56 m. ago England set South Africa target of 415 to win third men’s one

Updates from the match in Southampton (11am BST)You can email Tanya | Report: South Africa seal seriesAn interesting chat between Nick Knight, Shaun Pollock and Mike Atherton. Athers says that England are trying to bring the ODI and Test teams together whilst treating the T20 side as a different entity. That’s sensible on paper, he says, but brings a “real challenge because of the amount and volume of Test cricket England play. They are going to have to be quite strong about where their players play franchise cricket.”South Africa: Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Temba Bavuma (capt),Matthew Breetzke, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Wiann Mulder, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Codi Yusuf, Nandre Burger. Continue reading...

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58 m. ago London underground workers set to start week of strike action

London underground workers set to start week of strike action  Reuters

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70 m. ago Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rugSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne hundred and twenty miles from Westminster, it felt like I had arrived at the perfect place to understand the meaning of Angela Rayner’s exit from the government: Reform UK’s brief conference, a giddy and surreal gathering of about 10,000 people in a hangar-like box on the edgelands of Birmingham.News of her resignation broke a couple of hours into the event’s first day, and the symbolism was glaring. Among midday pints, onstage pyrotechnics and a huge stand advertising the wonders of investing in gold, a party led by those bumptious public schoolboys Nigel Farage and Richard Tice was suddenly rejoicing in the departure of British politics’ most prominent working-class woman. The news, moreover, only boost...

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71 m. ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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73 m. ago Brits moan they 'didn't get emergency alert on time' as some missed it completely

The government carried out an Emergency Alerts drill at 3pm today, but some people have claimed the blaring notification came later than they had expected it to

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81 m. ago BREAKING: Emergency alert sounds across most of UK mobile phones

Alarming, siren-like tones sounded from millions of phones today in a test of the government's national alert service - which is designed to save lives in the event of an emergency

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81 m. ago Victoria Beckham's unique way of reaching out to estranged Brooklyn one last time

Victoria Beckham has ensured that scenes in her Netflix documentary involving Brooklyn will stay despite their feued which has spanned four months

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86 m. ago Andre Onana's stance on Man Utd exit emerges amid talks over Trabzonspor loan

Andre Onana’s future remains up in the air at Manchester United but the former Inter Milan man is rapidly running out of time to secure a move away from Old Trafford this summer

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99 m. ago Katie Price seen for first time since cancer scare looking frail after medical tests

Katie Price has been seen for the first time since undergoing medical tests amid fears her cancer may have returned, with the mum-of-five showing off her slender frame

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1 hour ago Largest Russian air attack of war sets fire to Ukrainian cabinet building

Russia’s first strike on a key government building kills three, including a baby and an infantRussia has launched its largest ever air attack on Ukraine, hitting a key government building in Kyiv for the first time and leaving at least three people dead, including a baby and an infant, Ukrainian officials said.The bombardment of the capital with a large number of drones and missiles injured at least 18 people and set scores of buildings on fire. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Toronto film festival: the actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be AmericanAt the start of the century, a struggling Scottish rap duo decided to overhaul their image in extreme fashion: they began posing as two Americans from California, and managed to secure themselves a record deal with a label in London. Eventually the hoax was revealed, and one of them released a memoir about the charade. That wild story has now been adapted into a film, California Schemin’, which marks the alternately confident and unsteady directorial debut of actor James McAvoy.McAvoy is a son of Scotland himself, and perhaps feels some kinship with rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who found the cultural tastemakers of the south to be indifferent or even hostile to Scottish artists. Though McAvoy has fared just fine as an actor, Bain and Boyd – who would come to be known as Silibil N’ Brains – had a much tougher go...

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1 hour ago Lando Norris brands Max Verstappen an 'idiot' in dramatic Italian Grand Prix start

Lando Norris was left fuming with Max Verstappen at the first corner of the Italian Grand Prix as the McLaren ace had to take the grass before the Dutchman cut the corner

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1 hour ago Lando Norris labels Max Verstappen an ‘idiot’ over controversial move at Italian Grand Prix

The McLaren driver was left angry at the world champion’s move during a lively start at Monza, with the Briton aiming to trim teammate Oscar Piastri’s world championship lead

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2 h. ago Natasha Hunt: England will benefit from feeling pressure against Australia

The hosts overcame a difficult start to win convincingly in their World Cup pool decider.

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2 h. ago Lando Norris fumes at 'idiot' Max Verstappen after dramatic start to Italian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen started the Italian Grand Prix on pole but was only able to fend off Lando Norris at the first corner by cutting the chicane, prompting an angry message from the McLaren driver

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2 h. ago Debutantes don white gowns and dazzling tiaras as they gather for the annual Queen Charlotte's Ball

Debutantes put on an elegant display as they attended the annual Queen Charlotte's Ball at One Whitehall Place in London on Saturday.

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2 h. ago Harry Kane could make Premier League return as new Bayern Munich exit theory emerges

Harry Kane has been in prolific goal scoring form with Bayern Munich, but his time in Germany might not be as long as first thought, with the German giants already considering successors

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2 h. ago ‘It’s my second home!’ Gen Z and the sudden, surprising boom of luxury gyms

Expensive fitness facilities might seem a tough sell in a cost of living crisis. But for young people in crowded or dilapidated house shares, the high price for a haven can be worth payingThe best part of Owen Willis’s day is his morning shower. Notes of lavender and eucalyptus waft through his private, stone-tiled shower room as he uses a £32 bottle of Cowshed bodywash. He dries off with a fluffy white towel before slathering on Cowshed body lotion (£24).This isn’t Willis’s home, however. It’s his gym. He belongs to Third Space in London, which calls itself a “luxury health club”. Memberships start at £230 a month for an individual site and go as high as £305 for access to all of its branches, including the Mayfair club, where gym-goers can expect “UV-treated fresh air” and “a Himalayan sea-salt walled sauna and steam room”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Claudia Lawrence 'creepy intruder' targets home sparking sinister message fears

Missing chef Claudia Lawrence's 'frozen in time' home has been raided for a THIRD time according to her 'mortified' mum who found her knickers and tapes had been moved

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2 h. ago Stop rats and rodents infiltrating your bins by making one storage tweak

As the weather gets cooler, rats and mice will start to look for shelter during the colder months, but there's a simple way you can keep them out of your house and bins

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