2 h. ago Scott Robertson already lined up for next job after Welsh coach's sudden exit

The 51-year-old has been sacked by the All Blacks after senior players reportedly raised issues in an end-of-year review

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7 h. ago All Blacks part ways with head coach Scott Robertson after damning review

Robertson had spent just two years in charge of New Zealand but has agreed to leave his role

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10 h. ago All Blacks coach Scott Robertson sacked after damning review

He has come under increasing pressure due to a series of significant defeats

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12 h. ago All Blacks begin search for new coach after ‘gutted’ Scott Robertson departs

Robertson leaves role two years into four-year contractDecision to part ways comes after internal NZR reviewScott Robertson has stepped down as New Zealand coach following an internal review of the All Blacks’ performance.Speculation over Robertson’s future has mounted since December amid reports of friction between senior players and All Blacks staff. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence

The death of a friend and the attempted murder of her husband Salman Rushdie loom large in the poet’s moving memoirThe night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a poem at the ceremony, but no one had heard from her. Her phone was going straight to voicemail and staff at her hotel said she hadn’t checked in. “We’ll find her. She wouldn’t miss your wedding,” Griffiths’s sister, Melissa, assured her. But the next afternoon, in the middle of her wedding reception, Griffiths learned that Moon had died alone at home in Atlanta of unknown causes. On hearing the news she collapsed, hit her head on a table and blacked out. Paramedics pried open her eyes to shine a torch on them: “A particle of light that is so distant from the world I once knew.”For Griffiths, 47, the death of her best friend and “chosen sister” was one in a series of upheavals stre...

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30 h. ago Welsh head coach steps away over health issue and All Blacks rocked by player revolt

The latest top rugby news stories from Wales and beyond today

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5 d. ago Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker held me. The cameras were off but I was shaking’

After roles in everything from ‘EastEnders’ to ‘Black Mirror’, the actor is now going head-to-head with Stephen Graham in the second round of ‘A Thousand Blows’. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about channelling trauma, on-set therapists, and his funny side

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5 d. ago Malachi Kirby: ‘The cameras were off at this point, but I was shaking’

After roles in everything from ‘EastEnders’ to ‘Black Mirror’, the actor is now going head-to-head with Stephen Graham in the second round of ‘A Thousand Blows’. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about channelling trauma, on-set therapists, and his funny side

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8 d. ago Rangers boss Danny Rohl hails ‘good human’ as he praises key backroom man’s stunning impact on club’s fortunes

DANNY ROHL hailed set-piece guru Scott Fry after Rangers moved into second place behind Hearts. Emmanuel Fernandez and Nico Raskin scored as the Ibrox men beat Aberdeen 2-0 to go above Celtic. Both goals came from first-half corners and Gers boss Rohl paid tribute to set-piece coach Fry’s influence. He said: “It’s very important. Scott...

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3 w. ago Black Friday Christmas jumpers, party dresses and silly dancing as thousands head for bars and clubs

It was one of the busiest party days of the year

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4 w. ago The 'first black Briton'...was white! Reanalysis of 'Beachy Head Woman' confirms she was from southern England and NOT sub

A woman billed as the 'earliest black Briton' was in fact white and from southern England, according to new DNA analysis.

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4 w. ago Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists

Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern EnglandBeachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.The mystery of the skeleton’s shifting identity was finally resolved after advances in DNA sequencing produced a high quality genetic readout from the remains. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Coach William! Prince of Wales joins forces with Lioness Jill Scott to guide a children's football match for new charity film

In a lighthearted video filmed in Surrey this autumn, Prince William and the women's football champion discuss the manifold benefits of having easy access to parks, playing fields and woods.

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