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Sheffield Wednesday added a fairytale ending to their extraordinary League One playoff campaign as Josh Windass scored the winner in stoppage time of extra time to earn them promotion with a 1-0 victory over 10-man Barnsley in the final on Monday.Wednesday can now look forward to Championship football next season, which had seemed wildly out of reach when they trailed Peterborough 4-0 after the first leg of their semifinal before producing the greatest comeback in English Football League playoff history.

Barnsley edged a tight League One play-off semi-final second leg against Bolton to set up an all-South Yorkshire final against Sheffield Wednesday at Wembley.With the scores level at 1-1 from the first leg on Saturday, Liam Kitching's towering back-post header from Luca Connell's arcing cross was the difference.

"Everybody wrote us off.Everybody told us we couldn't do it but it's unbelievable."The Owls had lost the first leg 4-0 and been booed off the pitch by their fans after a chastening night in Cambridgeshire last Friday.However, they stormed back at Hillsborough to win 5-1 on the night after extra time for an aggregate score of 5-5.

Sheffield Wednesday pulled off the greatest comeback in English Football League playoff history as they overturned a 4-0 first-leg deficit against Peterborough United to reach the League One playoff final via a penalty shootout on Thursday.Wednesday, who narrowly missed automatic promotion from the third tier and finished 19 points above Peterborough in the regular season, looked down and out after Friday's hammering.

Peterborough snatched the final League One play-off place with a hard-fought win at Barnsley, as Derby fell to defeat at Sheffield Wednesday.Starting the day needing a victory, and hoping sixth-placed Rams would slip up at Hillsborough, Posh were off to a great start when Jonson Clarke-Harris scored his 28th goal of the season to give them the lead.

With just one game remaining in League One, the title, a play-off place as well as three relegation places are in the balance.Plenty could change over the course of 90 minutes, as a thrilling season winds down to its conclusion.Before the final round of fixtures in the third tier, BBC Sport takes a look at what could happen.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla's coronation has been celebrated in Northern Ireland during their first visit to the region since they were crowned earlier this month.The royal couple arrived at Hazelbank Park in Co Antrim to cheers from waiting members of the public on Tuesday afternoon.The King and Queen were welcomed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Co Antrim David McCorkell, mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey Stephen Ross and North Belfast MP John Finucane (Sinn Fein).

A new package of laws the government claims will strengthen victims' rights isn't worth the paper it's written on, a watchdog has said.Claire Waxman, the victims' commissioner for London, said the Victims and Prisoners Bill had been hijacked by Dominic Raab to increase government powers while diluting its original aims.

A 21-gun salute rang out from Hillsborough Castle in Co Down to mark the coronation of the King.The official ceremony took place in the village of Royal Hillsborough, the home of the royal residence in Northern Ireland.Under grey skies, the rain held off as 2,000 people gathered in the grounds of the castle to watch the coronation service live on a large screen.

A ceremonial military troop will keep centuries of tradition in Royal Hillsborough alive when it takes part in events in the Co Down village to mark the King's coronation.As part of Saturday's celebrations, Andrew Carlisle, bugler with the Hillsborough Fort Guard, will play a fanfare he composed for the proclamation of Charles last year.

Royal Mail has unveiled four specially decorated postboxes across the UK to mark the coronation.The boxes in Westminster, central London; Edinburgh; Cardiff; and Hillsborough, Northern Ireland display the occasion's official emblem.The Westminster postbox is situated close to Westminster Abbey where the coronation will take place on Saturday.

New York Post, May 19, 2023: "The Messenger media startup mocked after rocky launch: 'I Googled and couldn't find it.'"A Google search for "The Messenger" didn't bring up the site as one of the first options - instead offering up an Iowa-based news service with the same name."Like with any new media platform, it takes a period of time to index on Google, which will happen shortly," a company spokesperson told The Post on Tuesday.

Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson has called on his side to replicate the level of performance from their 4-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in their play-off semi-final second leg.Posh go to Hillsborough on Thursday in a commanding position to reach the League One play-off final."It's about trying to go there and get a positive result," Ferguson told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Theresa May is to release a book about a series of political scandals, titled The Abuse of Power, which promises to reveal the way institutions close ranks in order to avoid dishonour.The former prime minister has never released a memoir but the book due to be published in autumn 2023 promises to reveal the story behind famous scandals including the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, the Daniel Morgan police corruption case and parliamentary dramas.

Liverpool v Man United has always been an intense rivalry, as you might expect from two of the English top-flight's storied clubs.It's a rivalry that has, however, been marred by disgusting chanting about the Heysel, Hillsborough and Munich disasters from rival supporters.So much so that according to the official Liverpool website, both Jurgen Klopp and Erik ten Hag issued a plea for calm before the Super Sunday clash.

To hear Sasha Zbrozek tell it, the story behind his plans to tear down his four-bedroom house in tony Los Altos Hills and replace it with an apartment complex is a simple tale of a young man's California dream home being ruined by the region's notorious red tape and his decision to rage against the machine.

A tearful survivor of the contaminated blood scandal said the Government has blood on its hands following the end of a four-and-a-half year inquiry.More than 30 people sat in a large viewing room in Aldwych House, west London, to watch a live feed of the inquiry on Friday.Many of them were infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C as a result of contaminated blood transfusions between the 1970s and 1990s.

Authorities have "full confidence" in Sheffield Wednesday's safety operations after reports of overcrowding during an FA Cup tie against Newcastle, says a leading football security official.Some Newcastle fans claimed there was a lack of stewarding before kick-off at Hillsborough and they were crammed in.

The government's advisor on safety at sports grounds is "concerned" by reports of overcrowding at Hillsborough during the FA Cup tie between Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle.Newcastle fans claimed on social media there was a lack of stewarding in the Leppings Lane End before Saturday's kick-off and that they were crammed in.

It would not have been wise to invite Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald to a political meeting about the Northern Ireland Protocol because she is a representative of a parliament in an EU member state, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said.The row over the exclusion of the Sinn Fein president from a political meeting with the Foreign Secretary rumbled on as Irish premier Leo Varadkar, Tanaiste Micheal Martin and UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer were all holding talks in Northern Ireland as part of efforts to resolve the dispute over the post-Brexit trading arrangements.

Tony Blair was advised that he should use the government machine to push for a Yes vote in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement  but not to the extent that it would risk calling the result of the historic vote into question.As Northern Ireland's parties inched towards signing the peace deal in April 1998, declassified state papers reveal that preparations were already well advanced for planning for the referendum which would follow.

Just days after a record-setting storm sent the Bay Area into a frenzy through massive urban flooding, more heavy rain is expected to sock the region this week.To help prepare its residents for more potential flooding, most Bay Area cities are offering sandbags, both unfilled and prefilled, free of charge throughout the week.

A bugler who played at the proclamation of the King in Royal Hillsborough is helping to keep centuries of military tradition alive in the Co Down village.Andrew Carlisle, 47, is the bugler for the Hillsborough Fort Guard, a ceremonial troop of 20 warders which dates back to 1660, when a royal warrant was first issued by Charles II.

On Wednesday, Florida's State Board of Education got an update on progress among school district's flagged for noncompliance with the state's Don't Say Gay law.Ten county school districts were put on notice last month that some of their policies and procedures "may not comport with Florida law" and were directed to bring their districts into compliance.

Wales, Northern Ireland and England's east coast will see icy conditions this week, with cold weather expected to linger through to the weekend, forecasters have said.The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for these regions which also includes northern Scotland and the Western Isles, where temperatures could sink as low as minus 10C (14F).