Cameron Norrie says he used a crowd tactic deployed by Andy Murray to get himself fired up during his third-round Wimbledon victory over Italian Matteo Bellucci. Playing on Court One – which he describes as his favourite at the tournament – the 29-year-old said he picked out members of the crowd to feed off their...
Manchester City defender Kyle Walker is close to joining Burnley after passing a medical at the Premier League newcomers. The 35-year-old England right-back will sign a two-year contract with the Clarets, having spent the second half of the 2024-25 season on loan at Serie A side AC Milan. The move will end Walker’s eight-year stay...
James Waterhouse BBC News Reporting fromGondamar, Portugal PA Media Portugese national team player Andre Silva was among footballers and politicians to attend the public wake in Gondomar Crowds mourned Diogo Jota in his hometown to pay their respects to the Liverpool forward and his brother Andre Silva, who both died in a car crash on...
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz kept himself on course for a third Wimbledon title in a row by overcoming Jan-Lennard Struff in an enthralling encounter to reach the fourth round. The world number two has yet to really hit his stride at the tournament but came through some big pressure situations and produced moments of quality...
One in 10 cars sold in the UK in June were made in China, according to the latest industry figures. New Chinese brands such as BYD, Jaecoo and Omoda are growing rapidly in the UK. There has been a particular surge over the past few months, at a time when most other G7 countries have...
Sam Francis Political reporter Iain Watson Political correspondent Getty Images Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn shared platforms when they were both Labour MPs High profile left winger Zarah Sultana has quit Labour and vowed to launch a new political party with Jeremy Corbyn. That, however, seems to have come as news to him. In a...
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The first two days of this match were absorbing. On Friday it burst into life to produce one of the most remarkable days in recent memory. The first session was scarcely believable. England scored 172 runs and excitement built that Smith could reach three figures in less than 76 balls to make the fastest century...
Getty Images Palestine Action will be banned from midnight after a judge refused its request to temporarily block the government from proscribing it as a terror group. On Friday, a High Court judge refused the group more time to pursue legal action against the government’s decision. The proposed ban, which amends the Terrorism Act 2000,...
Rashford said last month he would like to play alongside forward Lamine Yamal at Barcelona. United’s pre-season training starts on Monday, and sources close to Rashford have said he has no problem with returning. The club’s first pre-season friendly is against Leeds on 19 July in Stockholm before they go to the US for the...
Before England’s penultimate Women’s Nations League group game, all of the attention was on Mary Earps’ retirement. After the match, a different name dominated the headlines: Aggie Beever-Jones. The forward seized her opportunity in the absence of injured duo Alessia Russo and Ella Toone, scoring a 33-minute hat-trick against Portugal. Tipping her to make an...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images British soldiers conducting counter-Taliban operations 2007 in Southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Afghan nationals whose personal information was mistakenly exposed by the Ministry of Defence in 2021 will be offered up to £4,000 each in compensation, the government has said. The data breaches affected 277 people, some of whom had...
Orla Guerin Senior international correspondent in Sumy, Ukraine MOOSE CAMPBELL/BBC Soldiers on the Sumy front are trying to intercept about 100 drones from Russia a night. As the evening light ebbed away a handful of Ukrainian troops emerged from the treeline to face an unequal fight. Their mission – to shoot down 21st Century killer...
The sentence given to a 15-year-old boy who racially abused and killed an 80-year-old man in Leicestershire will be reviewed. Bhim Kohli died in hospital a day after being attacked while walking his dog Rocky at Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, in September. The boy was sentenced to seven years in custody, while a...
A man has been sentenced after he “repeatedly and persistently” encouraged a vulnerable woman he met online to kill herself. Tyler Webb, 23, connected with his victim on social media before asking the woman, who cannot be named, to harm herself for his own “sexual gratification”. Police said the victim’s bravery was “profound” in reporting...