4 h. ago Scotland’s Gregor Townsend questions England’s crucial penalty decision

‘I just don’t know how that’s a penalty,’ says head coachSteve Borthwick: ‘They found a way to win the game’Scotland’s coaches and players believe two key officiating decisions potentially denied them another historic Calcutta Cup victory. Gregor Townsend feels his team were unlucky to concede the crucial second-half penalty kicked by Fin Smith that ultimately proved decisive and doubts have also been raised over the solitary English try, scored by Tommy Freeman.Townsend was particularly unhappy about the crucial penalty given against Rory Darge and Tom Jordan for lifting Ben Curry out of a ruck. “I’m going to go through the game two or three times to see whether we could have got better decisions,” said Townsend, the head coach. “I did feel the decision that counted against us for the winning three points where we cleared someone out of the ruck I just don’t know how that’s a penalty. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea dealt transfer setback in fight for RB Leipzig star

RB Leipzig centre-back Castello Lukeba is hot property and the Frenchman has a £74.5million release clause that kicks into gear in July which is of particular interest to several Premier League clubs

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6 h. ago Man's life 'ruined' by parking ticket after he was 10 minutes late back to his car

Ashley Pavett was enjoying a coffee at a Costa last April when he overstayed the 90-minute limit and was slapped with a £60 parking fine - but it was worse than he thought

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6 h. ago Christian Horner hits back at Adrian Newey after parting shot at Red Bull

Red Bull saw some difficulties last season despite Max Verstappen earning yet another world championship title but Adrian Newey has suggested lack of experience cost the team in performance

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7 h. ago Kym Marsh stuns at glam dinner with daughter following split from 'toyboy'

Kym Marsh took her lookalike teen daughter out for a dressy dinner in London, just days after revealing her break up from actor boyfriend

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8 h. ago Germany’s best defence against the AfD is for mainstream parties to offer hope

Editorial: The spectre of the anti-immigration right that is haunting Europe can be banished and parties occupying the centre-ground know what they have to do

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8 h. ago Man who overstayed by 10 minutes in a Costa car park almost has his life ruined

Ashley Pavett had exceeded the 90-minute limit at a car park in Green Meadow near Pontyclun in South Wales. He paid the fine promptly, but a letter months later turned his life upside down.

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8 h. ago Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe says his side should have beat Partick Thistle, and blasts ref

McCabe reckons Thistle hero Stuart Bannigan should have been sent off

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9 h. ago Gas main blaze breaks out as Scots homes evacuated and busy area locked down

The incident took place just yards away from Firhill Stadium, where Partick Thistle took on Airdrieonians.

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9 h. ago House builder supports West Lothian School Bank with bumper donation

Miller Homes’ donation to The School Bank West Lothian will go towards providing schools with “camp clothing packs” to ensure that every child has a chance to fully participate in school camp trips.

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9 h. ago Brighton brush aside Southampton to keep European hopes on track

Joao Pedro, Georginio Rutter, Kaoru Mitoma and Jack Hinshelwood struck for the visitors.

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9 h. ago The week in audio: Facing the Music; Tara and George: Last Rights; Why Is Amy in the Bath? and more – review

The lives of Beethoven, Haydn and co enthral; Audrey Gillan updates her award-winning rough sleepers series. Plus, a choir of cicadas and bathtime fun with Amy Adams Facing the Music Radio 3/BBC SoundsTara and George: Last Rights Radio 4/BBC Sounds)Why Is Amy in the Bath? Grab Bag Collab & Because It’s True ProductionsBetween the Ears: A Symphony of Cicadas Radio 3/BBC Sounds“It’s almost midnight,” purrs Dominic West, all honey and velvet, straight after we hear the famously doomy, four-note opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The wild-eyed composer is in a cart, West tells us energetically, his latest piano sonata getting ruined by the rain, after throwing some coins at the driver and growling his preferred destination. West relishes every syllable of it: “Vi-ennnn-a!” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Partick Thistle 1, Airdrie 1: Ben Wilson the hero as he rescues a point

Rhys McCabe's side fought hard to take a point away from Firhill

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10 h. ago Why YOU should be preparing for death, with a file... Coroner's tips on everything to include in a 'death file'

Let's be honest - none of us like thinking about death. We joke about who will inherit the family Monopoly board, but when it comes to the serious stuff most of us put it off.

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10 h. ago Ludovico Einaudi: ‘The way you blend the elements you eat is similar to composing a piece of music’

The pianist and composer talks about his passion for chillies, teas and saucepans, and cooking for his dad’s remarkable literary dinner partiesI live in Torino [Turin], a town where I grew up, where I was born. There’s a famous dish from there called bagna cauda. It’s a meeting of the garlic from the area of Piedmont, the mountains, with the anchovies coming from the sea in Liguria. It’s a very simple dish, a bit like a broth, perfect in winter, and you eat it with raw vegetables of the season. But there’s so much garlic in it that, when you eat it, you need a couple of days away from other people.There is a connection between how you eat and how you make music: the way you blend the elements that you eat, the colours, it’s similar to composing a piece of music. If I take my solo piano repertoire, I would associate it with a very simple food, with few elements and few colours, not overelaborate. If I think of a piece of mine with more instruments, more orchestral, I would ...

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10 h. ago Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk anger, Arne Slot's 115 charges joke, referee apology

Liverpool and Manchester City will renew their rivalry on Sunday, with the Reds looking to repeat their victory at Anfield earlier this season - a game that was marred by controversy

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12 h. ago Star Wars actor says his career was ‘ruined’ after George Lucas changed a huge detail

‘If you’re going to ruin my career on that part, you could’ve at least given me an opportunity in the Marvel series,’ said ‘Star Wars’ actor

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12 h. ago The Swansea Blitz heroes who braved death and destruction to help save hundreds of animals

After German bombing raids left the area in ruins - people did everything they could to keep their pets alive

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12 h. ago The Instagram fitness craze that can have VERY harmful effects: Hot yoga can place 'extreme stress' on cardiovascular system 

Hot yoga, otherwise known as Bikram yoga, sees health-conscious participants across the globe exercising via poses akin to traditional yoga but in balmy temperatures.

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12 h. ago Joy Crookes review – an enthralling, intimate set from this rising London soul star

Islington Assembly Hall, LondonThe twentysomething singer-songwriter brings classic Motown rhythms with a touch of hip-hop to a resounding set of anti-anxiety anthemsJoy Crookes is only 26, but the south Londoner’s music already feels omnipresent. One song in particular, at least: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now seems to be absolutely everywhere. I hear it in cafes and bars, trendy boutiques and grimy off-licences and, when I forget to turn it off, the autoplay function on my streaming app of choice. The song only came out in 2021, as a single from Crookes’s acclaimed debut album, Skin, and even if it doesn’t yet feel canonical, it has at least thoroughly saturated certain pockets of the city.Which makes it all the more remarkable that, when Crookes plays it at Islington Assembly Hall this evening – an “intimate”, or intimate for her, show at only 890 people – one of the Brits Week for War Child charity shows, it doesn’t even garner the biggest singalong of the evening. That honour might go ...

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