6 h. ago Meet the British shot put champion doubling up as a bobsleigh pilot with an eye on Milan 2026

Having won her third British shot put title in four seasons in the summer, Adele Nicoll also has a Winter Olympic dream – and admits she’s ‘terrible for wanting to do everything’Walking through the University of Bath’s vast sports complex to Britain’s only bobsleigh push-start track, a momentary silence is broken by the thwack of a ball and hearty cheers from excited adolescent spectators.It is the first Wednesday afternoon – when inter-university sport takes centre stage – of the academic year, and Adele Nicoll is reflecting on how her own undergraduate days inadvertently led her to this point. Nicoll, then a sport and exercise science student at Cardiff University, had an eye on making it as an international shot putter, but not to the detriment of enjoying all aspects of university life; she played as hard as she worked. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Clever strategy 'doubles' your 2026 annual leave to 63 days off

People can be smart with a strategy to get the same holidays to feel a little bit longer

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6 d. ago Bukayo Saka believes England and Arsenal double is possible in 2026

Arsenal are top of the Premier League and England are among the favourites to secure World Cup success in 2026.

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7 d. ago 10 lucky countries where people get far more days off a year than UK

10 countries offer a lot more annual leave than workers in the UK are entitled to

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8 d. ago Expert explains how you can more than double your days off work in 2026

With the clocks turned back and the nights getting darker, many of us will be looking ahead to some days in the sun next year.

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1 week ago Tour de France 2026 routes unveiled as men face epic Alpe d’Huez double and women take on mighty Mont Ventoux

Back-to-back summit finishes on Alpe d’Huez will likely decide the destiny of the 2026 yellow jersey, while Mont Ventoux features in the Tour de France Femmes for the first time

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1 week ago Tour de France unveils 2026 route with double Alpe d’Huez for men and Ventoux debut for women

Men’s race starts in Barcelona on 4 JulyWomen’s race starts in Lausanne on 1 AugustThe routes of the 2026 men’s and women’s Tours de France, revealed in Paris on Thursday morning, will climax on two of the most famous climbs in world cycling, Alpe d’Huez and Mont Ventoux.The mountains will host key stages, with the Ventoux featuring in the Tour de France Femmes for the first time and a double stage finish to the ski station at Alpe d’Huez providing the pivotal moment in the 113th running of the men’s race. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Riders set for double climb up Alpe d’Huez as 2026 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes routes unveiled

Back-to-back summit finishes on Alpe d’Huez will likely decide the destiny of the 2026 yellow jersey, while Mont Ventoux features in the Tour de France Femmes for the first time

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2 w. ago Here's how to get 57 days of annual leave in 2026 – and where to go

Loveholidays has revealed exactly how to maximise your leave next year

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2 w. ago 'Fairytale' European Christmas market holiday makes perfect winter weekend away

The festive period is a hectic time, and what better way to blow off steam than with a holiday? If you plan it right, you can take this Christmas market trip without using any annual leave

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3 w. ago A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late

Dynamic pricing, crypto detritus and corporate doublespeak have made the task of buying 2026 World Cup tickets a grim case study in the monetization of emotionWhen the first tickets for the 2026 World Cup went on sale last week, millions of fans joined online queues only to discover what Gianni Infantino’s assurance that “the world will be welcome” really means. The cheapest face-value seat for next summer’s final, somewhere in the gods of New Jersey’s 82,500-seat MetLife Stadium where the players are specks and the football’s a rumor, comes at a cost of $2,030 (oxygen tank not included). Most upper-deck seats range from $2,790 to $4,210, according to customers who finally glimpsed the prices that had been closely guarded. The much-touted $60 tickets for group-stage games, propped up by Fifa as evidence of affordability, exist only as comically tiny green smudges on the edge of digital seating maps, little more than mirages of inclusivity.Fifa had kept the costs under wraps until th...

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3 w. ago Almost half of Brits would take a pay cut for unlimited holiday

Most Brits are restricted to a set number of annual leave days, and have to ask their employer for permission to take them. But new data suggests employees desire more.

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4 w. ago Badenoch’s position on human rights convention ‘very worrying’, Sinn Fein says

Mrs Badenoch kicked off the annual Tory conference in Manchester with a pledge to leave the ECHR.

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