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The Breakdown | Unselfish yeomanry who carried England home deserved better from rugby
Rugby can be a tough game to play and, occasionally, a desperately tough subject to write about. Particularly when painful truths are being starkly outlined by the most honest, respected and outwardly resilient of men. And by individuals who, having lifted the 2003 Rugby Rugby World Cup, have enjoyed the …
Birmingham city council agrees deal over equal pay claims
Birmingham city council has reached an agreement to settle historical equal pay claims that left the authority with liabilities estimated at £760m and pushed it into effective bankruptcy.
Union leaders called it a “historic outcome” for women at the council that brought “pay justice within touching distance”, after the announcement …
Cost of average UK Christmas dinner up 6.5% as veg prices soar
The cost of an average Christmas dinner has surged 6.5% on last year, pushed up by hefty price rises on potatoes, cauliflower, carrots and parsnips.
UK shoppers will pay £32.57 for a festive meal for four, according to retail analysts at Kantar, spurred by a 16.3% jump in potato prices …
The Chiefs have 15 straight wins in one-score games. How do they get away with it?
The Kansas City Chiefs have been living a charmed life all season. Coming into Sunday night’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers, the two-time defending Super Bowl champions had already set an NFL record with victories in 14 straight one-score games. And their point differential of +54 was the worst …
UK would like to facilitate return of refugees to Syria, says minister
The Home Office would like to facilitate the return of refugees to Syria, a minister has said, saying about 6,500 asylum claims had been suspended as the government waited to assess the fallout from the end of the Assad regime.
The immigration minister Angela Eagle said many refugees had been …
Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in court to give evidence in his corruption trial
Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in court in Tel Aviv to give evidence in his long-running corruption trial, becoming the first sitting Israeli prime minister to take the stand as a criminal defendant.
The rightwing populist politician, who is also wanted under an international warrant issued by the ICC for alleged …
Six charged with being members of banned PKK group in London
Six people have been charged with being part of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) after an investigation by counter-terrorism police.
Turkan Ozcan, 59, Mazlum Sayak, 27, Berfin Kerban, 31, Ali Boyraz, 62, Ercan Akbal, 56, and Agit Karatas, 23, have been accused of being members of the proscribed group, …
Young Francophone Africans pack out poetry slams as region’s woes pile up
Clutching a microphone in one hand and pointing at the audience with the other, the Burkinabé poet and DJ Otemptic reeled about jihadism and women’s resilience in a patriarchal society to an audience of about 200 people at a slam at a venue in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
“I would like …
Thames Water will run out of cash by March without £3bn emergency funding
Thames Water will run out of cash by March next year if it fails to secure court approval for a £3bn financial lifeline, the troubled utilities company has said.
Britain’s biggest water supplier said on Tuesday that all of its funds may be “exhausted” if it fails to secure the …
‘Miraculous’: Syrians in UK tell of shock, joy, hopes and fears after fall of Assad
Before she fled Syria and came to the UK in 2016, Raya Homsi was told her fiance had been tortured to death in the Sednaya prison run by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. All she had to go on was the word of one person who said he had witnessed it.
Now, …