29 m. ago England v France: Women’s Six Nations grand slam decider – live

Live news from the 4.45pm BST kick-off at TwickenhamSarah Rendell’s preview | And you can drop Luke an emailThere are two games to think about at Twickenham on Saturday, the one the Red Roses will play in, and the one they want to play in. The first is their grand slam decider against France, which kicks off at 4.45pm. The second – at the same venue, five months and one day later – is the World Cup final which, if everything goes as the team hopes at the Stadium of Light, Franklin’s Gardens, Ashton Gate and the other grounds they will visit between now and then, will be the next game they play at the home of English rugby.Mitchell makes nine changes. The women’s world player of the year, Ellie Kildunne, is ruled out by injury so Gloucester-Hartpury’s Emma Sing will start at full-back. Continue reading...

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41 m. ago Driver ‘faces off’ with Just Stop Oil protesters on ‘last day of action’

Just Stop Oil announced the group would stop direct action after it had won its demand to end new oil and gas.

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47 m. ago Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, a dancer with a 40-ft braid attached to her head glided across a narrow concrete walkway. The audience sat on chairs in front of a long wooden building: a former detention center where – from 1910 to 1940 – half a million people, the majority Chinese, were held for months, even years, in prison-like conditions.Sometimes called “the Ellis Island of the west”, Angel Island’s immigration station is the unlikely setting, and inspiration, for an ambitious new work by the Oakland Ballet Company. It’s based on the people from 80 countries who were confined to the the island’s detention center, which was the result of the Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist laws designed to keep Asian people out of the United States. In response, the detainees carved over 200 p...

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77 m. ago Funeral of Pope Francis: John Swinney at 'very moving' funeral as Scots mark death of Pope

"Although it's a sad day for the Catholic Church , it's a day where we can celebrate a great leader, so we want to be part of it."

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85 m. ago Championship roundup: Luton stun Coventry in huge boost to survival hopes

Baptiste’s 90th-minute winner hurts City’s playoff oddsPromoted Burnley rout QPR 5-0 to improve title chancesLuton climbed out of the Championship’s bottom three for the first time since January thanks to Shandon Baptiste’s 90th-minute goal as they beat playoff-chasing Coventry 1-0 in a game where both sides had a man sent off.Luton looked as if they would go to West Brom next weekend with their destiny definitely out of their own hands, only for Baptiste, who had been on the field for just 11 minutes, to find the net and lift the roof off Kenilworth Road. Continue reading...

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91 m. ago How common is YOUR wedding day? Use our tool to find out how many couples you share your anniversary with...

Did you get married on August 28? If the answer's 'yes', you have the most common anniversary, according to official statistics.

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98 m. ago India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack

Tensions between the nuclear-armed countries have escalated after attack killed 26 people in disputed territory Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged gunfire across the volatile frontier in Kashmir for a second day, amid spiralling tensions after a brazen attack that killed 26 people at a popular tourist resort.The massacre has sent relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours into a dangerous downward spin. India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two over Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is divided between them but claimed fully by both. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Liverpool star Darwin Nunez appears to delete tweet calling out Arne Slot decision

Darwin Nunez appeared to criticise his manager Arne Slot in a swiftly-deleted and cryptic post on social media, the day before Liverpool's match against Tottenham

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2 h. ago Bookies reveal fresh new Pope odds but punters in one country are banned from betting

Bookies are getting their odds in order for the cardinals hoping to step up following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, which the secretive conclave process beginning

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3 h. ago Bestselling Dr. Martens sandals that are 'so comfy from day one' are slashed by £42

Dr. Martens has discounted the price of its iconic Gryphon sandals by £42 in time for summer, and shoppers have been praising their sturdiness and comfortability

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3 h. ago The dos and don’ts of good petiquette: four cardinal rules for dog owners

Dog walks can be a fraught time for both humans and their unruly friends, but follow these well-learned good behaviours and you’ll be the envy of the parkAcross the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, Naseby Park is the place we return to, my dog and I. Surrounded by red sandstone tenements in Glasgow’s West End, and roughly the size of a football pitch, this is where we first walked our four-year-old labrador Brèagha (Scots Gaelic for beautiful and she is, uncommonly so, thanks for asking). All I know about the etiquette of dog walking has been gleaned from the humans and animals who have paced its perimeter with us, and these are cardinal rules I have learned Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Bonnie Blue told to delete video of her performing act on monkey by animal charity

EXCLUSIVE: from hitting records for sleeping with the most men in one day, to buying a Rolex and branding it a 'basic purchase' – Bonnie Blue has topped her crazy antics with a complaint from a charity

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3 h. ago She should have been able to trust him but instead 'lived in fear' every day

Ben Carr has now been locked up

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4 h. ago Sir Richard Branson's wife saved him from 'wardrobe malfunction' in full Crystal Palace kit

Back in the day when shirt sponsorship of football clubs cost thousands not millions, Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson planned to strip off on live television to reveal a full Crystal Palace kit - but it nearly ended in disaster

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4 h. ago Martin Lewis explains how people born between these years can get free railcard

If you were born between certain years, you could be eligible to claim a free railcard after following a few steps

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4 h. ago Kelly Brook lays bare agonising truth of London Marathon training with injury update

Kelly Brook has been training hard for the London Marathon but the former model has been left in agony as she revealed the injuries she has been left with ahead of the big day

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4 h. ago Disgusting moment from A Place In The Sun that will never see light of day

Jasmine Harman has been a main presenter of A Place In The Sun for more than two decades and now lives in Spain with her husband and their children

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4 h. ago Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravelledThe tunnel in which athletes wait before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she has stood in enough of them to know. “Different people handle it differently,” she says. “Some people are really relaxed and friendly; other people just look right through you. It’s scary. I remember my coach saying to me, ‘When you go to the Olympics, you’ll be standing next to the meanest, toughest, hardest people that you’ll ever face.’ Everybody wants to win.”As it turned out, the wait to walk into London’s Olympic stadium for the final of her event in August 2012 was even more stressful than she’d been warned. With British excitement ...

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4 h. ago Sunday best: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for braised chicken with chickpeas and rosewater dried apricots

An aromatic Persian stew, followed by stewed dried apricots with pistachio cookiesSpring is here in all its glory, as the birds testify with their ebullient chitter-chat. But the weather is wilful and the air can turn chilly in a flash, and it’s this in-between time when soothing braises made with lighter ingredients are just what’s needed. I recently found a recipe for an Iranian chicken stew recipe that paired carrots and yoghurt, and its sunniness really appealed to me; I added cardamom for its evocative scent and chickpeas for body, and it was demolished by the troops. Pudding had to be simple, and both the biscuits and poached apricots can be made a few days ahead, so it is also blissfully easy. A lovely spring lunch for a lazy, sun-soaked day. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Wrexham v Charlton LIVE: Ryan Reynolds jets in for historic day as all eyes on Wycombe result

Follow live updates as Wrexham take on Charlton at the Racecourse with promotion to the Championship on the line

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