Key Blues star looks ready to return in showpiece clash with Paris Saint-Germain at MetLife Stadium Sport
Head coach knows victory in Suva can make life easier for Scots in 2027 Events
Gregor Townsend’s side want a top-six spot to avoid a repeat of their tough 2023 World Cup group. Politics
Scotland full-back earmarked for weekend matchUntested pairing of Gibson-Park and Russell face RedsTo say the last couple of days have been a blur for Blair Kinghorn is putting it mildly. As recently as the early hours of Sunday he was celebrating Toulouse’s Top 14 title success in Paris and doing interviews clad only in a pair of budgie smugglers. Now here he is wearing a British & Irish Lions tracksuit, squinting into the Australian sunshine and trying his hardest to focus on the next onrushing target.The Scotland full-back, the last originally-chosen squad member to arrive, will not be involved in the Lions’ midweek game against the Reds but is earmarked to feature against the Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday. All being well a potential slot in the Test XV could follow but even for a class act like Kinghorn it is going to take a lot of frantic paddling below the surface to get up to speed. Continue reading... Politics
A campaign for free bus passes for all people over the age of 60 in England has hit a key milestone today (March 31) - with MPs set for a parliamentary clash over the plan Politics
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The Frenchman was absent from Real’s Club World Cup opener Events
Campaigners say they have spoken to Scottish government about lack of action on prisons and schools guidance amid focus on toiletsFor Women Scotland, the group responsible for April’s landmark supreme court ruling on biological sex, is considering further legal action against the Scottish government as they warned the key motivation for bringing the case was being lost amid debates about policy on toilets.At a fringe event at the Scottish Conservative conference in Edinburgh, the gender critical campaign group’s co-director Susan Smith said there had been “extraordinary pushback” since five judges ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates. Continue reading... Events
