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Sifan Hassan rejects greatest-ever claim and confirms London Marathon entry
Sifan Hassan has dismissed suggestions that she is the greatest female distance runner of all time despite winning Olympic marathon gold and 10,000m and 5,000m bronze medals over six extraordinary days in Paris.
That made the Dutch athlete, who has just been announced as the star attraction for this year’s …
Delayed Scottish ferry finally sets sail to Isle of Arran – almost seven years late
It set sail nearly seven years late but in the event proved its worth. After quelling stormy seas that left two other ferries sheltering in harbour, the Glen Sannox is finally serving islanders on Arran.
As if to prove its durability, some passengers on its first scheduled voyage at dawn …
Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone sited next to new reservoir
Labour’s first artificial intelligence growth zone will be sited next to the UK’s first new reservoir in 30 years, sparking fears that the AI push will add to the “severe pressure” on water supplies in the area.
A man has been charged with attempting to murder a nurse who suffered “life-changing” injuries after being stabbed in a hospital’s acute medicine ward.
The healthcare worker, who has not been named, remains in a critical condition after the attack at the Royal Oldham hospital in Greater Manchester on Saturday …
Key takeaways from Keir Starmer’s action plan for AI
The UK government has unveiled a
to boost the country’s role in developing and deploying artificial intelligence. The 50 recommendations fromthe report
, written by the tech investor Matt Clifford, have been endorsed by Keir Starmer, who says the technology will drive “incredible …Fist pumps, nods and whispers: Djokovic and Murray double act passes its first test
In a quiet corner of the player warm-up gym on Monday afternoon in Melbourne Park, one of the countless invasive cameras dotted around the tournament area captured a significant moment. After 24 years of sharing the same locker room as adversaries, of avoiding eye-contact before their matches and staying out …
Top-rated Jonbon and Energumene primed for ‘historic’ Ascot showdown
The Clarence House Chase has been frozen out of its traditional Ascot home in the two seasons since Shishkin and Energumene fought out a memorable battle on the run-in in 2022, but this year a thaw seems to have arrived just in time and the stage is set for another …
Wildcard winners give Australian fans reasons for optimism in Melbourne
They might be tennis has-beens, nobodies or late-bloomers, but there is not an “average Joe” among them. The unheralded Australians have given local fans reason for optimism this week as the grand slam at Melbourne Park gets going.
While long runs are expected from Australia’s three seeds Alex de Minaur, …
‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime
James Warren
, vocalist/bassist/songwriter
We’d had a Top 20 single in the UK with If I Had You and were recording our second Korgis album, Dumb Waiters. I was living in Bath and had a piano in the flat that I couldn’t really play – I am a guitarist and bass …
‘It’s been a blast’: Tyson Fury retires from boxing again
The former world heavyweight boxing champion posted a video on social media while sat in a car announcing that he would quit …