Simply Limitless, which offers a lifeline to residents across Wyre Forest, is still desperately searching for a new site to run its vital services after being told the licensing of the building had changed and a new tenant is moving into the site on Walter Nash Road.

The change to the tenancy agreement means the charity needs to leave by August 8, which is only a year after first moving to the site.

The charity has now issued an update for its users and advised it will be temporarily relocating all its activities and services to Baxter College on Habberley Road in Kidderminster.

The relocation is a short-term move whilst it works to find a new home.

Simply Limitless said: “As of Monday (July 28), we will be temporarily relocating all our activities and services to Baxter College, Habberley Road in Kidderminster.

“This is a short-term move whilst we continue working to find a new home. All current timings for all our groups and activities will remain the same. Similarly, if you are receiving one-to-one support, the time you meet with one of our team will remain the same.”

“Our plea stays for help and support: Do you own or have access to a property we can call home? Could you support us with donations or fundraising towards all of the additional costs we will have to pay in relocating?

“We have been blown away by the kind words and encouragement received. Thank you for your support.

“Any questions or concerns please give us a call on 01562751144.”

The charity, which has been running for around 12 years and supports people of all ages, offers mental health support and exercise classes as well as combating loneliness and providing job support.

The temporary relocation comes as the charity continues to urgently ask businesses and landlords for help in finding a new space for its services.

Paul Raper, CEO of Simply Limitless, said volunteers, staff and those who use the services are “devastated” at having to move and the loss of such a vital community hub will have a huge impact on hundreds of people.

He said: “The charity is a lifeline for so many people across Wyre Forest. We’ve helped support people through mental health struggles and also helped get people back to fitness from a wheelchair.”

Mr Raper said they need a hall for exercise groups as well as rooms for counselling.

The 67-year-old added: “We appreciate that not all spaces will be suitable for the charity, but it would mean the world to our staff and service users if we could find a new site. We would be incredibly grateful.”

If you can help the charity or know a suitable venue in Wyre Forest then please contact Simply Limitless by emailing info@simply-limitless.org or call 01562 751144.

To find out more about Simply Limitless visit www.simply-limitless.org/

Real Madrid have brought in Dean Huijsen this summer to the tune of €60m, but are still keen on strengthening the centre-back position either this year or next. The likes of David Alaba and Antonio Rudiger are moving on, in all likelihood next season, and there is uncertainty over how Eder Militao will respond after cruciate ligament injuries in successive seasons.

Los Blancos have thus been strongly linked with Ibrahima Konate as a result, who is high on their list of options for next summer – or this one for the right price. The Frenchman is a free agent next summer, and has thus far rebuffed Liverpool’s attempts to sign him to a new deal.

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Real Madrid remain interested in William Saliba

It is not long since William Saliba was being cited as Los Blancos’ top target for this summer though, even if that talk has since eased over cost concerns. Nevertheless, Diario AS say that Real Madrid remain very interested in Saliba. Arsenal are doing their best to extend his deal, but if he does not do so, Real Madrid could look to capitalise next summer. They have continued scouting the 24-year-old.

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Champions League performance against Mbappe

Real Madrid had a chance to watch Saliba up close in the Champions League, and were mightily impressed by how he handled Kylian Mbappe during the tie. His compatriot saw little of goal in the second leg, and Saliba’s performances only increased Los Blancos’ interest in him. It is worth remembering that Real Madrid have already been in touch with his agents to establish the parameters of personal terms.

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Real Madrid reliant on contract negotiations

In both the cases of Konate and Saliba, Real Madrid are hoping that they will not sign new deals, in essence laying the groundwork for Los Blancos to strike affordable deals. If Liverpool and Arsenal can agree new contracts with their star defenders, then Real Madrid are unlikely to pursue a move at high price. As evidenced by the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold though, Los Blancos exert a strong pull over players.

NBCUniversal, which shuttered NBC Sports Network in 2021, is considering launching a sports-focused cable channel that would carry programming available on streaming service Peacock.

The venture is being discussed but is not certain to move forward, a person familiar with the situation told Deadline. It comes at a sensitive and dynamic time for an increasingly sports-centric TV business.

The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the deliberations, said they could result in a launch as soon as this fall. That timing would make sense given NBCU will be kicking off an 11-year rights deal with the NBA, with some of those games bound for Peacock. While the streaming flagship has grown by foregrounding sports, it has caused some fans to grumble that it has locked up exclusive rights to NFL football, Premier League soccer and the Olympics. Peacock also just raised its monthly price by a hefty $3, with its $10.99 cost now tops among ad-supported outlets.

Cord-cutting has ravaged the traditional bundle, forcing sports stalwarts like ESPN and Fox to roll out subscription streaming offerings in time for the 2025 football season. NBCU’s move would go in the other direction, but it acknowledges a reality sports fans know all too well, which is that the explosion of streaming and the entrance of non-traditional players like Roku, Netflix and YouTube into the ranks of rightsholders is causing mass confusion.

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Against that backdrop, the objective of a major player like NBCU with a new cable outlet would be to make it possible to watch games however you pay for them, whether via traditional pay-TV or direct-to-consumer streaming. NBCU and other cable network programmers also are in the process of reorganizing that distressed part of their portfolios, with Comcast spinning off Versant, which will be a home for NBCU cable apart from Bravo. Warner Bros. Discovery is making a similar move and A+E Global Media is exploring a sale of its holdings, though they do not encompass sports.

The Journal said it is not yet clear where the new channel would be offered to consumers within the packages offered by pay-TV providers. One of the points of friction for customers has historically been the “tiering” of sports, with hefty price tags often assigned to sports.

Pure streaming deals for sports remain rare, though YouTube will carry its first NFL game this fall. Even a game-changing deal like Apple’s venture with Major League Soccer, which brought MLS games to Apple TV+, was accompanied by a linear deal with Fox.

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii — The U.S. Army’s top civilian leader said Tuesday that he wants to move more quickly on an agreement that will allow the military to continue using the only large-scale live-fire training range for ground forces in Hawaii.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said he discussed the issue during a meeting with Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Monday. The Army leases a key part of Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island from the state, and its contract to do so expires in 2029. It wants to be able to continue using the land so it can quickly send troops from Hawaii to Asia and the Pacific, something that is growing in importance as China becomes more assertive particularly regarding Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own territory.

A May public hearing on whether to extend the lease generated hours of testimony against allowing the Army to stay. Many Native Hawaiians and environmental activists, who are upset with the U.S. military’s history of damaging Hawaiian lands with target practice and fuel leaks, said they wanted the Army to return the land to the state.

Driscoll told reporters the Army needs the Pohakuloa land, which sits on a rocky plateau about 6,200 feet (1,890 meters) above sea level between the Big Island’s tallest volcanoes, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

“The world is changing. We all know this. The threat in Indo-Pacom is more real than ever before,” Driscoll told reporters, referring to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, which oversees military operations in Asia and the Pacific.

He said he wanted a more aggressive timeline “to bake out these negotiations in the coming months, rather than waiting until 2027, 2028 and 2029.”

“This land matters to the United States Army. We have got to be able to train here.” Driscoll said.

Driscoll said he asked Green’s office for a list within the next few weeks of things the Army can do to help the community.

“What we are hoping to do is figure out ways where we, the Army, can continue to contribute to a community that has given so much to our Army and so much to our nation, while at the same time acknowledging the very real world threat that we are facing in the Indo-Pacific,” Driscoll said.

The Army says other live-fire training areas in Hawaii are too small to accommodate battalions and brigades. And commanders say they wouldn’t be able to deter potential adversaries in the Indo-Pacific if they have to spend extra time transporting troops to the region from U.S. mainland training ranges.

Green said he spent significant time on Monday speaking with Driscoll and his team.

“We will be exploring possibilities on the military leases together in the coming days and weeks, and he now better understands how important it is to us to work together for the good of Hawaii’s people and our land, while we all work together to protect our country,” Green said in a statement.

The governor said he updated Hawaii’s congressional delegation on the meetings. Green said he would get the community’s input “as we move forward.”

U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda, a Democrat whose district includes rural Oahu and the Big Island, has said she wants the military to help increase Hawaii’s housing supply and bolster Hawaii’s water and sewer infrastructure.

Healani Sonoda-Pale, a community organizer with the Native Hawaiian sovereignty group Ka Lahui Hawaii, said the state needs to look at how the Army is managing these lands. She said it would be irresponsible for negotiations to bypass that process.

“There shouldn’t be any backdoor discussions regarding these leases,” she said.

Driscoll visited Hawaii during a Pacific trip that will also include stops in Australia and the Philippines.

He spoke to journalists in front of two HIMARS rocket launchers, which are designed to deliver precision strikes to long-range targets. Hawaii-based soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division are due to receive 16 of the launchers, which the U.S. also supplied to Ukraine to help it defend against Russia’s invasion.

Federal judges in New Jersey declined Tuesday to appoint Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in the state, to continue serving in that role, delivering a resounding rebuke to one of his administration’s most polarizing Justice Department appointees and teeing up a showdown over who would lead the office.

A panel of the state’s U.S. district court judges made the announcement in a brief order that did not offer any explanation for its decision. The order — signed by Renée Marie Bumb, the chief federal judge in the state — appointed Desiree Leigh Grace, a career prosecutor whom Habba had named as her first assistant, as her replacement.

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But within hours, top Justice Department officials announced they had fired Grace and reinstated Habba “pursuant to the president’s authority.”

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“This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the president’s core Article II powers,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. Bondi referred to the constitutional provision that grants presidents broad decision-making authority, which the Trump administration has cited as justification for many of its most controversial moves.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche accused the panel led by Bumb, an appointee of President George W. Bush, of acting like “activists” and enacting a “left-wing agenda.”

The rapid-fire developments threw the leadership of the Garden State’s top federal law enforcement agency into chaos and raised the prospect of yet another showdown between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary. As of Tuesday evening, it was not clear whether — or how — the judges would seek to enforce their order or whether Grace’s firing necessarily invalidated their appointment of her.

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Grace had worked as a line prosecutor in the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade before rising to positions leading the office’s violent crime unit and its criminal division. Habba selected her as her deputy earlier this year.

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Habba — a former personal lawyer for Trump and a prominent surrogate for him on the campaign trail — did not return requests for comment Tuesday.

Her contentious, roughly three-month tenure as acting U.S. attorney has seen her open investigations into the state’s Democratic governor and attorney general as well as file felony assault charges against a Democratic member of Congress. Trump has since nominated her for a full four-year term in the role.

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But the Senate has not yet acted on the nomination, and New Jersey’s senators Cory Booker (D) and Andy Kim (D) have said they won’t support her over concerns that Habba has acted as a “partisan warrior” instead of a fair-minded arbiter of justice.

The judges’ order Tuesday to replace Habba said it was effective as of that day, or upon expiration of her appointment as acting U.S. attorney. But even that question over timing set off a dispute with the Justice Department earlier Tuesday.

Under federal law, interim appointments for U.S. attorney posts last 120 days or until the Senate confirms a presidential nominee to the role. If a nominee is not confirmed within that window, district court judges are empowered to appoint someone to serve until that happens.

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In a March 24 social media post, Trump named Habba to lead the New Jersey office on an acting basis, saying the decision was “effective immediately” — suggesting that period ended Tuesday. Blanche, however, asserted Habba’s term officially expires at 11:59 p.m. Friday, pegging the timeline instead to when she was sworn in on March 28.

“The district court judges in NJ are trying to force out [Habba] before her term expires,” he wrote on X. “Their rush reveals what this was always about: a left-wing agenda, not the rule of law. When judges act like activists, they undermine confidence in our justice system. Alina is President Trump’s choice to lead—and no partisan bench can override that.”

The judges’ decision not to reappoint Habba while her nomination remains pending, while unusual, is not without precedent.

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Last week, district court judges in the Albany-based Northern District of New York declined to permanently appoint acting U.S. attorney John A. Sarcone III to the role after the expiration of his 120-day interim term.

Justice Department officials responded by appointing Sarcone as a “special attorney to the attorney general” as well as the office’s first assistant U.S. attorney, a move the department said “indefinitely” granted him the authority of acting U.S. attorney.

Like Habba, Sarcone lacked significant prior experience as a prosecutor when Trump appointed him to his position. His immediate previous job was as a regional administrator for the General Services Administration, which manages government-owned properties.

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Sarcone’s tenure was marked by several unusual incidents, including in June, when he said a knife-wielding undocumented immigrant from El Salvador had tried to kill him outside an Albany hotel. Surveillance footage later released by investigators showed the man did not come close to Sarcone with his weapon, and charges brought by local prosecutors were downgraded from attempted murder to a misdemeanor.

This month, Sarcone told a local TV station that the district’s judges had extended his tenure as U.S. attorney. Within hours, the district’s judges issued a statement saying they had made no such decision and, days later, they opted not to reappoint him.

Before Trump appointed Habba in New Jersey, she was heavily involved in his legal matters in New York, including defending him against a defamation lawsuit brought by author E. Jean Carroll.

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Throughout that trial, a senior New York judge criticized Habba for her ignorance of court procedures and at one point threatened to jail her for interrupting the proceedings and rebuffing court orders.

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Her tenure as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey was no less contentious. Shortly after her appointment, she told a right-wing news outlet that, in her role, she aimed to help “turn New Jersey red,” referring to the color typically associated with Republicans.

“I think New Jersey is absolutely close to getting there,” she said. “So, hopefully, while I’m there, I can help that cause.”

In April, she told Fox News her office had launched an investigation of Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and Attorney General Matthew Platkin over New Jersey’s directive to local law enforcement not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

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Then in May, prosecutors under her direction filed charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. LaMonica McIver, both Democrats, after a scuffle erupted with immigration agents during a congressional oversight visit to a privately run detention facility in Newark.

Though Habba’s office continues to pursue a felony assault case against McIver — charges the congresswoman’s lawyers have derided as an act of “political retaliation” — prosecutors quickly and without explanation dropped trespassing charges they’d filed against Baraka.

The federal magistrate judge overseeing the case blasted Habba’s about-face and questioned why prosecutors had brought the charges in the first place, given their quick decision to abandon them.

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“Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas,” U.S. Magistrate Judge André M. Espinosa said. “Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all.”

Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond who follows presidential appointments, said he’d never seen anything like the Justice Department’s maneuvers to keep Sarcone and Habba in place and said they could complicate federal prosecutions in both districts.

“If a person purporting to act as the U.S. attorney signs a criminal complaint or an indictment but lacks the authority of the office … defense counsel may choose to challenge that action,” he said.

The White House said Tuesday that Habba enjoys Trump’s “full confidence” and that he stands by his decision to nominate her.

Habba’s “work as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey has made the Garden State and the nation safer,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in an email. “The Trump Administration looks forward to her final confirmation in the U.S. Senate and will work tirelessly to ensure the people of New Jersey are well represented.”