Red Bull settled for a single points finish at the Monaco Grand Prix as Max Verstappen finished fourth and Yuki Tsunoda finished outside the points.

The Milton Keynes-based team were unable to pick up a third win in four visits to the principality, with Verstappen finishing where he had qualified despite staying out late in hope for a red flag or safety car that never came.

Tsunoda meanwhile would get stuck in traffic in a race where multiple teams manipulated the mandatory two-stop requirement to have cars going slowly, with the Japanese driver finishing 17th and two laps down on race winner Lando Norris.

With a third of the season gone, Verstappen has 136 points. He is 25 points behind championship winner Oscar Piastri and 22 behind Monaco winner Norris, while he is also 37 clear of fourth placed man George Russell. Teammate Tsunoda sits 13th in the championship, having collected 10 points so far this season.

Red Bull sit third in the Constructors’ Championship, with the Milton Keynes-based team being 176 points behind early leaders McLaren, four points behind second placed Mercedes and just one ahead of fourth place Ferrari.

With the Monaco Grand Prix running as a mandatory two stop to try and mix things up, many approached the race curious as to how it would pan out.

Verstappen would start fourth, having qualified fifth but gained a place due to a grid penalty for Lewis Hamilton, while Tsunoda started from 12th.

While Verstappen maintained position in the early stages, Tsunoda was one of a few drivers to gamble on making his first pit stop at the end of lap one. This came under a virtual safety car, which was deployed after debris was left on track when Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto hit the wall, although the Brazilian was able to continue.

Tsunoda would then get involved in a notable incident on lap 8. When approaching the chicane after the tunnel, he was hit from behind by Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, with Tsunoda’s former Alpha Tauri teammate suffering extensive damage and retiring from the race. Tsunoda was however able to continue.

Verstappen pitted on lap 29, having run long into the race after starting on hard tyres compared to others, but returned behind Norris, Charles Leclerc and Piastri, who had all pit early.

The reigning world champion opted to try to go long after his first stop in hopes of a safety car or red flag to neutralise the race, with the Dutchman still running in the final laps just ahead of Norris and Leclerc, who were pushing hard.

With nothing coming, however, Verstappen came in at the start of the final lap to fulfil the mandatory requirement for a pit-stop, before popping back out for his last lap to take the flag fourth in a large gap between Piastri in 3rd and 5th place Hamilton.

Tsunoda’s strategy ended up being skewed by events ahead, with both Red Bull’s junior team Racing Bulls and Williams running strategies where their drivers went slow to help out their team-mates. This left the second Red Bull stuck in heavy traffic alongside Mercedes and Sauber runners.

He would also abandon his hope of a safety car in the end, pulling off to make his second stop late on and finishing well outside the points.

Red Bull will seek to return next weekend, when the third part of F1’s triple header takes the grid to Barcelona for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Milton Keynes City Council have announced plans for two new schools to be opened in the city.

This week, the City Council and the national government’s Department for Education have started the process to find education trusts to run two major new schools in Milton Keynes.

Developed by the City Council using funding from developers, the new schools will create more than 2,700 additional school places for local children.

A new primary school in Whitehouse South will cater for up to 630 pupils with a 39-place full-time equivalent (FTE) nursery on-site. Opening in September 2028, it will be the fifth school to open in this rapidly expanding area of the city, joining three existing primary schools and Watling Academy, a secondary rated Outstanding by Ofsted.

A new ‘all through’ school in Elverby, MK East will be one of the largest schools in the city, eventually providing more than 2,100 places for pupils aged 2 to 18 years. The primary phase will open in September 2027.

Both schools will include Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) units creating 48 dedicated school spaces between them.

In the past ten years, the City Council has created capacity for 13,409 new school places for local children; building seven new schools and helping 22 existing schools expand.

A formal decision to appoint Trusts to run the new schools will be made in Spring 2026, following a thorough process involving local education leaders and the Department for Education (DfE).

Councillor Joe Hearnshaw, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said, “We’re really excited to announce these two new schools that will be so important to our growing communities. Both sites will include specialist provision for children with additional needs which is an essential element of these inclusive schools.

“As Milton Keynes continues to expand, we will ensure that all families continue to have access to quality local schools. This year, all children who applied for school places within their catchment area were able to get them and we will strive to ensure that continues.”

Milton Keynes-born footballer Leah Williamson played the whole game as Arsenal won the Women’s Champions League by beating Barcelona.

Williamson helped the Gunners win the Champions League with a 1-0 win over Barcelona in Lisbon, with Arsenal pulling off a shock win against a Barcelona team that had been chasing a third straight Women’s Champions League title.

Stina Blackstenius scored the game’s only goal after 74 minutes, with the Swede receiving Beth Mead’s pass and scoring.

Victory was Arsenal’s first win in a major women’s European competition since 2007, when the Champions League was then called the UEFA Women’s Cup. The Gunners are also noteworthy as the only team from England to have won the trophy.

Arsenal had previously seen a goal disallowed after an offside in the build-up to an own goal by Barcelona’s Irene Paredes, but were able to keep quiet Barcelona stars such as Ballon d’or winners Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmati.

Firm resistance after Arsenal’s goal to keep Barcelona’s attack from registering an equaliser would also get the job done in order to secure the title for the London-based club.

In a post-match interview with the BBC, Williamson voiced her delight to get the job done.

She said, “I have a rule not to look at the scoreboard and broke it about three times, but it was just incredible.

“Barcelona are an incredible team and we hadn’t put a foot wrong all game and I just didn’t want that to happen in the 87th minute. So I’m glad we didn’t.

“Every domestic trophy, I’ve won with Arsenal now. On a personal level, I’m proud of that, but 18 years is a long time to wait for something. We took so much pride in being the only one in the land and proud of that legacy, and we’ve just done it again.”

Williamson’s haul of trophies at Arsenal saw her add a European trophy to medals in domestic competitions, with the defender having previously won a Women’s Super League, 2 FA Cups and 4 League Cup titles in her playing career.

She was also captain when England won the Women’s Euros in 2022, with the Lionesses preparing to defend their crown in Switzerland later this year at the tournament’s next edition.

Police have released a CCTV image of two men who officers would like to speak to in relation to a robbery in Milton Keynes.

The incident happened at around 3:20pm on Friday 11 April on the footpath alongside Unity Place and V6 Grafton Street.

Two men on bicycles approached a man in his 20s, before the men proceeded to steal the victim’s phone and injured his hand during the incident. They then left in the direction of the old bus station.

As part of their appeal, Thames Valley Police released a photo of two people they wished to speak to regarding the incident.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Grace Boland, said, “I am appealing to anyone who recognises the people in this image to please come forward as they may have vital information to assist us with our investigation.

“I am also appealing to anyone who witnessed this incident or has information that may assist us to please get in touch.

“Anyone with information should call 101 or make an online report, via our website, quoting crime reference number 43250177994.”