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Boxing: Lee Purdy can't make either the weight or a title fight of it
Sunday 19 May 2013
Late stand-in comes up short as his conqueror looks to take on Khan
Motorcycling: Pedrosa roars to top of table
Sunday 19 May 2013
Dani Pedrosa won the French Grand Prix yesterday, his second victory of the season, to take over the MotoGP championship lead from Marc Marquez.
Live: England vs New Zealand
Sunday 19 May 2013
Click the link below to read yesterday's live over-by-over report. Or check back throughout the day for updates from today's play.
Stalemate threatens European deadline
Sunday 19 May 2013
While England's clubs continue to promise that next year's Heineken Cup final will be the last under the present format, and talk is rife of a replacement competition involving English, French and Welsh clubs, the status quo is a stalemate.
England v New Zealand (First Test, day three) report: Joe Root grows in stature to sow seeds of revival
Saturday 18 May 2013
England 232 & 180-6 v New Zealand 207: Yorkshire batsman brings England back into the first Test with gutsy innings but late flurry of wickets also offers Kiwis hope of victory, writes Stephen Brenkley at Lord’s
Tough property market causes rent price hike
Saturday 18 May 2013
Rents are rising throughout England and Wales for the first time since November 2011, according to LSL Property Services.
Boxing: Purdy set to join long list of British fighters who take the money – and then the beating
Saturday 18 May 2013
Lee Purdy will add his name to a long and distinguished list of British boxers who travelled to most points of the globe for world-title fights knowing that they were massive underdogs.
James Lawton: 301 proves to be magic number for James Anderson
Saturday 18 May 2013
Jimmy Anderson brushed against history again when he took his 300th Test wicket but it was the one which followed that was most crucial to England’s embattled cause.
Police review of Madeleine McCann case identifies new leads and 'more than a handful' of persons of interest
Friday 17 May 2013
Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell said the people could be investigated further if only to be eliminated as people of interest.
Arifa Akbar: A simple, enraging story that provokes action? That's a book after Orwell's own heart
Friday 17 May 2013
The Week in Books
Average rent in England and Wales now £736 per month
Friday 17 May 2013
Rents in April increased to their highest level since November 2012
Police name toddler found dead in Oxfordshire house as international search for her mother gets underway
Friday 17 May 2013
The body of the child was found at a house in Bicester after police received a report from a family member who was worried about her welfare
England manager Roy Hodgson leads the tributes as David Beckham hangs up his boots for one last time
Friday 17 May 2013
The former England captain will stop playing at the end of the season
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Serena Williams apologises after comment that rape victim 'shouldn't have put herself in that position'
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Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
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Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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