The appointments come almost a fortnight after Muslic said he wanted answers on who would take on the roles – which have been vacant for much of 2025. “Following Neil Dewsnip’s departure we reviewed the structure of our football leadership department and spoke openly about our desire to appoint a sporting director,” chief executive Andrew...
PA Media A rose has been named after Catherine, Princess of Wales to highlight the healing power of nature. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it called the flower ‘Catherine’s Rose’ to raise awareness of the role that spending time outdoors plays in supporting people’s mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. The floribunda rose has coral-pink...
Watch as British & Irish Lions head coach Andy Farrell names Saracens forward Maro Itoje as captain for the 2025 tour of Australia. Read full article at source...
Maro Itoje is set to be confirmed on Thursday as the British and Irish Lions captain for the tour of Australia. The 30-year-old will become the first Englishman since Martin Johnson in 2001 to be named Lions captain, and will lead a party of around 40 players. Itoje, who will tour with the Lions for...
Helen Astle & Isaac Ashe BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Father-of-three Gurvinder Singh Johal was fatally stabbed inside a Derby city centre bank A customer killed inside a city centre bank has been named locally as restaurant owner Gurvinder Singh Johal. Mr Johal had been at Lloyds in St Peter’s Street, Derby, with the bank...
Zimbabwe have recalled all-rounder Sikandar Raza for their one-off Test with England. The 39-year-old missed his country’s last two-Test series, in which they drew 1-1 with Bangladesh and lost a single match to Ireland, because of franchise cricket commitments. He now returns for Zimbabwe’s first red-ball match in England since 2003, with the four-day game...
In a squad containing no surprises, captain Ben Stokes is fit to lead after undergoing hamstring surgery at Christmas. The match at Trent Bridge will be the all-rounder’s first action since suffering the injury to his left leg in the final Test against New Zealand in December. There are likely to be limitations on how...
Director of football Richard Montague said: “We’ve been very impressed with Alan since he’s taken over as caretaker head coach for a second time. “It was important that we carried out a thorough and detailed process for appointing our new head coach. “We had to get this decision right, and we are very happy with...
A former BBC journalist and a director of the Women’s Sports Group, Kogan helped negotiate a rights deal for the Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship last year. He was the Premier League’s media rights advisor from 1998 to 2015. He also has close links to the Labour party, having written two books about them,...
Jose Maria Olazabal has been named as Europe’s third vice-captain for this year’s Ryder Cup in New York. Olazabal, who captained Team Europe to their last victory on American soil in 2012, returns to his role from 2023 when Europe beat the United States 16½-11½ to regain the Ryder Cup in Rome. The 59-year-old Spaniard...
The two British tourists who drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef have been named. Robin Reed, 46, and his son Owen, 17, who were from Caerphilly county in south Wales, were swept out to sea on 13 April while swimming at a beach...
The Vatican has named 167 people who died in the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka as “heroes of faith”. The country’s cardinal, Malcolm Ranjith, made the announcement at an event to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the suicide attacks which targeted Catholic churches and five star hotels during Easter Sunday mass, killing 269 people....
A British woman who was among four people killed in a cable car crash near Naples has been named by Italian officials as Margaret Elaine Winn. A second Briton killed in the accident has been identified by authorities but not yet named. The mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground after one of the...
A woman who died after being struck by a van on a golf course near Sutton Coldfield has been named, as police confirmed three arrests in the case. Suzanne Cherry, 62, from Aldridge, died in hospital on Tuesday night after the incident at Aston Wood Golf Club in Little Aston on Friday. The vehicle had...
Jim Reed BBC News Reporting fromSupreme Court, London Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Parents of the deceased children heard doctors involved in their care could be named Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell...