56 m. ago England set South Africa target of 415 to win third men’s one

Updates from the match in Southampton (11am BST)You can email Tanya | Report: South Africa seal seriesAn interesting chat between Nick Knight, Shaun Pollock and Mike Atherton. Athers says that England are trying to bring the ODI and Test teams together whilst treating the T20 side as a different entity. That’s sensible on paper, he says, but brings a “real challenge because of the amount and volume of Test cricket England play. They are going to have to be quite strong about where their players play franchise cricket.”South Africa: Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Temba Bavuma (capt),Matthew Breetzke, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Wiann Mulder, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Codi Yusuf, Nandre Burger. Continue reading...

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71 m. ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Remote mountain's new handrail ridiculed as 'vandalism of the natural environment'

The roped support was spotted by a regular hiker in the mountains but there is a good reason for its existence

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2 h. ago ‘It’s my second home!’ Gen Z and the sudden, surprising boom of luxury gyms

Expensive fitness facilities might seem a tough sell in a cost of living crisis. But for young people in crowded or dilapidated house shares, the high price for a haven can be worth payingThe best part of Owen Willis’s day is his morning shower. Notes of lavender and eucalyptus waft through his private, stone-tiled shower room as he uses a £32 bottle of Cowshed bodywash. He dries off with a fluffy white towel before slathering on Cowshed body lotion (£24).This isn’t Willis’s home, however. It’s his gym. He belongs to Third Space in London, which calls itself a “luxury health club”. Memberships start at £230 a month for an individual site and go as high as £305 for access to all of its branches, including the Mayfair club, where gym-goers can expect “UV-treated fresh air” and “a Himalayan sea-salt walled sauna and steam room”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Coronation Street’s Katherine Kelly looks back: ‘My friends were very accepting of me being a bit different’

The actor on wearing men’s clothes, her bohemian family and the six-week soap job that turned into six yearsBorn in 1979 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, Katherine Kelly studied at Rada before beginning her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and going on to perform at the National Theatre and Manchester’s Royal Exchange. Her first major television role came in 2006, when she joined Coronation Street as Becky McDonald, a part she played until 2012. Since then she has appeared in The Night Manager, Gentleman Jack, Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Inside No 9. She stars in In Flight, available now on Channel 4.This is a very typical image of me aged four. I spent most of my preschool life with a towel on my head. It was a replacement for the long hair I so desperately wanted. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'I'm too hot to get a job – employers can't see past my curves'

Busty Alê Gaúcha, 21, says her curves have drawn more attention than her qualifications after failing to land a job as a nanny so turned her hand to creating adult content

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2 h. ago Beloved Midsomer Murders star among favourites to replace detective as female lead

A Midsomer Murders star is one of the bookmakers' favourites to replace Daniel Casey as DS Gavin Troy in the new stage play of the ITV drama

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2 h. ago Ruben Amorim warned he 'can't play' Man Utd star again because of big weakness

Ruben Amorim has been dealing with a crisis in goal at Manchester United after seeing poor displays from Andre Onana and Altay Bayindir, but signed young Senne Lammens to provide another option

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2 h. ago Midsomer Murders star 'set to return' to replace beloved detective as female lead

Midsomer Murders star Kirsty Dillon is one of the bookmakers' favourites to replace Daniel Casey as DS Gavin Troy in the new stage play of the ITV drama

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3 h. ago Vicious murder gang hunted as two young boys killed and 'one's hand cut off'

Two young boys were brutally killed in a quiet suburb by a 'group of eight masked gang members wielding machetes long edged weapons' - the attacker allegedly cut off a victim's hand off

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3 h. ago Ibiza crash horror as Brit woman and two other tourists mown down by car

The accident happened this morning at around 11.15am opposite the busiest beach of the Playa des Pouet resort, which was packed with tourists at the time

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3 h. ago Scotland team to play Belarus: Big Scott McTominay call, unleash BGD, huge decision in attack

Our man in Zalaegerszeg puts together his Scotland XI for our next World Cup qualifier

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3 h. ago Dubai jailed Brit Mia O'Brien gives heartbreaking take on prison hell

University student Mia O'Brien was handed a life sentence in Dubai after she was caught with cocaine in October, according to her devastated mum

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3 h. ago Sweet moment Kate Middleton receives three cheers from delighted Australian rugby players after surprising them in their locker room after England game

In a sweet moment the Princess of Wales was met with cheers and admiration from the Australian women's rugby team after a gripping World Cup clash against England on Saturday

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4 h. ago 'I ordered egg burger at local chippy and can't believe what I was handed'

A man from Northern Ireland was left baffled after his chippy order didn't turn out the way he had planned, and it's left people divided over who was in the wrong

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4 h. ago Mahmood will be ‘just as tough’ on Palestine Action as Cooper, Healey says

John Healey suggested supporters of the group would need to face consequences in order to avoid ‘two-tier policing.’

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4 h. ago US Open final awkward scenes as interviewer cut off twice by finalists

Aryna Sabalenka won her second US Open title with a 6-3, 7-6 victory over Amanda Anisimova at Flushing Meadows on Saturday night, with both players cutting off the interviewer

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4 h. ago EA FC 26 Rivals changes explained – how Bounties, Duels, and Limited Checkpoints will work

Rivals is one of the most popular ways to play Ultimate Team, and it's set for a revamp in EA FC 26

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4 h. ago Manchester United handed fresh deadline for Andre Onana transfer as Trabzonspor wait

Manchester United transfer latest with Andre Onana linked with a loan exit

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4 h. ago Vernon Kay says ‘I just got fired’ after branding BBC Radio 2 co

Vernon Kay playfully flattered his BBC Radio 2 in the Park co-cost Michelle Visage during their Saturday show, before cheekily hinting at the consequences he might face for the compliment

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