Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers.
Subscribers took note of the updated terms when the company sent out emails about the changes last week (via Dexerto). An email sent to UK subscribers that was reviewed by IGN mentioned that Disney+ had "clarified that all service plans" can now include a range of promotional content before and after viewers stream movies and shows. You can read the message sent to subscribers below.
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"Changes to your Disney+ Subscriber Agreement, include, in summary, the following (though we do encourage you to read the new Subscriber Agreement in full): - We’ve clarified that all Service Plans may include: (i) promotional content, (ii) sponsorships, and (iii) advertisements before/after playback of Content and in channels, live/as-live, special events, and any third-party services content."
While this doesn't mean Disney will now start baking in advertisements throughout all content, it does seemingly loosen restrictions for promotional content for even the service's most expensive tier. It's a quiet-but-major change, with previous standalone Disney+ plans broken up between two options.
The Basic Disney+ tier, which costs $11.99/month, did not and still does not allow for ad-free viewing. The Premium tier comes in at $18.99/month (or $189.99/year). It still promises "no ads," but based on the updated wording, it seems ads may appear before and after playback, just not during it. Either way, the new subscriber agreement seemingly solidifies the end of a completely ad-free experience on the platform.
Disney+'s Junior Mode appears to be the one exception. Profiles with the kid-friendly experience enabled will not be subjected to ads or promotional content. How exactly today's changes might affect the frequency of ads per tier is unclear.
Disney+ implemented its latest price increases in October 2025. You can see the full line-up of content made available on the streaming service for September 2026 here.
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Middlesex 231 (49.5 overs): Higgins 100, Duke 55; Holland 5-36
Leicestershire 200 (44.2 overs): Kelly 103; Roland-Jones 3-27, Helm 3-32
Middlesex win by 31 runs
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Match scorecard
Middlesex claimed their first silverware in a decade as they fought back from a tricky start to beat Leicestershire in a thrilling One-Day Cup final at Trent Bridge.
Having been put into bat by Leicestershire captain Stephen Eskinazi, Ryan Higgins' magnificent hundred dug Middlesex out of a hole and helped them reach 231 before being bowled out in the final over of their innings.
Higgins, 31, struck nine fours in his 115-ball knock after his team had slumped to 71-5 in the 22nd over, putting on 135 with on-loan Yorkshire wicketkeeper Harry Duke (55) for the sixth wicket.
Ian Holland returned his second-best List-A figures of 5-36 for the Foxes, while England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed took 3-55.
In reply, Leicestershire too lost early wickets as former England seamer Toby Roland-Jones bowled 10 overs straight through in a fine opening spell of 3-27.
Leicestershire were indebted to the efforts of New Zealand international Nick Kelly, who reached a glorious century of his own off 103 deliveries and appeared to be taking his side to victory.
However, the game swung again in the over after Kelly reached his hundred as the left-hander heaved Tom Helm to Higgins on the mid-wicket fence to leave Leicestershire eight down.
And that proved the decisive moment as Helm dismissed Ajaz Patel and Tom Scriven skied Naavya Sharma straight up, with captain Ben Geddes taking the winning catch.
Middlesex's most recent success was the County Championship in 2016, and they had not won a white-ball trophy since lifting the T20 Blast in 2008.
Middlesex had to overcome adversity more than once in Nottingham as they ended their long wait for a trophy.
They faced the most difficult batting conditions of the day in the opening hour and many teams would have crumbled at 71-5.
The sixth-wicket partnership between Higgins and Duke was a game-defining one as they fought back and gave their bowlers something to work with.
It was Higgins' first List-A hundred and it will live long in the memory for Middlesex supporters fortunate enough to watch it as he displayed character, graft and no shortage of skill.
Roland-Jones is a legendary figure at the club and he showed exactly why with a near-immaculate spell, taking the key scalps of Rishi Patel and Ahmed.
Sharma is Middlesex's leading wicket-taker in this competition and the 21-year-old too impressed with the ball, making the breakthrough as he found Eskinazi's outside edge, pinning Hamza Shaikh lbw and then returning to take the final wicket.
With Kelly in full flow, heads never went down and they showed all the composure of a team that have only lost once in this format all season.
Off the back of their 27-point deduction in the County Championship, Leicestershire's team talk is more than likely to have been straightforward.
And they started like a team with a point to prove after Eskinazi won the toss, backed by a vocal travelling support.
Holland set the tone with the new ball, nicking off Nathan Fernandes and Max Holden cheaply before Tom Scriven took two wickets of his own, including a fine catch by wicketkeeper Ben Cox to remove Josh De Caires (26).
Incredibly Cox caught the first five wickets to fall.
Middlesex fought back through Higgins and Duke, and the Foxes will perhaps look back on that partnership as an opportunity that slipped away.
Rishi Patel and Eskinazi got the chase off to a bright start, but three wickets for just three runs stalled their momentum and similarly to Middlesex's innings, Leicestershire found themselves five wickets down in the 70s.
Ahmed will regret his decision not to review after being given out lbw off Roland-Jones, with replays showing it would have missed leg stump.
Much as Higgins revived Middlesex, Kelly breathed new life into the Leicestershire chase with his defiant knock, which featured 10 fours and three sixes.
The Kiwi left-hander was being serenaded from the stands as the runs required ticked away, but he had to drag himself from the middle with 44 runs still needed.
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Actor Danny Dyer, his daughter Dani Dyer and singer Becky Hill have attended a protest in Kent demanding public ownership of the water industry.
Activists from Surfers Against Sewage descended on Leysdown on Sunday after 315,000 signed a petition calling for the water industry to be returned to public ownership.
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Rivals and EastEnders star Dyer, who has been running a caravan park on Isle of Sheppey as part of a new TV series, told the BBC: "Sometimes when you look out to the sea, you can smell the twang in the air."
Water UK said that "no sewage spill is ever acceptable", while Southern Water said it was committed to reducing storm overflows.
Dyer said that the quality of the water was "a disgrace".
"It's a very dangerous thing," he told the BBC.
Meanwhile Hill said that she loved swimming in the open water but found it "disgusting" to find human waste in the sea.
She said that she was campaigning for her family and other families for a cleaner sea.
"We can stand up and make a difference," she added.
Meanwhile Cliff Roney, a GMB activist who has worked in the water industry for more than 40 years, said: "I have seen this industry at its very best and now at its very worst.
"If the industry is not brought back into public ownership quickly, we are heading towards a national catastrophe."
Water UK said it was working to end sewage spills "as fast as we physically can".
"That's why we are tripling investment over the next five years to halve spills from storm overflows and upgrade the capacity of 1,700 wastewater treatment works," a spokesperson said.
"This is part of a record £104bn investment programme – the largest in the industry's history – to stop sewage entering our rivers and seas, secure our water supplies and support economic growth."
Southern Water's director for environment and innovation, Nick Mills, said its 10-year, £1.5bn Clean Rivers and Seas Plan was "already starting to make a difference".
"In Whitstable, we're harnessing both AI and nature-based solutions, and we're investing £90m in improvements to Swalecliffe Wastewater Treatment Works. Together, these measures will dramatically reduce storm overflows in the area."
According to Defra's Bathing Water Quality site, the most recent classification for Leysdown is rated good, based on samples taken from 2022 to 2025.
There have been no pollution incidents reported there, the website states.
He delivered a double few thought possible last season when the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup were salvaged from the potential wreckage of one of Celtic's most tumultuous seasons.
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He very nearly lifted the Uefa Cup in 2003 against a Jose Mourinho-inspired Porto who, the following season, won the Champions League.
His status as one of the club's all-time great managers is surely secure.
Which is perhaps why, so soon after returning to the club as its unlikely saviour, manager Martin O'Neill wondered out loud whether now, at the age of 74, it's finally time "to wrap it up".
The Northern Irishman's words came in the post-match news conference following a second defeat in a week against arch-rivals Rangers.
The fact he also joked about being "110 years old in two years' time" ought not to deflect from the fact O'Neill might now be seriously considering whether he's still the right man to be in charge of Celtic.
After such a damaging week, with a home European defeat to Ferencvaros in-between the two losses to Rangers, might O'Neill decide to protect his fine legacy at the club by walking away while the side is still top of the Premiership?
"I genuinely will reflect and see," he said. "It's a matter of whether I can help the team. The manager is supposed to be able to do that. I will look at that this week.
"I think every single time something crops up and things don't go so well, age plays a part. And, do you know what, they might be right. I'll be 110 in two years' time so it might be time to wrap it up.
"I will reflect on the games and speak to the board. You never know, they may well want to speak to me. I'll try to get a couple of days away and see how it goes. "
Lending credence to the notion that O'Neill is about to embark on a period of proper soul-searching, he referenced last season's dramatic last-day decider in which Celtic won the title in the last few minutes of the final league game.
"The game against Hearts was probably one of the great moments of my managerial time. And I've had some really good moments," he added.
"While that was good and I was delighted to get that opportunity, all the time I was still thinking about whether you can still have the energy and the desire - the things that I say to the boys every Friday - so I'll have a look at that and we'll see."
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O'Neill on back-to-back defeats to rivals Rangers
How has it gone so wrong so quickly?
It's worth remembering that half an hour into the second leg of their Champions League play-off in August, Celtic were 4-0 up on aggregate against LASK in Linz and seemingly cruising to the league phase of European football's elite competition.
The collapse within that game - and the humiliating exit from the competition - seems to have left an indelible scar on the players and management team alike.
The four Premiership wins that followed were largely unimpressive; three of them single-goal victories against Falkirk, St Mirren and St Johnstone. When the pressure was on against Rangers - twice - and Ferencvaros, Celtic simply folded.
Questions have been asked by a section of the club's support about the quality, breadth and timing of the recent summer recruitment.
Former Scotland international James McFadden remains unconvinced. "They haven't actually added to the squad in terms of numbers or real quality," he said on Sky Sports. "They've just replaced what left."
O'Neill has tried to find a way to accommodate big-money signings Camilo Duran and Kasper Hogh into the side, without much success. He has tried a series of different midfielders to try to reinvigorate the heart of his team.
O'Neill even tried dropping his wingers entirely in Sunday's league derby, fielding five defenders and pushing full-back Kieran Tierney further forward. All to no avail.
Chris Sutton, who played under O'Neill during the manager's first spell at the club, was deeply unimpressed by what he saw.
"It wasn't a close game," he said on Sky Sports. "There was a massive gulf. I can't remember a Celtic team getting such a doing from a Rangers team at Celtic Park.
"Rangers were a team and Celtic weren't. They knew their next pass and Celtic didn't. Rangers were better in every department.They were smashed and that's the concern.
"They have big problems, some self-inflicted. They've lacked legs and physicality in the middle of the park. This has been a big issue all season. Callum McGregor's another year older, can't get about the pitch like he used to.
"Martin will have to come up with something. I loved him as a manager when I was at the club. He is getting on a bit but, as a guy, I still think he has the fight for it."
That sentiment is shared by Sutton's former team-mate, Neil Lennon, who knows O'Neill better than most and who also knows how heavily the mantle of Celtic manager can weigh.
"He's hurting, he's smarting about it," Lennon said on Sky Sports. "He'd want to find the answers. The break's come at a good time for him - recuperate, get some sun and re-think about the whole thing. He still feels he's got the energy to do it."
"When you get a week like this - not only defeats but the manner of the defeats - he knows himself more than anyone there's going to be a lot of scrutiny, criticism and introspection."
What are the fans saying?
Lee: This is it for MON - his starting XI looked weak in midfield and proved to be. What he and the coaching staff have done to our big summer signings after bright starts is a worry. And the general fitness is telling, too.
Alec: What game was MON watching, to say it was a close game? Wow. It's quite obvious MON and coaches don't know best 11 or also a formation for them. How Ox can't get in that team and they can't see our midfield getting overrun every game is beyond me.
Kev: You can see O'Neill throwing the towel in here soon. I don't blame him. There's something smouldering at the club . This international break has come at the right time for Celtic. Dermot [Desmond] will be phoning his mate Pep for a hand at this rate.
Wayne: Let's be honest, getting beat is part of the game, as a fan you can accept that. What as fans you cannot accept is not giving it all, and that's the problem Celtic have at the moment, getting beat by average teams three games in a week. Shocking performances.
Danny: The board will keep O'Neill on as they think the fans won't turn but another loss today and it will become very toxic and all the good O'Neill has done will be forgotten.
Captain Saskia Horley hit a remarkable century as Middlesex beat Glamorgan by 67 runs to win the One Day Cup League Two final in Bristol.
Horley hit 117 from 86 balls, including 13 boundaries, and put on 131 for the fourth wicket with Finty Trussler.
Trussler and Pippa Sproul both scored 43 in a dominant batting performance as Middlesex posted 278-6, aided by some below-par Glamorgan fielding.
Bethan Gammon top scored for the Welsh side with 58 but they were all out for 211, with Horley also leading from the front with the ball when taking 4 for 36.
Middlesex secured their maiden One Day Cup title while Glamorgan were denied the perfect farewell to tier-two cricket in their final match before turning professional.
Middlesex started strongly when opener Artemis Downer, who hit an unbeaten 60 when they hammered Glamorgan by 10 wickets earlier in September, impressed with a couple of boundaries before being caught at point off Anna-Mae Shearn.
Izzy Routledge and Sproul helped steady the ship with a fluent 60-run partnership, before Routledge was caught at mid-off from a Nicole Reid delivery.
Sproul soon followed for a solid 43 from 67 balls when caught and bowled by Poppy Walker.
Poor Glamorgan fielding, with several dropped catches and a missed stumping, boosted Middlesex as Horley and Trussler put on 131 before the latter was stumped by Abbey Freeborn off the bowling of Eve Jackson.
Horley's innings was ended on 117 but she helped Middlesex set a tough target of 279.
They got their breakthrough in the fifth over when influential captain Lauren Parfitt was bowled by Siya Nanavati for eight.
Glamorgan's woes continued when the hard-hitting Daisy Jeanes was caught at mid-wicket off Issy Routledge.
The wickets continued to tumble when Horley followed up her century by taking the wickets of Bethan Ellis and Megan Sturge as Glamorgan slumped to 72-4.
A 72-run partnership between Freeborn and Gammon offered some hope, until the former was bowled by Anaya Patel for 43.
Glamorgan won the League Two T20 Blast but Hannah Davis extinguished any hopes of a double with two swift wickets, including the key one of Gammon when she was caught in the deep for 58.
It was fitting that Horley had the final say when she had Gemma Porter caught by Trussler.
Middlesex captain Saskia Horley said:
"It's been a long day and I'm quite sore, but I think today proved how good this side is and how we stay together as a unit in quite challenging times.
"We gave ourselves a platform to express ourselves, then all our bowlers did their job and that's what we've done all year.
"When we enjoy our cricket and we stick together as a group, these things can happen, a lot of girls have got jobs to go back to so enjoying it is phenomenal.
"That's my final game for Middlesex which is bitter-sweet, but I'll take in all of today and look back at these memories.
"There's such a bright squad, we've got kids in here who are learning so much and that's key in wanting to go professional.
"Glamorgan have got a phenomenal squad and I wish them good luck in Tier One, I think they'll compete really well."
Glamorgan vice-captain Bethan Gammon told BBC Sport Wales:
"It's gutting to have ended up on the wrong side of it but fair play to Middlesex and their skipper who played a phenomenal innings to come out victorious.
"If we could go back and do the fielding innings again we would, we missed a few chances and they took full advantage.
"We tried to go out and be positive, Daisy Jeanes got off to a good start, Abbey and myself built up a pretty good partnership but the rate (needed) gradually grew over time.
"It was an incredibly proud season for us to see this team continue to grow and young players continue to shine, we're continuing to develop a good team and a pathway to leave us in good stead for next year." %!s()
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