Lana Lam and Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Watch: People compete in Auckland RUNIT championship league event “Defender ready?” calls the host. A thumbs up and moments later, two burly men – with no protective gear – run full speed at each other before they clash, the unmistakable sound of flesh and bone crunching. The...
Guy Henderson Local Democracy Reporting Service Google Plans have been submitted for the former police station in Heavitree Road, Exeter Plans have been submitted to knock down a former Devon police station to build more than 800 homes for university students and local people. The plans for Exeter’s former police station, on Heavitree Road, would...
Lancashire are banking on Sir James Anderson igniting their faltering red-ball season by making him captain for the County Championship game against Kent at Blackpool, starting on Sunday. England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker will lead the Red Rose in their next two matches in the absence of Marcus Harris, who is returning to Australia for...
Getty Images Israel continued to strike Iran’s capital Tehran on Sunday night Long queues at petrol stations and bakeries. Long lines of cars trying to escape the capital. And long, frightening nights. Residents of Tehran – still shocked by Israel’s sudden attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday morning – speak of fear...
Hundreds of firefighters lined Queen’s Avenue in Bicester ahead of Ms Logan’s funeral Thousands of people gathered on Saturday morning to remember a firefighter who died alongside a colleague and a member of the public in a major blaze. Jennie Logan, 30, died in the fire at the Bicester Motion site on 15 May alongside...
West Indies lost all three of their T20Is against England in recent days, but returning pace bowler Mark Adair knows they will be formidable opposition. Adair returns to the squad after missing the ODI series through injury but Craig Young, Curtis Campher and Gareth Delany have been ruled out. “They’re one of the best teams...
Whatever Stokes said or meant to say at Trent Bridge, he ultimately confirmed the battle for a place in the Test side is between Bethell and Ollie Pope. England have plenty of justification for sticking with Pope. He has just made a century, is Stokes’ vice-captain, has a good record at number three and has...
What happens when the most powerful people give up on the future — but still control the schools? To understand what’s happening in education today — the banning of books, the rise of AI that surveils and dehumanizes learning, the outlawing of honest lessons on race and gender, and the criminalization of critical thought —...
Fantasy Conclave can be fun and informative, when not taken too seriously. The mainstream media that barely covers the Catholic Church looooves to engage in tea-leaf reading to suss out how 135 electors will choose between 135 — and maybe more — potential candidates for Pope. They are usually very good at creating “short lists”...
David White BBC Radio Cornwall BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Joss Barratt Zahra Ahmedi said she “really likes” her character Esther Williams Kath Peters BBC Radio Cornwall One of the stars of the hit BBC TV drama Beyond Paradise says the show has taken a “grittier” turn in its third series. Zahra Ahmedi plays DS Esther Williams, who...
Getty Images A saliva test may help “turn the tide” on prostate cancer, UK scientists claim. It analyses men’s DNA to work out who was born with the greatest risk of developing the disease. Targeting them for prostate biopsies and MRI scans discovered some aggressive cancers that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. However, the test...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Reuters Thousands of people in Turkey have turned out for a seventh night of protests which have so far seen more than 1,400 people detained, including students, journalists and lawyers. The nightly unrest began last Wednesday when the city’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – who is seen as the President Recep Tayyip...