86 minutes ago Nickname Princess Diana used to keep her relationship with King Charles a secret

Lady Diana Spencer married the then-Prince of Wales in 1981 but employed a clever tactic to keep his identity a secret before their relationship became public knowledge

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3 hours ago Storm Ashley: 36 flood warnings issued as 80mph weather bomb barrels toward UK

The government Flood Forecasting Centre, which covers England and Wales, currently has 36 red 'flooding expected' warnings in place, as well as a 128 orange 'flooding is possible' alerts

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3 hours ago Sir Geoffrey Boycott sends England warning and questions Ben Stokes after Test collapse

England's batting tactics in their second Test defeat to Pakistan have been criticised by Sir Geoffrey Boycott who has aired his frustration with Ben Stokes' approach

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4 hours ago Brendon McCullum: Shoaib Bashir could earn vital experience with England Lions

The development side head Down Under for a red-ball tour in January, as McCullum continues to prepare the young spinner for an Ashes role next winter.

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4 hours ago Lauren James: ‘I know what winning feels like and I want to do that with England’

Chelsea star on her club’s new manager and how the Euros defence is motivating the forward to make historyThe one-on-one shooting drills have concluded, the coaches are collecting the footballs and maybe some of the watching parents are keen to get back inside in the warm, but none of these young players want to go anywhere just yet. A long, eager queue has formed. They all want their picture taken first with the England forward Lauren James.“Sometimes I forget how many people look up to me,” says James, pleasantly surprised, after helping out with the grassroots session at Worcester Park in south-west London. Perhaps it is also easy for the rest of us to forget that the Chelsea No 10, who has played 24 times for the Lionesses, only recently turned 23. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago ‘This is what happens when people fight back’: Ali Smith on standing up for justice

An act of resistance in 1920s Sicily was one of the inspirations for Ali Smith’s latest novel. The author describes her chance encounter with the Sacco family and why their story still resonatesLast December. Five days after Christmas. England under a louring sky. Beyond, immediate, invisible, pressing down on every single person on the planet, the current international constellation of authoritarians, beneath them the tens of thousands of the dead.In a liberal democratic time. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Weather: Met Office issues 'danger to life' warning as Storm Ashley barrels towards UK

The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning ahead of the first named storm of the season, which is set to hit the UK on Sunday.

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6 hours ago Storm Ashley sees 'weather bombs' forecast to batter UK as 80 mph winds on way

Storm Ashley is set to batter parts of the UK this weekend with amber and yellow weather warnings now in place for parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and northern England

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6 hours ago No Plan B: England women’s sorry T20 World Cup exit means it’s time for change

Lack of leaders exposes overreliance on the captain, Heather Knight, and the flaws in Jon Lewis’s easy-option coachingThe England women’s cricket team were touted as gold medal hopes at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. They didn’t even manage bronze. Heather Knight was ruled out on the eve of the tournament with a hip injury and the stand-in captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt, struggled to assert her authority: her wife, Katherine, was reprimanded for swearing on the field of play; England threw away their bronze-medal match against New Zealand; and Sophie Ecclestone was shown live on television knocking a chair over with her bat.Why hark back to something that happened more than two years ago? Because England’s disastrous group-stage exit from the T20 World Cup, at the hands of West Indi...

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