Wade previously scored 82 tries in seven seasons with Wasps before joining the Buffalo Bills as part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway in 2019. He scored a 65-yard touchdown on his debut for the Bills during pre-season, but never made a regular-season appearance. He returned to rugby union in 2022 with a move to...
Essex have signed Sri Lankan seamer Kasun Rajitha for the next five County Championship matches. Rajitha, 31, has played for his country in all three formats, including 18 Test matches, taking a total of 55 wickets at an average of 29.58. He previously played under Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood, who had a two-year...
James Dawson BBC North West, Social Media Lead BBC Social media user zoë bread operates under a loaf-based alias A masked campaigner who hides her face behind a slice of bread in viral TikTok videos about parking fines has forced Manchester City Council to review its signage policies. The T-shirt designer and filmmaker, who goes...
Australia international Ellyse Perry has signed as an overseas player for Hampshire in the inaugural Women’s T20 Blast. The 34-year-old all-rounder has won two World Cups, six ICC Women’s World Twenty20 championships and a Commonwealth Games gold medal with Australia. Perry is a two-time winner of the Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, awarded to the best...
Lancashire have signed Hampshire and England fast bowler John Turner on a 14-day loan deal. The 24-year-old will go straight into the squad for the County Championship match at Northamptonshire on Friday. He made his England One-Day international debut in the tour of West Indies in November. Turner will provide cover with veteran James Anderson...
Ipswich striker Liam Delap will be available for £30m this summer because of a relegation release clause, which will be triggered when his club inevitably returns to the Championship. The 22-year-old is likely to move on, with interest from several Premier League sides after netting 12 goals in 33 games in all competitions in his...
Exeter Chiefs have signed scrum-half Charlie Chapman from Gloucester for next season. The 26-year-old has been with the Cherry and Whites since the age of 14 and has made more than 90 appearances for the club since his senior debut in 2018. He will have competition from scrum-half, and former Gloucester team-mate, Stephen Varney, who...
Lancashire have signed Australia spinner Alana King on a multi-format contract. The 29-year-old will feature for Lancashire Thunder in the Women’s T20 Blast as well as Lancashire’s matches in the One-Day Cup. A 50-over World Cup winner in 2022, King has also won the Ashes on three occasions as well as gold at the 2022...
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to only sign a trade deal with the US that is in the UK’s “national interest,” as he warned about the impact of President Trump’s tariffs. The prime minister said the import taxes announced by the US president last week – which have prompted economic turbulence across the world –...
Liverpool’s former director of research Ian Graham reveals how Jurgen Klopp had to be persuaded to sign Egypt forward Mohamed Salah in 2017. Read full article at source...
Cornish Pirates have signed Exeter scrum-half Will Becconsall on loan. The 22-year-old from Truro has made seven appearances in all competitions for the Premiership club this season, and started their league loss to Harlequins in October. His best season came in 2022-23 when he made seven starts, including being first-choice scrum-half in Exeter’s European Champions...
Australian hooker Julian Heaven will join Premiership side Exeter in the summer. The 24-year-old arrives from Super Rugby’s New South Wales Waratahs having come up through the academy at French side Lyon. Heaven is the second Australian player to seal a summer move to Sandy Park after back-row Tom Hooper agreed to join for next...
With Manchester United trailing 1-0 to Nottingham Forest and needing a goal to avoid a 13th defeat of the season, manager Ruben Amorim turned to the bench. He had already withdrawn Joshua Zirkzee – scorer of three league goals since completing a £36.5m move to Old Trafford last summer – in favour of Rasmus Hojlund,...
Brighton have agreed a deal worth £10m to sign Sunderland winger Tom Watson this summer. The 18-year-old has scored two goals in 17 appearances for the Black Cats since making his senior debut in April 2023. Watson has agreed a four-year deal with the Premier League side, starting from when the summer transfer window opens...
Hull FC have signed Newcastle Knights half-back Will Pryce on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 22-year-old – the son of Leon Pryce, who was part of the Black and Whites team that won the first of two back-to-back Challenge Cups in 2016 – was allowed to leave by the National Rugby League side on compassionate grounds....