Somerset’s record opening stand against Warwickshire, in peril while the batters chugged comfortably along, remains the 223 by Jimmy Cook and Peter Roebuck at Taunton in 1990. Warwickshire had a glimmer of opportunity with two new batters at the crease, but Lammonby and James Rew played responsibly to reassert their side’s control with a stand...
Manchester’s Tom Aspinall has been upgraded to undisputed heavyweight champion as the UFC announced Jon Jones had officially retired. The decision, delivered by Dana White after a UFC Fight Night in Azerbaijan, brings to an end seven months of uncertainty in the heavyweight division. Aspinall is just the third Briton to become a UFC champion...
The role at Argyle is 35-year-old Cleverley’s second as a head coach, having been in charge at Watford last season. Cleverley says that experience at the Hornets – who have had 10 permanent managers since sacking Nigel Pearson in 2020 – will stand him in good stead for his future career in management. “It’s obviously...
Newly appointed Plymouth Argyle head coach Tom Cleverley has brought in three new members of his backroom team. The trio all worked with Cleverley when he was Watford manager before he left the club last month. Damon Lathrope will take on the role of assistant head coach – the former Torquay United player had a...
Mark: Great appointment after being relegated. Shows ambition to go straight back up with the new early signings. Need a top striker, with [Ryan] Hardie we will be flying. Leonardo: Rooney 2.0? Wish we had gone for an older, wiser, experienced manager to steady the good ship Argyle after recent seasons of turmoil and upheaval,...
Plymouth Argyle have appointed former Watford boss Tom Cleverley as their new head coach. The 35-year-old has signed a three-year contract and succeeds Miron Muslic, who left the club last month to take over at German side Schalke. Cleverley joins an Argyle side returning to League One this season following relegation after two years in...
There have also been discussions over the sale of future TV rights. The current United Kingdom TV deal, principally held by Sky, expires in 2028. When it is renegotiated, rights for The Hundred will again be sold as a complete package, rather than separated from international and other domestic cricket. International TV rights, seen as...
Tom Felton is to reprise his role as the villainous Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter stage show on Broadway. It marks the first time that a star of the Harry Potter movies has joined the spin-off stage production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The hit play – which serves as an epilogue to...
A “thrilled” Wagner was speaking after his hopes for a new 62,000-seat stadium to replace St Andrews took a significant step forward, with government funding for a new tramline to a planned ‘Sports Quarter’ in the east of the city. The club’s owners, US investment firm Knighthead Capital – which Wagner founded – wants to...
Tom McKibbin expects that competing in the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush will be something he will remember for the rest of his life. The 22-year-old from Northern Ireland was in the field last year at Royal Troon, as well as for the US Open in 2024 and US PGA last month, but feels playing...
Hartley, 26, could make his England return this week in the one-day international series against West Indies, which starts on Thursday at Edgbaston. He has had a decent start to the season with Lancashire but has still been putting in the hours amid the perennials. “It is a 5am or 5:30am wake-up, walk the dogs,...
Carys Nally & Clara Bullock BBC News, Gloucestershire The highlights from the 2025 Gloucestershire cheese rolling races German Tom Kopke was victorious at the Gloucestershire cheese-rolling event for the second year in a row, saying he “risked his life” to win. Mr Kopke, 23, who runs his own YouTube channel, was one of dozens of...
Paul Glynn & Ian Youngs Culture reporter Fair Winter LLC Paul Mescal plays a budding singer who forms a friendship with Josh O’Connor’s music student in The History of Sound Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Cruise are among the Hollywood stars who are expected to hit the red carpet at this year’s Cannes Film...
The founder of the Kwik Fit garage chain, Sir Tom Farmer, has died at the age of 84. The Edinburgh-born businessman died peacefully at his home in the city on Friday, his family said. He built the company into the world’s biggest independent tyre and automotive chain, selling it to Ford for £1bn in 1999....
It wasn’t always this way. For the first seven years under Gino Pozzo’s ownership, Watford enjoyed a period of sustained success unlike anything they had experienced since the 1980s. Watford were promoted to the Premier League three years into his tenure, then spent four seasons in the top flight where relegation was barely a concern....