73 m. ago Australia have been blessed by England’s disarray but can still put their stamp on Ashes triumph

Victory in the fifth Test would help hosts send off Usman Khawaja in style in Sydney and ensure England cannot recast series as one that got awayIf you had told Australian observers six months ago that their Test team in Sydney would involve Travis Head opening the batting with Jake Weatherald, Usman Khawaja at five, no Cameron Green, and some bowling combination of Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Todd Murphy and Brendan Doggett, they would have assumed disaster. Fifth Ashes Tests are the land of Scott Borthwick, of Boyd Rankin and Mason Crane: fringe players getting a glimpse at the wreckage after a series has crashed and burned.Khawaja was one such, in the debut reflected upon so much this week after his retirement announcement: the game when he replaced an injured Ricky Ponting after two Australian defeats by an innings, only to play in a third. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Bank holiday dates 2026 confirmed for UK but branded 'ludicrous'

Dates for people living in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have all been published with between eight and 10 days off depending where you live

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2 h. ago You can get to world's hottest city where fish boil in the sea for £78 this month

The city is, by some counts, the hottest in the world. However, in January, the coldest time of the year, the thermometer rarely rises much higher than 20 °C, while staying in the balmy mid-teens

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4 h. ago RICHARD KAY: The blueprint for Charles's annus mirabilis that could see a new home for Andrew and a big decision on Harry and Meghan

RICHARD KAY:There were times in the last tumultuous 12 months when the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor drama threatened to obliterate all the good works of the Royal Family

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4 h. ago Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter Victoria’s mugshot from 6 months before death emerges after arrest for domestic violence

THE daughter of Tommy Lee Jones was arrested over an alleged domestic violence dispute just six months before she was found dead in a hotel. Emergency services were called to the Fairmont in San Francisco in the early hours of Thursday, where paramedics found Victoria Jones unresponsive and later pronounced her dead, TMZ reported. It has now been revealed...

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5 h. ago PDC World Championship: Gian van Veen sets up final with Luke Littler

World No 1 Littler swats aside Ryan Searle 6-1 in semiVan Veen wins classic against Gary Anderson 6-3It’s barely a couple of years since a 16-year-old Luke Littler and a 21-year-old Gian van Veen came through a 96-player field at Milton Keynes to qualify for the final of the world youth championship. There’s a charming photo of the pair of them with their arms around each other, silly little smiles plastered on to their silly little faces, the cutest high-street haircuts you’ve ever seen. Two kids at the very start of an unforgettable journey.Did either of them foresee, in those sepia-tinted days of August 2023, that the journey would convey them this far, this fast? I reckon Littler did. There’s never been much room for doubt and scepticism in there. His whole world has been stepping up, throwing a dart and watching it go exactly where he wants it to. Four months later, he would go to Alexandra Palace and change the sport for ever. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Gian van Veen denies Gary Anderson in epic to set up final against Luke Littler

Van Veen wins classic against Gary Anderson 6-3World No 1 Littler swats aside Ryan Searle 6-1It’s barely a couple of years since a 16-year-old Luke Littler and a 21-year-old Gian van Veen came through a 96-player field at Milton Keynes to qualify for the final of the world youth championship. There’s a charming photo of the pair of them with their arms around each other, silly little smiles plastered on to their silly little faces, the cutest high-street haircuts you’ve ever seen. Two kids at the very start of an unforgettable journey.Did either of them foresee, in those sepia-tinted days of August 2023, that the journey would convey them this far, this fast? I reckon Littler did. There’s never been much room for doubt and scepticism in there. His whole world has been stepping up, throwing a dart and watching it go exactly where he wants it to. Four months later, he would go to Alexandra Palace and change the sport for ever. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago I make up to £10k a month including while I sleep – how YOU can earn thousands without lifting a finger in 2026 too

WOULD you like to make money while you sleep?   Steph Ward is one of ­thousands of people not lifting a finger while cash drops into the bank overnight.   The 34-year-old, from Market Rasen, Lincs, runs a coaching business and sells online courses — putting her in the ranks of those with “passive income”.  Here, Mel...

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6 h. ago World Darts Championship final date and start time for Luke Littler vs Gian van Veen

Luke Littler and Gian van Veen will go head-to-head in the World Darts Championship final at Alexandra Palace

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6 h. ago Tommy Lee Jones's late daughter Victoria pictured in MUGSHOT as grim new details of her final months emerge

Jones was found dead in a San Francisco hotel in the early hours of Thursday and now harrowing details of her troubled final months have come to light.

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6 h. ago Brits escape death sentence after smuggling £300k worth of cocaine in Angel Delight

Drug mules Lisa Stocker and Jon Collyer have been freed from their Bali prison hellhole, getting back to the UK within months despite risking the firing squad over their cocaine-smuggling scheme

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7 h. ago Ebanie Bridges, 39, weighs in for Alexis Araiza fight in pink lingerie just 10 MONTHS after giving birth

AUSTRALIAN boxer Ebanie Bridges will return to the ring on Saturday night just TEN months after giving birth - and she's doing it her way. The 39-year-old star will make her debut in Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions as she faces Alexis Araiza at bantamweight in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  And she weighed in for the...

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7 h. ago We Bury the Dead review – Daisy Ridley tackles the undead in solid zombie twist

Star Wars alum gives an impressively modest performance in this slightly smarter-than-average survival taleUnlike some other less resilient horror subgenres, the zombie movie is, fittingly, never going to really die. Neither will film-makers attempting to add their own twist, understandable given how repetitive the die, wake up, lumber, bite and repeat formula has become. Australian director Zak Hilditch’s attempt, the rather buried We Bury the Dead, is therefore not quite as striking as it might have seemed a decade and change ago. Using words such as “contemplative” and “mournful” to describe a film that includes its fair share of gnarly head-smashing has become something of a cliche, so much so that last month’s meta-comedy Anaconda reboot had its characters joke that these days, even a film about a giant snake needs “intergenerational trauma” to work.But Hilditch mercifully avoids drowning his film in drab self-seriousness. Yes, it’s a zombie survival thriller that’s also about ...

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8 h. ago 'Joyful, giggly' baby girl who didn't wake up on Christmas Day

Bonnie Rae's family is distraught after the four month old's tragic death

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8 h. ago Tommy Lee Jones's late daughter Victoria pictured in MUGSHOT as as grim new details of her final months emerge

Jones was found dead in a San Francisco hotel in the early hours of Thursday and now harrowing details of her troubled final months have come to light.

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9 h. ago Ruben Amorim 'given green light' for free transfer after Man Utd's summer decision

Manchester United have been linked with AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan, who is in the final six months of his contract and could leave on a free transfer this summer

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9 h. ago Coronation Street star warns David and Shona will 'unravel' in Corriedale fallout

Coronation Street star Julia Goulding told The Mirror that in the aftermath of Corriedale, David and Shona Platt will find their lives 'unraveling' across the coming months

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9 h. ago Voices: Keir Starmer’s promise to deliver should have brought results by now

Editorial: The embattled prime minister is much more clear-eyed about the scale of the task ahead of him than many believe – but knowing what to do is not the same as getting on and doing it

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9 h. ago Drug mule Brits check in at Business Class desk to fly home after dodging Bali execution

An exclusive photo obtained by the Mirror shows Lisa Stocker 40, and her partner, Jon Collyer, 39, at the priority counter in Bali - just four months after they were jailed for a £300,000 cocaine plot

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9 h. ago YouTuber to fight adult star who slept twice with his wife in headline boxing match

YouTube star Adam22 is set to finally settle his explosive feud with adult actor Jason Luv in the boxing ring after months of public drama over Luv twice filming scenes with Adam’s wife

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