Just signed, can’t wait to go and see you all at Arrowhead.”
The Chiefs said on their official website: “The Kansas City Chiefs made an international splash on Friday with the addition of former European rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit to the roster.”
Rees-Zammit had made 32 appearances for his country’s national side, and scored 70 points.
But the 23-year-old joined the NFL’s international player pathway ahead of a Six Nations tournament that saw Wales take home the wooden spoon.
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Earlier this month, he told Sky News making it in the NFL would be the “most proud moment of [his] life”.
He visited several NFL franchises, including the New York Jets, Cleveland Browns and Denver Broncos, but has settled on the Chiefs, who have won the last two Super Bowl titles and three of the last five, inspired by star quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce.
His dream moved a step closer when he impressed during last week’s pro day that forms part of the international player pathway.
Scouts from all 32 NFL teams watched him go through his paces at the event at the University of South Florida.
Image: Louis Rees-Zammit played 32 times for Wales. Pic: PA
Rees-Zammit clocked 4.43 seconds in his 40-yard dash, a 9ft 7in broad jump and 29-inch vertical jump.
He will try to win a place on Kansas City’s final 53-man roster for the 2024 season, which begins in September.
Running back and wide receiver are his designated positions, but if he does not make it, he is likely to spend his first season on Kansas City’s practice squad, the BBC said.
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The Chiefs added: “Rees-Zammit participated in the international player pathway programme workout earlier this month, which provided the former rugby star with an opportunity to show NFL scouts what he could do.
“His workout included a 4.44-second 40-yard dash, which would have ranked fifth among tailbacks at the 2024 NFL scouting combine.”
The Princess of Wales has been filmed smiling and looking happy while out shopping with Prince William.
The couple were seen strolling through a car park on Saturday, in video published by The Sun, which said they were at Windsor Farm shop, close to their home.
Kate, 42, was wearing a hoodie and leggings and carried her own shopping, while the Prince of Wales was dressed in a blue coat, jeans, trainers and a baseball cap.
Image: The picture that was edited by Kate
None of their three children, 10-year-old Prince George, Princess Charlotte, eight, and five-year-old Prince Louis were with them.
The paper quoted shopper Nelson Silva, who took the video, and said they appeared “super relaxed”, while Kate looked “happy and relaxed”.
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Another eyewitness who watched the footage said it was “just a woman shopping with her husband on a Saturday afternoon just like thousands of other couples across the country”.
The couple have, in recent weeks, faced social media speculation surrounding Kate’s health and whereabouts.
The duchess spent time in hospital in January for abdominal surgery, shortly after her 42nd birthday.
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Kensington Palace later confirmed the surgery was successful and she would be taking time to recover at home in Windsor.
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Earlier this month, the princess apologised “for any confusion” after it emerged a Mother’s Day photograph of her with her children had been edited before being sent to picture agencies.
Kate said: “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.
“I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared caused.”
The image was circulated by a number of picture agencies on the day, before Reuters, Associated Press (AP), Getty Images and Agence France-Presse (AFP) told media outlets to “kill” the photo from their systems and archives.
A week ago, the prince and princess were seen in public for the first time since the controversy, when the prince went on to attend the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, but Kate did not.
Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s individual profiles on the Royal Family website have been replaced with a combined one which is further down the page.
The joint profile includes some of the work they have done, such as Prince Harry’s Invictus Games and Sentebale charity in Lesotho, and Meghan being a patron of several organisations.
