内容摘要：The magnitude of the eagerly-anticipated encounter appeared to affect both players in an edgy opening set.

The magnitude of the eagerly-anticipated encounter appeared to affect both players in an edgy opening set.

The union says its members facing cuts to pay are being asked to make sacrifices that they as individuals cannot afford. Their determination is apparent in the outcome of this ballot.At the same time, the council says there are limits to what it can offer and

that for the most part, are not about money.The reorganisation of the service which prompted the dispute centres on the authority's long-standing problem with equal pay claims.Claims made by female council staff on the same job grades elsewhere in the authority have already cost over £1bn and were one of the main drivers of the council effectively going bankrupt in 2023.

This loss must be stemmed says the council, and so there are limits to what can be negotiated under the new pay grades or it says it risks falling into the same legal quagmire.Further talks involving Acas are due to take place in the coming days.

This ballot does not mean industrial action will continue until Christmas, but it means it is possible, and Unite will believe it hands its negotiators the strongest possible hand in those talks.

A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl have been sentenced for killing an 80-year-old man out walking his dog in a park.Hardin pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after fatally shooting 59-year-old James Appleton in 2017. He was given a 30 year prison sentence.

Mr Appleton worked in the city's water department. He was shot and killed while speaking to his brother-in-law, then-Gateway Mayor Andrew Tillman, on 23 February 2017.While serving time for Mr Appleton's murder, DNA evidence emerged linking Hardin to the long unsolved rape of Amy Harrison at Frank Tillery Elementary School in Rogers, Arkansas, in November 1997.

Hardin pleaded guilty, and received a sentence of 50 years.Before becoming Gateway's police chief, Hardin served as an officer at the Eureka Springs Police Department.