56 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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61 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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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 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

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3 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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3 h. ago ‘London Rules the World’ at Saatchi Yates: artists celebrate

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

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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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3 h. ago Deep Cover review – Bryce Dallas Howard leads improv actors into London’s underground

Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed star in an entertaining odd-trio crime caper with turns by Sean Bean and Paddy Considine Producer and screenwriter Colin Trevorrow has co-created this amiable, high-concept action comedy about three hapless improv actors dragooned into going into deep cover to bust a drug ring. It’s entertaining, though I think some of the cast understand comedy better and more instinctively than others. It’s set in London (though Trevorrow might originally have imagined it set in LA or New York) and the credit is shared with his longtime writing partner Derek Connolly, and also with Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen, the funny British double act known as the Pin, who also amusingly appear as two squabbling coppers with a Mitchell and Webb energy. The director is the talented Tom Kingsley, who has a substantial TV career and with Will Sharpe got a Bafta nomination in 2012 for the dark comedy Black Pond.Bryce Dallas Howard plays Kat, an American actor whose caree...

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4 h. ago West London couple used Apple AirTag to retrieve stolen Jaguar

West London couple used Apple AirTag to retrieve stolen Jaguar  BBC

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4 h. ago Katherine Ryan's London: Mexican food, Claridge's and Costco

Katherine Ryan's London: Mexican food, Claridge's and Costco  London Evening Standard

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4 h. ago Meet the Palm Beach real estate star taking on the London property market for new TV show

Billy Nash’s new TV show aims to take buyers under the skin of destinations around the world

Culture

4 h. ago Katherine Ryan's guide to London: margs at La Bodega Negra and breakfast in bed at Claridge's

The comedian and podcast host on why she loves hip Crouch End, hates men in lycra — and the Mexican spot she can’t get enough of

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4 h. ago Rachel Roddy’s salad of hazelnuts, gorgonzola and honey dressing | A kitchen in Rome

Some dishes make a lasting impression, and this week two memorable creations from Rome and London meet to inspire a nutty salad of creamy gorgonzola and mixed leavesRecently, I listened to the Italian chefs Niko Romito and Salvatore Tassa in conversation about Italian food culture, and in particular the role of the trattoria. During the warm conversation, Romito, who is one of Italy’s most visionary chefs and whose Ristorante Reale in Abruzzo has three Michelin stars, spoke about the first time he ate at Tassa’s Nu’ Trattoria Italiana dal 1960 in Acuto, which is in the province of Frosinone about an hour south of Rome. Romito recalled the homely atmosphere and Tassa as an old-school host: welcoming, communicative and the conduit (which didn’t sound pretentious when he said it) between local traditions, producers and those who came to eat. But Romito also described a dish of onions, simply braised, but of such goodness that he couldn’t stop thinking about and imagining them. In fact,...

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4 h. ago Rising unpaid debts in London fuels demand for professional debt collection

Rising unpaid debts in London fuels demand for professional debt collection  Richmond & Twickenham Times

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5 h. ago City firms order workers back to the office as WFH perks end

Office space is increasingly in demand in London as financial companies reverse pandemic working policies

Economics

6 h. ago Cricket WAG Emma Lyon stuns in designer outfit as she watches hubby Nathan play in London

Cricket WAG Emma Lyon stuns in designer outfit as she watches hubby Nathan play in London - and you won't beli  Daily Mail

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8 h. ago New London police investigating shots fired incident on Riverview Avenue

New London police investigating shots fired incident on Riverview Avenue  Trumbull Times

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8 h. ago Orlando Bloom's just paid £10,000 to have his blood 'cleaned'

Bloom recently headed to London's Clarify Clinic for a £10,000 procedure where a machine supposedly removed the microplastics from his blood.

Economics

9 h. ago Stormzy takes on Hollywood with Merky films and teams with Oscar winner

South London rapper launches #Merky films to champion new talent and lands his lead role debut in a short film by an Oscar winning director. The film is shot entirely on an Apple Iphone.

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