4 h. ago Noah Caluori named in England squad for Quilter Nations Series

Caluori made headlines earlier in October after scoring five tries for Saracens in their 65-14 win over Sale.

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19 h. ago Dodgers hit back as Yamamoto hurls first World Series complete game since 2015

LA beat Toronto 5-1 in Game 2 of Fall ClassicFirst World Series complete game since 2015Dodgers even matchup 1-1 heading back to LAYoshinobu Yamamoto threw a four-hitter for his second consecutive complete game, the first in the World Series since 2015, and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 on Saturday night to tie their best-of-seven matchup at one game apiece.Coming off a three-hitter against Milwaukee in the National League Championship Series – the first postseason complete game in eight years – Yamamoto retired his final 20 batters. The previous pitcher to go the distance in the Fall Classic was Kansas City’s Johnny Cueto against the New York Mets in Game 2 a decade ago. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago ALEX BRUMMER: The lies of Labour's manifesto visible for all to see

The rise in employers' National Insurance contributions has caused serious grief for working people. The promise not to raise income tax also was a fiction

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65 h. ago Traffic hell as major motorway and busy road both closed as delays cause chaos

A series of National Highways diversions are in place thanks to two major road closures causing chaos, although one closure is far more fixable than the other . . .

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5 d. ago Wales squad announcement LIVE as Steve Tandy makes first selection calls

New Wales head coach Steve Tandy is naming his first squad ahead of the Autumn Nations Series with some big calls set to be made

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9 d. ago Because Of You: Claudia Winkleman shines a light on Good Causes funded by The National Lottery

A series of powerful and emotive films cover the difference National Lottery funding is making to grassroots projects supporting the arts, communities, heritage, film and sport

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1 week ago Scotland forward in race to be fit for Autumn Nations Series

Ankle injury rules him out of Edinburgh’s game with Benetton

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1 week ago China poses ‘series of threats to national security’, UK Government says

Security minister Dan Jarvis said the Government made every effort to support the prosecution of alleged spies.

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2 w. ago Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forcesThe White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance confirmed on Sunday.Vance was asked on NBC News’s Meet the Press whether Donald Trump was seriously considering invoking the emergency power to deploy national guard forces and even the US military in domestic settings. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

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2 w. ago Alan Partridge is back at rock bottom – and it’s the funniest he’s been in years

After stadium tour success, the delusional broadcaster is back where he belongs: self-funding a series about the nation’s mental health. As comedy goes, it couldn’t be more pleasurableLike anyone who has grown up in the shadow of Alan Partridge’s three-decade dominion over British comedy, I want only the very best for Norwich’s most relentless broadcaster. By which I mean the absolute worst. For me, Partridge is at his finest when he’s scrabbling around the media’s outer fringes, rebranding past humiliations as glories and furiously name-dropping 1980s television personalities to the nonplussed acquaintances he genuinely believes to be his closest friends.Sadly, Alan has been riding (relatively) high in recent years. In 2022, Steve Coogan’s creation – now co-written by Rob and Neil Gibbons – embarked on a UK arena tour as a motivational speaker, imparting dubious advice to tens of thousands of adoring fans. Before that, he landed the job of a lifetime: a presenting gig on the BBC’s ...

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3 w. ago Actress Celia Imrie, 73, mistaken for PORN star by blushing fan

British star and national treasure Celia Imrie, who stars in the new series of Celebrity Traitors, opens up about the embarrassing time she was mistaken for a different kind of actress

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3 w. ago How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) review – nothing else on TV has this many laugh

The fictional broadcaster remains the funniest comic creation in Britain, as he returns with this hilariously sloppy look at mental health. Is anything as joyous as watching his blunders? Surely notAlan Partridge is in crisis! But then, who isn’t these days? Last time he was on television, Alan was melting down live on air while hosting the light magazine show This Time, ending the series quite literally locked out of the BBC. At the start of his new, self-produced project, the light documentary How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), the broadcaster reveals he’s since hit another low by fainting into the lap of a female interviewee during a corporate event for Norfolk agribusiness stalwarts Bannroyd Animal Feed. Tough times, but personalities of Partridge’s calibre know how to bounce back: tie your troubles to a national trend and see if you can get a series out of it.How Are You?, then, sees Steve Coogan’s immortal alter ego in roving factual mode, looking into an epidemic of anxiety,...

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3 w. ago How Manchester synagogue attack unfolded as two killed in ‘horrific’ incident

Two people have been killed in a ‘serious incident’ which police said had been “declared Plato” – the national code-word used by emergency services when responding to a ‘marauding terror attack’

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3 w. ago Yamamoto shines as LA Dodgers oust Reds to book NLDS date with Phillies

Yamamoto fans nine as LA oust CincinnatiBetts ties club record with three doublesDodgers advance to face Phillies in NLDSYoshinobu Yamamoto struck out a postseason-high nine while pitching into the seventh inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers broke it open with a four-run sixth to beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-4 on Wednesday night and advance to the National League Division Series.The defending World Series champion Dodgers advanced to their 20th NLDS appearance – 13th in a row – in franchise history and will face the Phillies starting Saturday in Philadelphia. The teams last met in the postseason in 2009, when the Phillies beat the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series for the second straight year. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Police launch manhunt after woman, 32, raped at Loch Lomond National Park

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park. Police Scotland have launched a manhunt to find the suspect

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3 w. ago Woman raped at Loch Lomond beauty spot as police launch manhunt

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park with officers now "doing everything we can to trace the man"

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3 w. ago Woman, 32, in horror Loch Lomond rape as police launch manhunt

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park with officers now "doing everything we can to trace the man"

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