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Joe Root returns to England’s ODI squad but Ben Stokes not selected
Joe Root has been recalled to the England ODI side for the first time since the Jos Buttler-captained team put up an underwhelming ODI World Cup defence in November 2023.
England’s white-ball squads will depart for the sub-continent on 17 January under the new coach and captain combination of Brendon …
Rob Brydon: ‘Ruth Jones is the closest thing I have to a sister’
Born in Baglan, south Wales, in 1965, Rob Brydon’s father was a car salesman and his mother a teacher. He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama but left aged 20 to work for BBC Radio Wales. Jobs followed on regional TV, shopping channels and advert voiceovers, before …
Generation TikTok: how sportswomen set the bar higher than the men
Lina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was bored. “I said to Yemi Mary John: ‘I’m gonna make this TikTok’,” Nielsen recalls. She took herself to her bedroom, got out the flip …
Cladding, mould, £75,000 charges – welcome to life in a British leasehold flat
For many of the residents of Mar House, the past year has been spent in perpetual twilight.
The seven-storey block in Colindale, north London, is cloaked in blue netting and scaffolding that shroud its rooms in shadow in the middle of the day. The netting is for work to replace …
Mozambique on edge before ruling on disputed election results
Just 10 of 4,000 tainted blood victims have had compensation, campaigners say
Campaigners say they have been “disengaged” by the Labour government …
Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain’s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan
The sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect – the criminal Donald Trump – and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of realpolitik they probably feel they have no option.
The great American journalist HL Mencken did not live to see …
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It might seem odd to award the number one slot in the best films of 2024 list to a picture I first saw in May 2023, but Jonathan Glazer’s piercing portrait of the family of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf …
Sunday with Jeff Stelling: ‘I won’t have more than two beers’
Early riser?
I’ll often be wide awake at 4.30am. The elderly dogs, cocker spaniel Lottie and jackapoo Meg, need to go out to the garden. I go back to bed for a few hours after that. We live in a very rural area outside Winchester – it’s perfect for …