51 m. ago South Africa v Australia: World Test Championship final cricket, day two – live

Updates from the second day of the WTC final at Lord’sRead the latest edition of The Spin | And mail GeoffHello from London. The day dawns sunny here, though who knows which way it will turn – Lord’s atmospherics are often a game of snakes and ladders. So too can be Test cricket, as South Africa found yesterday: racing up the ladder of the Australian top order, sliding back thanks to Steve Smith, ascending again to bowl them out for 212, then having a serious slip of four wickets before stumps.They didn’t fall all the way back to the bottom, but they will if David Bedingham and the captain Temba Bavuma go quickly this morning. Rung by rung it will need to be for the South Africans, at 43 for 4. Continue reading...

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55 m. ago Glastonbury warning over 'highly infectious disease' as festival

Health officials have issued a warning about a 'circulating' infection ahead of Glastonbury and other festivals this summer

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55 m. ago Tory MP who pursued suspected thief down London street and secured arrest praised for getting 'stuck in'

Shadow minister Gareth Davies got ‘stuck in’ when he witnessed crime in Maida Vale on Saturday

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63 m. ago Weather maps show where 40mm of rain will fall in Wales today

A yellow weather warning has been issued by the Met Office with heavy rain to hit in the coming hours

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72 m. ago Spending review in five charts: Who are the winners and losers in Rachel Reeves’ plan?

Departmental spending will increase by 2.3 per cent each year, with some areas seeing real-terms losses, writes Alicja Hagopian

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74 m. ago Met Office latest on when rain will hit Manchester over Parklife weekend

It could be a mixed bag over the next few days

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76 m. ago Cal review – grieving Helen Mirren superb in compassionate Troubles romance

Mirren won best actress at Cannes in 1984 for her role as Marcella, who forms a relationship with John Lynch’s Cal – a man complicit in her husband’s murderPat O’Connor’s Northern Irish movie from 1984, adapted by author Bernard MacLaverty from his own novel, holds up very well for its rerelease; better in fact than most of the movies and TV drama made about and during the Troubles. It has an unhurried, thoughtful and very human quality; Helen Mirren won the best actress award at Cannes for her performance here and in fact it is very well acted across the board by a blue-chip cast.Mirren plays Marcella, a woman from a Catholic background, married across the sectarian divide to a reserve police officer murdered at his parents’ farmhouse by an IRA man who had bullied a bewildered local guy into being his getaway driver; this is Cal, played by the gauntly intense John Lynch. Cal lives with his widowed father; a gentle performance by Donal McCann, who was Gabriel Conroy in John Huston’s...

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76 m. ago Met Office predicts 29C on Friday but heavy rain and thunder on its way

High temperatures, heavy showers and thunder is forecast as we head towards the weekend

Politics

78 m. ago Manchester United new home kit for 2025/2026 season revealed

Man Utd have officially revealed their new home kit for the 2025/2026 season and it's available to buy around the world.

Politics

2 h. ago Oklahoma inmate to be executed after Trump officials expedited order

He was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping, and murder in 1999

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2 h. ago Former Cardiff Bay office building being turned into much needed council homes for families

Cardiff Council has acquired the Scott Harbour building where it will provide 78 apartments

Society

2 h. ago Vladimir Putin’s war sees one million Russians dead & wounded as death toll mounts

Russia has paid a high price for its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine after Ukrainian officials revealed they have lost one million young men and women since the conflict began

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2 h. ago London Bridge clue stumps champ on Jeopardy! as new contestant dominates

London Bridge clue stumps champ on Jeopardy! as new contestant dominates  Havasu News

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2 h. ago JoJo Siwa reveals bombshell admission to her parents about Chris Hughes

JoJo Siwa has shared a telling message about her relationship with Chris Hughes just weeks after the pair made their romance official after huge speculation in the Celebrity Big Brother house

Events

2 h. ago Strawberry Moon rises over London as 'breathtaking' views shared on social media

At one stage the Strawberry Moon looked as if it was sitting in Canary Wharf

Politics

2 h. ago Blow for Rachel Reeves after UK economy shrinks by more than expected

The UK economy contracted by 0.3% in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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2 h. ago Gurel, Oro Shine As World Rapid Team Championship Begins In London

Gurel, Oro Shine As World Rapid Team Championship Begins In London  Chess.com

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2 h. ago ‘London Rules the World’ at Saatchi Yates: artists celebrate

‘London Rules the World’ at Saatchi Yates: artists celebrate  wallpaper.com

Culture

3 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Severe delays on Mildmay and Windrush lines

The capital’s latest travel updates

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3 h. ago Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss

Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novelClaire Adam’s 2019 novel Golden Child was her debut, but it felt like the work of a master. It was tender, ravishing, shattering – you believed every word of it. The book had an effortless narrative authority that most first-time novelists would kill for.Love Forms is every bit as alive and convincing, and returns us to Trinidad, with its potent fizz of colour, heat and political instability. But unlike the earlier book, it’s also set partly in south London – the writer’s own home turf – and has a mother, rather than a father, at its heart. Continue reading...

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