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MANCHESTER UNITED are taking on Scottish giants Rangers in a blockbuster Europa League clash RIGHT NOW.

The headline team news from Old Trafford is that Alejandro Garnacho starts despite being linked with a move away from the club this month.

The Red Devils are unbeaten in Europe this season, but they have only won three games and have had to settle for draws on the other three occasions.

Everyone associated with Man Utd will know that two wins from their final two league phase games will guarantee automatic progression to the last 16.

Ruben Amorim will likely play a full-strength eleven this evening to give his side the best chance of picking up the three points and ensure that the Red Devils’ fate is in their own hands on the final day of the league phase next week.

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WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope.

The thriller has not only won critical plaudits, yesterday it clinched a remarkable EIGHT Oscar nominations.

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Ralph Fiennes is up for Best Actor for his portrayal of Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave[/caption]

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Pole Karol Wojtyla, who would eventually become Pope John Paul II, was trained and ordained in complete secrecy in Communist Poland[/caption]

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During the rise of fascist Italy, Mussolini monitored Vatican mail and tapped its phone lines[/caption]

Among them, Ralph Fiennes is up for Best Actor for his portrayal of Cardinal Lawrence who must oversee the conclave, where Catholic Church leaders are shut off from the outside world, to elect a new Pontiff.

The film is mired in double-dealing and dirty tricks by other senior ­clerics. But in reality, the ­Vatican has not only its own secret service but also a roster of “James Bonds in cassocks” trained to ­parachute behind enemy lines.

New book Vatican Spies, by Yvonnick Denoel, reveals an extraordinary story of espionage that includes Queen Elizabeth I, the Cold War, Mafia, KGB, CIA and MI6, as well as incredible financial scandals and cold-blooded murder.

The shadowy body first came into the light in the wake of a double murder in the Vatican — when Yvon Bertorello, a young priest, claimed there was a “state within a state . . . to destabilise communist regimes”.

He said: “Diplomacy was often used as a cover. In reality, it was a net-work of intelligence agents.

“Some of them might have use for the cassock but they were nevertheless not in Holy Orders.”

This would become one of the ­Vatican’s most notorious scandals but, like the Devil himself, its secret ­intelligence arm has had many names over the years.

It comes under the umbrella of the Secretariat of the State, which is based in the Apostolic Palace in ­the Vatican City.

Major scandal

The governing body of the Catholic Church, it houses various branches — including the famous Swiss Guards known for their elaborate uniforms, and the Vatican’s police force called the Vigilanza or Gendarmerie.

Within the Vigilanza, which is mostly staffed by former Italian cops and intelligence agents, are secret-service units that bug phone lines, monitor mail and tail suspects.

There are around 120 officers, including plain-clothes detectives and close-protection officers, whose jobs are to make sure the Pope remains safe, not least after assassination attempts in the past.

The origins of this secretive body, however, can be traced to the ­Catholic Church’s battle with Protestant England in the 16th Century and, more particularly, Queen Elizabeth I.

Pope Pius IV appointed a spy ­master, Antonio Ghislieri, who would become known as the “shadow Pope”, to build up an intelligence network to combat the Church’s enemies including England.

Ghislieri would later become Pope Pius V and would set up a formal spy agency called the Holy Alliance.

[Priests were trained in] wrestling, athletics, open-combat, firearms training and . . . parachuting

From the Russicum programme

In the 19th Century, the Papacy realised it needed to once again fire up a formal intelligence agency to counter all the revolutions sweeping Europe and the Americas.

But it was only when Pope Pius X set up a new network of political spying, called the Sapiniere, in 1903 that the Vatican would assume an increasingly central role in the world of international intelligence.

Initially, it was designed to recruit agents and informers, intercept mail, follow suspects and purge anyone viewed as a threat to the Catholic Church’s conservative ideology.

But it was not just the Vatican doing the bugging and spying. It, too, became the target of foreign intelligence services.

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Pope Pius V set up a formal spy agency called the Holy Alliance[/caption]

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Vatican City in Rome has harboured James Bond-style spies for centuries[/caption]

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In World War One, the Vatican had to cover up a major scandal when it emerged that Pope Benedict XV’s key aide was a German agent.

During the rise of fascist Italy, Mussolini monitored Vatican mail and tapped its phone lines.

The Pope’s policemen, mostly recruited from retired Italian officers, allowed fascist cops access to private quarters of foreign ambassadors to the Vatican, to steal their secrets. In 1929, the Vatican struck a deal with the Mussolini government, which involved setting up networks designed to infiltrate the USSR.

The downfall of communism would become the Church’s primary aim up until the Nineties, and saw it build alliances with many Western intelligence services, including the CIA, MI6 and French secret services.

This became increasingly important, as the Americans and British realised they were often “blind” in the Soviet Union, which ruthlessly flushed out spy networks and ­monitored Western diplomats.

The Holy See began to assume an ever bigger role as the Cold War unfolded after World War Two.

The Western powers realised that in the Church they had an informal network of information thanks to local priests.

They would collate reports on the local social, economic and political picture in their parishes which would, eventually, be filtered back to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.

In 1930, ambitious Vatican official Eugenio Pacelli became the ­Secretary of State and set up what became known as Russicum, to resist communist oppression in the USSR.

This would, in time, take an extraordinary turn after Nazi Germany and Japan had been defeated and a new cold war would emerge.

In 1949, a US military plane took off from Western Germany carrying two members of the anti-communist Ukrainian resistance and two unknown men, all with parachutes.

After travelling over East Germany and Poland, the plane descended over Ukraine to 650ft before the men jumped out.

Remarkably, the two unknowns were Catholic priests-cum- missionaries, part of a Russicum ­programme that trained priests in “wrestling, athletics, open-combat, firearms training and . . . parachuting”.

For the next five years, dozens of priests, courtesy of CIA and MI6 training, were ferried into the Ukraine in this way.

Espionage paradise

A French intelligence report described Russicum as a “true ‘action division’”, which helped the French infiltrate Eastern Bloc countries.

The CIA helped forge the required ID for agent priests, who were also expected to develop their own false identities and backstories.

There were more spies in the Vatican than in James Bond films.

Tomas Turowski, former spy turned Polish ambassador

But in 1954 the programme ended when it emerged the Soviets were rounding up these agent priests at a prolific rate.

Meanwhile Pole Karol Wojtyla, who would eventually become Pope John Paul II, was trained and ordained in complete secrecy in Communist Poland.

When he became the first non-Italian pope for 450 years in 1978, his target was communism. He immediately beefed up the Vigilanza and within this was a special secret unit that carried out black ops.

The Pope himself would become increasingly confrontational with the Polish regime.

Much later, Tomas Turowski, a former spy turned Polish ambassador, would remark that ­during John Paul’s reign, “there were more spies in the Vatican than in James Bond films”.

He added: “One priest, whose code name was Russian and who transmitted news to the Polish services, worked until recently in the Vatican for Pope ­Francis”.

John Paul II’s reign was an espionage paradise as it brought together an unholy combination of murder, the Mafia, financial scandal and secret Catholic orders, plus the Cold War.

In 1998, Alois Estermann, head of the Swiss Guards, and his wife Gladys Romero, were found shot dead in their Vatican flat, ­alongside the body of a Swiss Guard called Cedric Tornay.

It was alleged Estermann was an East German spy who had been having an affair with bisexual Tornay before the pair split acrimoniously.

The Vatican declined offers of help from Italian police and kept the probe in-house. while the young victim’s family was convinced of a cover-up.

Tornay’s mother, however, said she had met whistle-blower Bertorello by the casket of her dead son and that the murder was “all his fault . . . he even said my son had been murdered”.

She alleged Bertorello had claimed the dead guard was investigating Estermann’s links with the secretive Opus Dei sect, long seen as a malign influence within the Church.

Bertorello would later tell an Italian journalist, using an assumed name, that the Vatican had, under John Paul II, set up a “closed network” of cells around the world, made up of intelligence agents.

These were, he said, recruited from priests, universities or paramilitary organisations.

Bertorello said he had undergone four years of training as part of this network — during which he was taught codes and ciphers by a Polish priest, secret photography by an ­Italian priest, while the Italian Army trained him in parachuting.

The message was that the Vatican’s James Bond network was neither shaken nor stirred by the war’s end.

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A new book, Vatican Spies, by Yvonnick Denoel, reveals an extraordinary story of espionage that includes Queen Elizabeth I[/caption]

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The famous Swiss Guards, known for their elaborate uniforms[/caption]

ONE of the world’s finest collections of vintage Star Wars toys has sold for almost £1.2million.

Jeff Jacob spent 33 years amassing virtually every figure, spaceship, vehicle and play set from the franchise.

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One of the world’s finest collections of vintage Star Wars toys has sold for almost £1.2million, pictured Boba Fett figure that sold for £22,100[/caption]

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Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter ship went for £8,100[/caption]

The collection included more than 300 mint condition figures, including a rare Obi Wan Kenobi toy with a double extending lightsaber — a design quickly scrapped — which made £85,500.

An R2-D2 figure from 1978 made by Kenner with an “unpunched” card — meaning it was never placed on a shop display peg — went for £31,600.

And another unpunched 1979 Boba Fett figure sold for £22,100.

Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter ship went for £8,100 and a Cantina play set fetched £22,100.

Another standout lot was a rare version of Return of the Jedi bounty hunter character 4-LOM.

It is one of just four known examples and took Jeff 20 years to source, selling at auction for £15,400.

And a mint condition 1983 Millennium Falcon, still in its original box, made £7,400.

Construction worker Jeff, from Denver, Colorado, displayed his collection in glass cabinets throughout his house.

He now plans to spend his profits on building a new home.

Kelly McClain, from Hake’s auction house in Pennsylvania, USA, which conducted the sale, said: “This was the most significant and important Star Wars and action figure collection to come to auction.”

“HE took our daughter, her life, her future, and everything she could have been.

“There is no greater loss and no greater pain. His actions have left us with a lifetime of grief and it is only right that he faces the same.”

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Caged Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls in the Southport attack[/caption]

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer lays a wreath at the murder scene[/caption]

Those are the heart-wrenching words of Jenni Stancombe, the mother of murdered seven-year-old Elsie Dot, addressing the court at the sentencing of Axel Rudakubana.

It is a genuine mystery to me how any of the parents of the child victims of the Southport attack were able to so bravely sit through the harrowing evidence and to so eloquently speak out on behalf of their children.

Even as a hard-bitten old hack who has covered many a criminal trial, I struggled to hold back the tears as I read the gruesome details out loud on my radio show.

Some of the cold, hard facts hit you like a punch in the stomach: Little girls screaming and running for the door as their classmates were stabbed dozens of times.

And the killer, just hours after the attack, telling police that he was “so glad” and “happy” that he’d killed the children; smiling when he was told that his ­youngest murder victim, Bebe King, was just six years old.

Ticking time bomb

I remember being told before I became a mother myself that, when I was a ­parent, I would feel the full horror of these crimes so much more.

I didn’t believe them at the time. But they were right.

Every parent, just like me, will have had to confront the thought that it could have been THEIR child among the three little girls who died in Southport on that terrible summer’s day last year — or among the other eight children who were stabbed and the many others who managed to escape with only mental, rather than physical, scars.

We cannot begin to comprehend the anguish of the parents in grief because it is, quite simply, unimaginable. It is too unbearable a thought.

As the parents of nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar told the court: “Living without Alice is not living at all.”

While this crime is, of course, first and foremost about the victims and their families, it is also about ALL of us, about EVERY parent in this country.

It is about what we as a nation can do to prevent crimes like this from ever happening again.

Axel Rudakubana murdered three little girls that day but he had wanted to kill dozens more.

His 15-minute frenzied knife rampage affected not only the families of the 26 girls in that dance class, it also left a whole community in grief and the entire country heartbroken.

We may never know Rudakubana’s true motive for sure but we do know for certain that his many victims were failed by a system that, despite his violent attacks at school, three referrals to Prevent and an obsession with violence, war and genocide, a 12-year-old choirboy turned into a violent and dangerous teen and nothing was done to stop him.

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Murdered seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe[/caption]

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Alice da Silva Aguiar, whose parents said: ‘Living without Alice is not living at all’[/caption]

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Bebe King was just six years old when she was murdered[/caption]

He was a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off. For far too long when we see violent attacks like this, with mass casualties, whether from terrorists or the mentally ill, the message is always the same: Light a candle, come together and don’t look back in anger. Love, not hate, will win in the end, they tell us.

Which is all very well, but all those verses of Kumbaya don’t seem to have made things better so far, do they?

Just as we are baffled by how American parents can endure the almost daily high school shootings in US classrooms, it would be mystifying to anyone living in Britain 20 or 30 years ago that we would put up with the knife crime in our country that is now a staple of our daily news.

A terrorist attack here, a mass stabbing there, a 14-year-old stabbed to death on a London bus one week, a 12-year-old knifed to death in Birmingham on his way home from school this week.

Yes, these awful cases are rare, but they are not rare enough.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Same old, same old — nothing to see here. But this isn’t normal.

For how long are we expected to pretend that it is?

When are we going to stop saying prayers and start DOING something about it?

Why are deeply disturbed men being left free on the streets to take out their rage on innocent victims?

Yes, these awful cases are rare, but they are not rare enough.

And yes, Rudakubana is now behind bars, jailed for 13 life sentences with a minimum term of 52 years by the judge who said it is likely he will never be released. But we all know what will happen next.

There will be the public inquiry, more plaintive speeches by politicians, a tinkering with the laws on knives and we’ll be told “lessons will be learned”.

Until it happens again. A different knifeman, a different motive perhaps, in a different place, and different parents told that they will never see their children alive again.

Hatred in his heart

We cannot continue to live our lives just keeping our fingers crossed that it isn’t OUR child who is in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man, armed with a knife in his hand and hatred in his heart.

No parent should have to play Russian roulette when their children go to a holiday dance class, or to school or get on a bus.

No parent should have to endure the loss that the parents of Bebe, Elsie and Alice have been forced to endure.

So today, just thank your lucky stars that you weren’t sitting in that Liverpool courtroom hearing about how your child was the victim of a crazed knifeman.

Thank your lucky stars that this evening you will kiss your children goodnight as they lie safe and sound in their beds. rather than seeing them lying bloodied and cold on a morgue slab.

Thank your lucky stars that, yes, this time they were exactly that: Lucky. But what about the next time?