Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill is hoping their Capital One Cup clash against Middlesborough will replicate the atmosphere of last year’s quarter-final against Everton at the Stadium of Light
A pensioner has been describing his lucky escape after a freak wave tossed him into the Atlantic from his small yacht. 71 year old Gerry Beard was washed overboard off the Butt of Lewis – amazingly the next wave flung him back onto the vessel. In other news; both sides in the independence referendum debate have taken heart from some of the findings in the annual British Social Attitudes survey