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Tom Youngs of Leicester Tigers holds the Aviva Premiership Rugby Player of the Season trophy at the Leicester Tigers training ground

Leicester hooker Tom Youngs wins Aviva Premiership Player of the Year

Youngs was rewarded for a campaign in which he made his England debut and was called up by the British and Irish Lions

The Bank Holiday is gearing up for temperatures topping 20C

Thousands flock to the coast as Britain enjoys temperatures above 20C

But enjoy it while it lasts, because temperatures are expected to tail off into the week

London Welsh in action

London Welsh ready for 'emotional day' as they bow out of the Aviva Premiership

Bottom club Welsh wind up their debut season in English rugby's top flight against Worcester

Lyn Jones has performed minor miracles

London Welsh boss Lyn Jones among candidates for Aviva Premiership rugby director of the season

London Welsh finished bottom of the Premiership this term

Court sketches of Kevin Liverpool (left) and Junior Bradshaw; Joss Stone

Joss Stone plotters guilty of conspiracy to murder

Judge says it may have been a crazy scheme, ‘but it was a very real plan’

Aviva Premiership round-up: Semesa Rokoduguni deflates battling London Welsh

Few would have expected anything else. London Welsh, weighed down by their five-point deduction, showed that they will fight to the end against relegation from the Premiership, but yesterday raw effort was not enough.

Dejected England head coach Stuart Lancaster looks on following his team's defeat to Wales

Stuart Lancaster has confidence in new England coaching pair

England's next focus is the tour of Argentina

Chris Hafa’ufia scores one of the Exiles' three tries

Round-up: Flood reigns over Exeter endeavour

Toby Flood booted Leicester up to second place in the Premiership when he landed four penalties as the Tigers edged Exeter 12-9 in a kicking contest in Devon.

Soul singer Joss Stone was at the centre of a murder plot in 2011

Court hears plot 'to decapitate Joss Stone with samurai sword and dump her body in a river'

Two men plotted to rob and kill the pop star Joss Stone before dumping her body in a river, a court heard.

Exeter’s Luke Arscott scored a try in the shock win over Quins

Round-up: O'Gara dropped from Ireland squad

Ronan O'Gara has been left out of Ireland's extended 32-man squad for next weekend's Six Nations game with France.

Aviva Premiership round-up: Gareth Steenson steers Exeter Chiefs to shock win

Exeter Chiefs completed an Aviva Premiership double over leaders Harlequins with a stunning 27-16 upset at the Stoop yesterday.

Exeter upset leaders Harlequins

Exeter pulled off a stunning Aviva Premiership upset as leaders Harlequins were sent crashing to defeat at the Stoop.

Aviva Premiership round-up: Jamie Elliott pulls the plug on Bath hopes

Jamie Elliott scored two tries as Northampton resisted a brave Bath fightback to complete a 25-23 win in a thrilling Aviva Premiership encounter at Franklin's Gardens yesterday.

Chris Robshaw has emerged as a candidate to lead the Lions

Six Nations: Graham Rowntree warns England about the threat posed by France

England will look to continue their hopes of winning the Grand Slam at Twickenham this weekend

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She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
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Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
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Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

The mellifluous, erudite and witty Coles is the nation's most pop-culture-friendly priest
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Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
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Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
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Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
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Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
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Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

You can’t always depend on the weather – but you can avoid the pitfalls of the British barbecue by preparing an elaborate outdoor feast indoors ahead of time...
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Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance
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10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

Warren Gatland's squad fly Down Under aiming to do justice to the expectations – and hoping the Wallabies stay in the pub
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The Last Word

Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally