Coming from a country with little tennis pedigree, Eala is already accustomed to being a trailblazer for the Philippines – even though she is still a teenager. In 2021, she became the first Filipino to win a WTA Tour match and first to win a junior Grand Slam crown with the 2022 US Open title....
Universities could face multi-million-pound fines for breaches of freedom of speech rules, the Office for Students (OfS) said. The University of Sussex was fined £585,000 after the OfS said its equality policy – which includes rules to “positively represent trans people” – could prevent staff and students voicing opposing views. Sussex was investigated after Prof...
The story of this Spring Statement is that welfare has been cut back to make up for a notable rise in the cost of servicing the national debt. There is also a trim to the money being given to government departments. There is relatively little else actually happening in policy terms. There were no tax...
NatWest and Nigel Farage have settled the dispute over the closure of one of his bank accounts. The agreed settlement comes almost two years after the Reform UK leader had his account with Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy which is owned by NatWest Group, closed. The closure led to a public row...
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Hertfordshire Family handout Maia Walsh had at least four TikTok accounts, a pre-inquest review heard TikTok will be the focus of an inquest into the death of a girl who used the app before her death, a coroner said. Maia Walsh, 13, posted “I don’t think I’ll live past 14” on...
The Rugby Football Union would slide into months of “rancour and disruption” should a rebel motion to oust chief executive Bill Sweeney pass on Thursday, interim chair Bill Beaumont has warned. A collective of clubs, led by those in the second-tier Championship, have forced a referendum on Sweeney’s leadership. They claim the organisation has lost...
The Chancellor has announced welfare and spending cuts to try to restore her £9.9bn “headroom”, so she can meet her rules on the economy. BBC Verify’s Ben Chu looks at how she’s made her sums add up. Produced by Jemimah Herd. Motion graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Read article in full at source...
LIV players are not currently eligible for TGL because it is backed by the PGA Tour. That could change if a deal is done between the two rival tours and LIV’s Brooks Koepka attended the match between Jupiter and The Bay on 25 February. The start of the first of the two deciding matches on...
Lily Jamali Reporting fromSan Francisco EPA Signage outside of the offices of the biotechnology company 23andMe in South San Francisco. Photo by GEORGE NIKITIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The computer systems of 23andMe have been struggling to cope with the sheer volume of customers racing to delete their data, after the DNA-testing company announced that it was filing for...
Manchester City and Chelsea could earn up to £97m in prize money from this year’s Club World Cup. The overall prize fund, shared between all 32 teams based on different factors, will be £775m, with £407m divided between all participating clubs and £368m awarded on a performance-related basis. Money awarded for participation is weighted by...
Clara Bullock BBC News, Bristol PA Media Prince William filmed with Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland during a visit to Somerset The Prince of Wales will appear in an upcoming episode of Clarkson’s Farm. Prince William was joined by stars of the show Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland as he met young farmers in Somerset...
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup against current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after a ruling from the country’s top court. The Supreme Court’s five-member panel voted unanimously in favour of the trial going ahead. Bolsonaro, 70, denies trying to block Lula’s inauguration and says...
Brian Wheeler Political reporter Reuters Rachel Reeves has squeezed the welfare budget further and boosted defence spending in a Spring Statement aimed at kick-starting the faltering economy. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the government’s financial watchdog – halved its growth forecast for this year to 1%. The chancellor blamed global instability, arguing that...
Joshua Askew BBC News, South East TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock “Quite a lot of anomalies” had been detected in the area, said the council Every resident affected by a sinkhole in Surrey is set to return home, a local authority has said. Lloyd Allen, Surrey County Council’s infrastructure team manager, said those impacted by the collapse in...
PA Media It is alleged Kerri Pegg approved the release of inmate Anthony Saunderson even though she did not have the authority to do so A prison governor began a relationship with a drug dealer who gave her a £12,000 Mercedes car after she approved his early release on licence from jail, a court heard....