Labour leader Ed Miliband with 16-year-old Rory Weal, after he addressed the Labour Party Conference. Welfare helped Weal’s family after his father’s business failed Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The UK needs to shed the stigma attached to entrepreneurs who rely on benefits after a venture goes wrong, business groups and experts have said. Their comments came after criticism of a property developer's 16-year-old son who spoke out against coalition welfare cuts at the Labour conference. Rory Read more

The short, history-suffused walk from Anfield to Goodison Park often transports pedestrians back in time. Emerging from the maze of tight Victorian terraces surrounding Liverpool's ground, the route winds gently downhill across the green expanse of Stanley Park, passing its imposing centrepiece, the beautifully restored, grade II-listed, 19th-century Isla Gladstone Conservatory. Down the years this monument to an era when, as the then gateway to the Americas, Liverpool was one of the British Empire's Read more

Celtic's Neil Lennon expects tight security at Hearts. 'It could be one of the safest places for me to be on Sunday,' he said. Photograph: Richard Sellers/Sportsphoto Neil Lennon has criticised the Scottish football authorities for not punishing Hearts after he was physically attacked on the touchline at Tynecastle in May. The Celtic manager takes his team to Hearts on Sunday, Lennon's first appearance at the Edinburgh ground since the incident during their 3-0 win in the spring. A Hearts supporter, Read more

Javier Hernández returns from injury for United against Norwich, along with his strike partner Wayne Rooney. Photograph: Matthew Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images Sir Alex Ferguson believes Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernández can match Manchester United's attack during the 1999 treble-winning season as he welcomes the forwards back from injury to play against Norwich City. The United manager confirmed Rooney has recovered from the hamstring strain that sidelined the England international against Stoke Read more

George Osborne's plans are in need of 'radical improvement', according to the Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie. Photograph: Getty Images The Tory party has been hit by a row over its economic strategy on the eve of the Conservative party conference with a senior backbencher attacking George Osborne's plans as "piecemeal" and in need of "radical improvement". Andrew Tyrie, the influential chairman of the Treasury select committee, said the government still did not have a "coherent and credible" plan Read more