7 h. ago RFU joins eight unions in banning R360 defectors from Test selection

The statement is a hammer blow for Mike Tindall’s proposed breakaway league

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11 h. ago Scottish Rugby threatens to ban players who sign up for R360 rebel league in major move

Murrayfield joins leading unions to oppose rebel league

Sport

1 week ago England star determined to banish World Cup final demons as Red Roses set sights on history

The centre has established as one of the first names on John Mitchell’s teamsheet for this weekend’s final against Canada at a sold out Allianz Stadium.

Politics

1 week ago 'British' clothes firm which claimed it was 'founded in London' and featured cobbled streets and the Union flag on its website has adverts banned when it turns out to be based in China

The Advertising Standards Authority found that Marble Muse misled consumers into thinking it was a British-based brand with its use of images of models seemingly posing in British settings.

Events

2 w. ago Rugby's biggest ever bans from cheating scandal to double lifetime suspension

A France star has been handed a 12-game ban for biting but the suspension pales in comparison to the sport's biggest punishments

Politics

3 w. ago ‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change

‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’Being a West German band made playing the Soviet Union in the late 1980s particularly special. We’d grown up in a divided country and had tried many times to play in East Germany, but they would never let us in. When we did our first gig in what was then Leningrad, the atmosphere was a bit grey, not very colourful or rock’n’roll – but hearts started opening up over the course of the 10 gigs we did in the city. It ended up a bit like Beatlemania, with fans circling our cars after every show. Continue reading...

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