Luton Town have announced the signing of teenage midfielder Jake Richards from Exeter City.

The 17-year-old moves from Devon to Bedfordshire upon expiry of his contract with Exeter, with Richards signing a contract of undisclosed length at Kenilworth Road.

Exeter will be due compensation with Richards being under the age of 24 and having been offered a professional contract by the Grecians.

Richards had made 32 appearances for Exeter, scoring two goals. The move will be his first away from the club, having joined Exeter’s youth academy at age 12.

Luton Manager Matt Bloomfield told the Hatters’ website that his experience seeing Richards play for Exeter against his own former club Wycombe Wanders impressed him enough to decide he would be the right fit for Luton’s rebuild.

Bloomfield said, “Jake played against us twice last year at Wycombe and although he’s a young boy, he’s already gained great experience, so he is ready to come in and hopefully affect the first team group as soon as possible.

“He’s someone who can accept the ball in tight areas, he can wriggle out of tight situations and he can play in midfield, attacking midfield or behind the striker in the ten, so he has nice versatility about him and good dynamic movements.

“It’s a big move for him and we need to give him time to settle, but he’s been in training with us this week and he already feels like he’s at home with the boys. We want to progress his career and help develop him, and he’s a really exciting signing for the football club.”

Red Bull salvaged a top 5 finish at the British Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen recovered to finish 5th after an error.

The Dutch driver had taken pole and was running second in a race held in mixed conditions when he had a slide on the restart following a safety car, which dropped him down to 10th. Verstappen was however able to recover to take a 5th place finish.

Meanwhile, teammate Yuki Tsunoda had another difficult afternoon, with the Japanese driver finishing 15th in the Red Bull and being the only driver to be lapped by race winner Lando Norris.

Events at the British Grand Prix took the 2025 F1 season to the halfway mark, with Verstappen sitting third in the Driver’s Championship standings after 12 races. The Dutchman has 165 points, with the total seeing him sit 61 points behind second place Norris and 69 behind championship leader Oscar Piastri.

Tsunoda sits 17th in the championship, having scored 10 points so far in 2025.

Red Bull occupy fourth place in the Constructor’s Championship table, with the Milton Keynes-based team up to 172 points. They are 38 points behind third placed Mercedes, 50 points behind second placed Ferrari and a full 288 points behind runaway leaders McLaren.

As Red Bull made the short hop from Milton Keynes to Silverstone, the team arrived on Sunday hoping to capitalise on taking pole position. Verstappen had been able to pip the McLaren pair to qualify on pole on Saturday, with the Dutchman hoping to take a third win at the British Grand Prix track. Tsunoda meanwhile started 11th, aiming to get his first points since the Imola race in May.

While multiple other drivers opted to pit at the end of the formation lap for dry tyres, Red Bull’s pair opted to stay out. Verstappen held the lead from Piastri early on, while Tsunoda was involved in early drama.

The second Red Bull went three-wide into turn 4 with Esteban Ocon and Liam Lawson, and the net result saw Ocon strike Lawson, putting the former Red Bull driver out of the race.

This triggered a virtual safety car, which would then shortly be required again after Gabriel Bortoleto spun his Sauber and crashed out.

Red Bull had tried a low-downforce set-up which worked in the dry conditions of qualifying but gave Verstappen more of a challenge in the wet. Although he initially maintained the lead, he would be bypassed by Piastri on lap 8.

Verstappen was then passed again 3 laps later by Norris, but the two pit to change to new sets of wet weather tyres and a much quicker stop for Verstappen allowed the Red Bull to re-pass the McLaren.

The safety car was then called on lap 14 as visibility deteriorated, with the safety car then called again on the lap where it was initially brought back in after Isack Hadjar crashed into Andrea Kimi Antonelli when blinded by the spray of the Mercedes in front.

A curious moment happened on lap 22 when the race restarted after the end of a safety car period, as Piastri slammed heavily on the brakes and Verstappen initially went past the McLaren before letting him back through.

Piastri would later receive a ten second time penalty for this, but long before the stewards delivered their verdict, Verstappen had fallen away from a position to capitalise as the Dutchman spun on a damp part of the track when trying to head out of Stowe corner, dropping him all the way down from 2nd to 10th.

Things got worse for Red Bull as Tsunoda also hit the Haas of Oliver Bearman, earning himself a ten second time penalty for that misdemeanour.

For a long swathe of proceedings after that, Verstappen remained stuck in 10th sandwiched by the two Williams cars. But as others began to pit for dry tyres, Verstappen timed his stop right to jump other cars, with overtakes on Pierre Gasly and Lance Stroll helping him take the car up into 5th position by the time the race concluded.

Tsunoda wouldn’t have the luck to try and rescue his day with a points finish, with the second Red Bull finishing a lap down on the race winner and last overall.

Red Bull will now seek to move on from the British Grand Prix, with the team having two weekends off racing before F1 resumes with the Belgian Grand Prix in late July.

Milton Keynes-born football star Leah Williamson played the whole game as England were beaten by France in the first game of the Women’s Euros.

The England captain played the whole match in Switzerland as the Lionesses began the defence of the Euros trophy they won at Wembley in 2022.

Things would end up making for a difficult start for England, however, after a 2-1 defeat by France in the tournament opener in Zurich.

Two goals in three minutes proved decisive for France, with Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Sandy Baltimore giving the French a 2-0 lead.

England had seen a goal disallowed at 0-0, but struggled for much of the game after falling two goals behind to recover.

They were handed a lifeline when Keira Walsh struck in the final minutes of the regular 90, only for France to shut the door on England and limit them to chances late on.

That means defeat for England in their tournament opener, with the team becoming the first reigning European champions to lose the first game of a following tournament.

England will aim to get points on the board in their next match, when they play the Netherlands in the same Zurich stadium on Wednesday.

In a post-match interview with BBC Sport, Williamson admitted her frustration that the team couldn’t get a reward in their opener or take advantage of opportunities that had fallen their way during the match.

She said, “I feel quite emotional actually. I’m disappointed there were some cheap sort of emotional defending in the first half, when you take waves of attack like that you leave yourself open to those sorts of things. I’m just frustrated because I think the football that we played near the end, and the game plan, could’ve worked. We just didn’t execute it exceptionally well.

“I recognise that the middle of the game is when we did go a little bit flat and I think there were some decisions that if they’d of gone our way would’ve really changed the momentum of the game.

“It doesn’t look great from the table point of view but it was two heavyweights going up against each other and today we came up short. There’s still every chance. The goal doesn’t change.”

A 15-year-old boy has appeared in court and been formally charged with arson after a major fire at a Northampton retail park.

The 15-year-old boy from Northampton, who cannot be named for legal reasons because of his age, was charged on Friday (04/07) with one count of arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered.

The charge follows an incident at St James’ Retail Park in central Northampton on May 31.

Major fire broke out in a branch of Dunelm home furnishings at the retail park, creating huge plumes of smoke visible for miles around.

The blaze destroyed both the Dunelm branch and an adjacent branch of Pets at Home. Several outlets at the retail park still remain closed.

The charged individual appeared before Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Friday, and at the hearing, he was given conditional bail. He will make a further appearance at Wellingborough Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday July 8.

Two other Northampton boys, both aged 14 and who also cannot be named for legal reasons, remain on conditional bail in relation to the incident.