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“Aberdeen were thrashed 6-0 by Celtic in the Scottish League Cup, ending a 16-match unbeaten run under Jimmy Thelin. What’s the heaviest defeat to end an unbeaten run?” asked Matthew Shore last week.

We added the caveat of an unbeaten run of at least 15 games, and Chris Roe got busy crunching the numbers, for English football at least. “There have been 487 instances of unbeaten runs in league fixtures of at least 15 matches in length,” he tells us. “Of those, 290 were ended by a single-goal defeat, and 133 by a two-goal margin.”

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Emergency funding deal would give struggling water company £3bn lifeline

Thames Water has been teetering on the brink of collapse since being described as “uninvestible” in March when shareholders refused to pour in more cash .

The government has been on standby for nationalisation through a special administration regime.

This is a decisive vote of confidence in the first stage of our restructuring plan for Thames Water from a large group of its creditors, which include a significant number of long-term infrastructure investors. It shows that there is a genuine will to develop a market-based solution which saves UK taxpayers from shouldering the costs of special administration.

Our group is working intensively with the company and providing it with the resources and turnaround expertise it needs to ultimately attract strategic equity and rebuild so all parties can focus once again on delivering a better service for customers and the environment.

US yields pushed higher and the dollar rally gained further momentum yesterday, as investors continued to surf on the idea that Donald Trump’s pro-growth policies and tariffs would boost inflation in the US and limit the Federal Reserve’s capacity to ease the monetary policy as much as previously anticipated. The US 2-year yield, for example, which best captures the rate expectations, is up by 85bp since the September dip, we could see a similar jump in the US 10-year yield.

The CPI [consumer price index] data has regained importance since Donald Trump was re-elected president of the US. Jobs data remains crucial for the Fed’s policy path, as the last thing the Fed wants is to panic and lose control of the situation, but the Fed’s victory over inflation looks more vulnerable today than it did a month ago. And that’s supportive of the US dollar.

Noon GMT: US MBA mortgage applications for last week

1.30pm GMT: US inflation for October (forecast: 2.6%, previous: 2.4%)

Welby worked hard to hold the Anglican church together on many controversial issues, but in the end it was his own failings that led to his downfall

In the almost 12 years that Justin Welby has been archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England has both cemented its place at the heart of the establishment and become less and less relevant to the lives of most citizens.

Welby has buried a queen, crowned a king and married a prince. He has offered spiritual counsel to six prime ministers and debated issues of national importance in the House of Lords. He has addressed the nation regularly via the BBC, with Christmas, new year and Easter messages and occasional Thought for the Day broadcasts.

A chronicle of the largest criminal case in French history from a master of the genre

In the early evening of 12 November 2015, three cars left Charleroi in Belgium, arriving a few hours later at a rented house in the northern suburbs of Paris. The occupants of the cars – or “the death convoy”, as they called it – were Islamic State terrorists who, the following night, rampaged through the French capital. Three attacked the Stade de France , where a football friendly between France and Germany was being played. Arriving late, they were denied entry to the stadium and blew themselves up outside.

At the same time, another group opened fire on cafes and bars in the city centre. Two members fled, while another walked into a restaurant and detonated his suicide vest. Meanwhile, the remaining trio entered the Bataclan theatre, where a crowd of 1,500 were attending a gig by the US rock band Eagles of Death Metal. The attack and subsequent siege lasted two and a half hours and ended with all three terrorists dead. Across the city, 130 people had been murdered and hundreds more injured.

Former Baddest Man on the Planet is all smiles in open workout as he gears up for inglorious fight with ‘YouTube sensation’

The madness rolled through an anonymous breakfast bar in Arlington, just outside Dallas, soon after six o’clock on Tuesday morning. Sleepy diners gazed at a bank of television screens which had lit up with images of two contrasting men on the early morning NBC news. In front of them a suave anchorman promised that Friday night’s manufactured scrap in north Texas between “the 58-year-old boxing icon Iron Mike Tyson and the Problem Child, Jake Paul,” will transport us “back to the glory days of boxing.”

As if we needed any more convincing the screen then filled with the scraggly-bearded face of Paul, “the 27-year-old YouTube sensation”, who praised the owners of the Dallas Cowboys for sharing his vision of staging “the biggest fight in the history of boxing” at their AT&T Stadium just 10 miles down the road from where we sat drinking our lukewarm coffee.

After Donald Trump’s second win the European Union should capitalise on the likely transatlantic brain drain

I am resisting the temptation to write a lamentation of anger and sorrow about Trump’s second victory. What is more useful is to think about what Europe can do to protect its environment, its people and its economy in a world where the Trump administration may act, in many ways, to undermine and even destroy it.

The EU’s first bold move to lead by example in the new Trump era should be to seize 200bn euros’ worth of frozen Russian central bank assets and transfer them to Ukraine as a form of pre-emptive reparations. The European Parliamentary Research Service and outside experts have proposed ways in which it could be done in full accordance with international law. But this alone won’t obviate the need for the EU to borrow more to boost its common defence and green infrastructure spending, even though it will increase its debt.

Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist

From swap meets to looking after clothes correctly, you can save cash while making your children’s wardrobes more sustainable

Charity shops can be a goldmine for bargains – use the Charity Retail Association ’s online search page to find ones that stock children’s clothes, or in London, head to one of FARA’s 14 stores that specialise in kids’ clothes. Again you can find them listed online .

This well-acted film is distilled from the experiences of three women in their 60s and 70s who speak with wit and warmth

Costa Rican film-maker Antonella Sudasassi Furniss has curated a docudrama distilled from the experiences of three women in their 60s and 70s, who speak (off camera, anonymously) with wit and warmth about their enduring sexuality; an older person’s sexuality that modernity primly refuses to recognise, just as patriarchal authorities denied and repressed them as sexual beings in their youth.

Furniss also creates three phases of the same composite character: the older woman (Sol Carballo), a widow who has a happy and sensual relationship with a man; the woman of early middle age (Paulina Bernini Viquez), whose innocent marriage to her first real boyfriend sours toxically into violence as he reveals himself to be a drunk and an abuser; and before that the shy 12-year-old (Juliana Filloy Bogantes), who has an unhappy, oppressive mother. The effect is a kind of fictionalised cine-memoir as the older woman – whom one might at first mistake for a real person, taking part in a drama – wanders about her apartment where primal scenes from her past are then re-enacted.

After hours of calls to BT, engineer no-shows, complaints raised and multiple promises, nothing has happened

I am desperate to help my 80-year-old dad, JF, and his partner who have been left without a landline for more than two months by BT .

This is especially difficult as my dad has relatives in Canada that he usually phones every weekend, and his partner is Japanese. Both need a landline to call their families so as to not feel  isolated.