42 minutes ago South Africa vs New Zealand LIVE: Team news and updates from Women’s T20 World Cup final

Follow all the live action from the Women’s T20 World Cup final in Dubai

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56 minutes ago 'I took DNA test for fun – but I ended up in floods of tears and now live in fear'

A woman has revealed how she is living in fear her biological father will contact her after taking a DNA test for fun - as her mum admits to being a 'wild teenager'

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81 minutes ago Vale of Leven's Ladies side make history as they prepare for debut campaign

For the first time in the club’s 152 year history they will have a ladies team competing in the Scottish Women’s Recreational Football League this season, coached by Pam Kinnon and Ceiryn Fisher.

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1 hour ago Inside Antiques Roadshow expert Joanna Hardy's life from TV breakthrough and Australian husband

Joanna Hardy tends to keep her personal life private and rarely discusses her family, but the TV expert once shared how she met her husband while travelling from Sydney to Cape York in Australia.

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2 hours ago What do Lord Lucan, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Purves and Robbie Williams all have in common? Believe it or not, they were all in the frame to play James Bond!

Only six men can lay claim to wearing the famous Savile Row tuxedo of James Bond; more have stepped on the Moon. Yet hundreds more came within an inch of winning the coveted 007 role.

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2 hours ago NICOLA HORLICK: How do I tell my male boss to stop calling me sweetheart?

I'm a 25-year-old working in a leading professional services firm. My line manager swears a lot and calls women 'sweetheart', 'babes' or 'chicks'. I find it uncomfortable. What should I do?

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2 hours ago Man City v Aston Villa, Liverpool v Palace, West Ham v Arsenal: WSL clockwatch – live

Women’s Super League updates from Sunday’s gamesLive scoreboard | And mail Emillia with your thoughtsManchester City starting XI: Ayaka Yamashita; Kerstin Casparij, Laia Aleixandri, Alex Greenwood (C), Leila Ouahabi; Yui Hasegawa, Jill Roord, Jess Park; Mary Fowler, Lauren Hemp, Khadija Shaw.Aston Villa starting XI: Sabrina D’Angelo; Noelle Maritz, Lucy Parker, Anna Patten, Danielle Turner; Jordan Nobbs, Missy Bo Kearns, Katie Robinson; Kirsty Hanson, Gabi Nunes, Rachel Daly (C). Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Gender is going to be a huge factor in this election. Here’s what the data shows | Celinda Lake and Cate Gormley

Younger women are registering to vote at record rates – and tell pollsters that abortion rights are a crucial voting concernThe election for president ends in under a month, and voters in states across the country have begun casting early ballots. As we face what is shaping up to be the third presidential election that will come down to just tens of thousands of votes across a handful of key states, female voters, their concerns, and their judgments of the candidates will be decisive in the election.Polling shows that the gender gap, which we have seen in every presidential election since 1980, is at a record high. The gender gap, defined as the difference between the vote margin among women and the vote margin among men between Democrats and Republicans, is the key to success for Kamal...

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3 hours ago Nigel Slater’s recipes for sea bass with beans and tarragon, and pistachio tarts with blackberries

Autumn appetites call for a little more time in the kitchenI am not ready for winter food yet, but I need dishes that are more substantial than what has been on the table over the last few weeks. Time, I suppose, to get the jars of beans down from the cupboard, switch the oven on and get the baking recipes out.This week I had an autumnal dish of sea bass and beans on the hob. Scented with rosemary and tarragon, this was the first of the autumn fish dishes, more robust than grilled fish, but less hearty than a traditional fish pie. There was the herb-freckled broth, too, for which we needed deep-bowled spoons. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Jailed Tory councillor's wife who tweeted racial hatred 'to appeal sentence'

Lucy Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, said in an X post on July 29: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care... if that makes me racist so be it

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