Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter-Bell was last with 200m to go but overhauled all of her competitors, including world champion Mary Moraa, with a sensational sprint finish. Britain’s world indoor champion Amber Anning was third in the women’s 400m in a season’s best of 50.17 seconds, while Dina Asher-Smith ran 10.93 seconds to finish second...
Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith was third in the women’s 100m, behind Olympic champion Julien Alfred and veteran Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith. Asher-Smith failed to make the 100m final at last year’s Olympics but is hopeful of better at this year’s World Championships in Tokyo in September. She said after running a season’s best 11.08 seconds: “I feel...
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson has pulled out of Sunday’s Stockholm Diamond League event after suffering a setback in her recovery from a hamstring injury. The 23-year-old was ruled out of the Keely Klassic – a new athletics event she founded – in February after tearing her hamstring. She had been due to return on...
A Cartier turquoise and diamond tiara owned by the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons has been sold for £700,000. American-born Nancy Astor was elected in 1919 to represent Plymouth Sutton in Parliament and held the seat until she stood down in 1945. London Auctioneers Bonhams said it was the...
Jake Wallace BBC News, South West Bonhams The tiara could sell for more than £250,000 A Cartier turquoise and diamond tiara owned by the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons is expected to fetch more than £250,000 at auction. American-born Nancy Astor was elected in 1919 to represent Plymouth Sutton...
Until a new owner is found to replace current incumbent Semore Kurdi, worries will abound that Newcastle will go the same way as folded trio Worcester, Wasps and London Irish. Having been at Sixways in their dying days, Diamond insists the situation in the north east is not as dire as that, as they await...