35 h. ago NSW Waratahs v British & Irish Lions: rugby union tour match – live

Updates from this 11am BST kick-off in SydneyEmail Lee | Sign up for The Breakdown newsletterYour views are always welcome and today is no exception so send them to me on the Email. I may even tolerate Owen Faz chat, but don’t bank on it.Rotation once more as the fixtures pile up quickly for Andy Farrell and the Lions, made more tricky by Henry Pollock withdrawing with a tight calf late on. Apparently it’s ‘precautionary’. Tadhg Beirne will have the honour of captaining from six, Scott Cummings now starts in the second row and Duhan van der Merwe comes onto the bench. Hugo Keenan has his first start of the tour at fullback along with Blair Kinghorn on the wing, while Fin Smith returns at stand-off. Continue reading...

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Arsenal want to sign Valencia defender Cristhian Mosquera while Patrick Vieira could lend the Gunners a helping hand, as he wants to sign three of their players

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2 d. ago Mum's disturbing internet searches 'before plot to kill son's wife with rat poison'

Elizabete Arrabaça and her son Luiz Antonio Garnica are accused of killing his wife Larissa Rodrigues in Brazil earlier this year so he could be with his lover

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3 d. ago Doctor and mum 'killed wife with rat poison' so he could be with mistress

A Brazilian doctor is accused of enlisting the help of his mum to dose his wife with poison as detectives discovered 'ways to poison someone' and 'rat poison' in his mother's internet searches

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3 d. ago British and Irish Lions team vs Waratahs: Blair Kinghorn and Hugo Keenan set for debuts in Sydney

Ben White to also make first Lions appearance off bench as captaincy handed to Tadhg Beirne

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3 d. ago Race against time to save terrified lions facing 'shelling every day' in Ukraine

Natalia Popova, a Ukrainian rescue worker, said animals are facing 'shelling every day', which has prompted some to fling themselves at their cage bars and refuse to eat

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4 d. ago British and Irish Lions star owns up to bedroom blunder after arriving late to camp

Blair Kinghorn was the last member of the British and Irish Lions squad to arrive and as soon as he checked into the team hotel waltzed into his room and accidentally woke up Maro Itoje

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5 d. ago Blair Kinghorn gets helping hand from mum and wife in race to join Lions

Kinghorn wakes up Itoje as he arrives for Australia tour

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5 d. ago Blair Kinghorn gives Lions skipper Maro Itoje a rude awakening

Kinghorn has now arrived in Australia for the British and Irish Lions tour after winning the French Top 14 title with Toulouse

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5 d. ago Blair Kinghorn arrives to complete Lions set as Queensland Reds await

Scotland full-back earmarked for weekend matchUntested pairing of Gibson-Park and Russell face RedsTo say the last couple of days have been a blur for Blair Kinghorn is putting it mildly. As recently as the early hours of Sunday he was celebrating Toulouse’s Top 14 title success in Paris and doing interviews clad only in a pair of budgie smugglers. Now here he is wearing a British & Irish Lions tracksuit, squinting into the Australian sunshine and trying his hardest to focus on the next onrushing target.The Scotland full-back, the last originally-chosen squad member to arrive, will not be involved in the Lions’ midweek game against the Reds but is earmarked to feature against the Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday. All being well a potential slot in the Test XV could follow but even for a class act like Kinghorn it is going to take a lot of frantic paddling below the surface to get up to speed. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Sue Barker received email from Judy Murray after Andy and wife watched 'embarrassing' clip

Sue Barker spent almost 30 years as the face of the BBC's Wimbledon coverage, and she was left red-faced when one example of her passionate support was sent to Andy Murray's wife and mum

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6 d. ago I do not need a £100 hairbrush. So why have I spent so long fantasising about one?

I think it’s my way of avoiding my feelings – and that whatever they are, I’d be better off facing up to themI recently found myself fantasising about buying a hairbrush that costs more than £100. It is a very beautiful hairbrush: it comes in a choice of seductive colours and it is fashioned from the keratin-rich fibres of south-east Asian boar and from biodegradable cellulose acetate (entirely free of petrochemicals). It was advertised to me on social media and I later sought it out, Googling it again and again, admiring photos of it from different angles and imagining the reassuring weight of its handle in my hand. If ever there were a hairbrush that could help me build a better life, I thought, this surely would be it.How disturbingly close I came to buying this hairbrush I really cannot say. However, I can tell you when I knew that it was never going to happen. It was just now, when I realised with shock, after months of Googling and ogling, that I don’t use a hairbrush. I haven...

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7 d. ago Blair Kinghorn delays Lions flight after going distance in extra

Toulouse player will be last player to link up with Farrell’s original squad

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7 d. ago Glory for Blair Kinghorn but Toulouse need extra time in Top 14 final classic

Holders prevail as Jonny Gray and Bordeaux are edged out in Paris

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8 d. ago Tomos Williams injury leaves Farrell’s Lions facing race to fill scrum

Scotland’s Ben White could come in from New ZealandFarrell: ‘We fixed things up and played some good rugby’The British & Irish Lions are weighing up their scrum-half options after an injury to Tomos Williams that threatens to sideline the Welshman at the busiest stage of the squad’s Australian tour.The head coach, Andy Farrell, said a decision on calling up a replacement would be made on Sunday, with Scotland’s Ben White among the leading contenders to replace Williams at No 9. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Blair Kinghorn v Jonny Gray as French rugby's big night throws up surprise selection

Scotland team-mates go head to head in Top 14 final

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9 d. ago Gareth Thomas backs Blair Kinghorn to shine on late link up with British and Irish Lions Tour

Scotland full-back Blair Kinghorn, who will run out at the Stade de France on Saturday night for the Top 14 final for club side Toulouse against European champions Bordeaux.

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