Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West BBC The former Living Coasts attraction has been empty for five years The site of a former zoo which has been empty for five years is set to be transformed. A deal has been agreed with ARC Marine, a marine habitat restoration company, to take over the Living Coasts...
US President Donald Trump says he may cut tariffs on China to help seal a deal for short video app TikTok to be sold by its owner ByteDance. Trump also said he is willing to extend a 5 April deadline for a non-Chinese buyer of the platform to be found. In January, he delayed the...
Head coach Farrell said that there are as many as six players in contention for the Lions captaincy, with the skipper not learning of his appointment until shortly before the squad’s announcement on 8 May. “There are maybe four, five, six on the list,” he said. “When you narrow it down – this is the...
Exeter Chiefs back Liv McGoverne has agreed a deal to stay at Sandy Park for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 27-year-old New Zealander – who can play at fly-half or centre – re-joined the club last summer. McGoverne had spent the 2022-23 season at Exeter, playing 26 games, scoring five tries and kicking...
Wales flanker Tommy Reffell has signed a new deal with Leicester Tigers to keep him at the club next season. The 25-year-old made his 100th start in Friday’s 33-0 East Midlands derby win at Northampton. He played for Wales at the 2023 World Cup and has won 27 caps in total, four of them during...
Glamorgan have signed England spinner Shoaib Bashir on a short-term loan from Somerset. Bashir, 21, is joining for three County Championship games as cover for Mason Crane, who will miss the opening month of the season because of a shoulder injury. Surrey-born off-spinner Bashir impressed after being a shock choice for England’s tour to India...
Undocumented immigrants, who contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes each year and help fund benefits like Social Security and Medicare while remaining ineligible to receive them, are expected to soon lose the privacy afforded to them by a long-standing Internal Revenue Service policy as the IRS nears a deal with the Trump administration to help...
Sale Sharks have agreed a two-year deal to sign Exeter Chiefs lock Jacques Vermeulen from next season. Vermeulen, 30, who can also play in the back row, moves to Sale after six years at Sandy Park, making over 100 appearances and winning the Premiership and European Challenge Cup double in 2020. The 6 ft 6,...
Northamptonshire have signed Australian pace bowler Harry Conway on a short-term contract for four County Championship games. The 32-year-old has taken 119 first-class wickets at an average of 28.86, eight of them in three games for South Australia in this winter’s Sheffield Shield. He will be available for the Division Two fixtures against Leicestershire, Lancashire,...
Assistant Louis Storey, who had been made interim head coach in the hours following Elliott’s departure, and fellow coaches Anthony Sweeney and Steve Hafner have all left the club. Lindsey has appointed Neil Smith, who leaves his role in charge of Isthmian League side Cray Wanderers, as his assistant manager, with his first game back...
Ospreys have signed Gloucester hooker George McGuigan on a short-term deal as cover after losing Lewis Lloyd to injury. McGuigan, 31, has a reputation as a strong ball carrier with more than 50 tries in top competitions. He joined Gloucester from Newcastle in 2022, but injuries have disrupted his progress in the last 12 months....
Former Sussex head coach Mark Robinson has rejoined the club’s coaching staff on a short-term deal. The 58-year-old led Sussex to six trophies in 10 years as head coach before leaving the club to become head coach of England Women in 2015 and winning the World Cup in 2017. Robinson then joined Warwickshire as head...
Trump pledged during his 2024 campaign that he could end the war within 24 hours of taking office. Hours after President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to avoid attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine, Russia conducted an attack on said infrastructure. The attack was reciprocated by a Ukrainian attack on...
Worcestershire all-rounder Matthew Waite has signed a new three-year deal with the County Championship Division One club. The 29-year-old Yorkshireman has followed the lead of two other key first team players Gareth Roderick and Adam Hose by also committing to the Pears until the end of the 2027 season, with an option for an additional...
Full-back Huw Anderson has signed a new long-term deal with Dragons. The 20-year-old, who also plays on the wing, made his debut for the region in 2023 and has played in eight games this season scoring two tries. He scored a stunning solo try against Newcastle on his first start for the region in the...
