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Chris Ashton and Dylan Hartley retained in England squad as Stuart Lancaster names six new faces
Thursday 01 August 2013
England coach names elite player squads and sticks by under-fire duo
Round-Up: Arafat sinks Warwickshire to record low of 73
Monday 22 July 2013
Warwickshire were bowled out for their lowest ever 20-over total of 73 as Somerset won by 10 wickets at Taunton to keep alive their hopes of a fifth straight Twenty20 finals day.
Not a vote winner: Only one in eight would support 'Margaret Thatcher' bank holiday
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Proposal was among raft of parliamentary Bills tabled by Tory backbenchers' group in 'Alternative Queen's Speech'
County Championship round-up: Simon Kerrigan's left-arm magic helps Lancashire to comprehensive win
Thursday 11 July 2013
Bowler of the day
Ricky Ponting hits century in final first-class innings
Thursday 11 July 2013
The former Australia captain was playing for Surrey
County Championship round-up: Lancashire's Simon Katich continues to cause havoc for bowlers
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Ashes watch
County Championship round-up: Nick Compton fails again at the crease
Tuesday 09 July 2013
Ashes Watch
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill handed nine-match ban
Tuesday 02 July 2013
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill has been suspended for nine matches by a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel after he was found guilty of using words that were “obscene, inappropriate and unprofessional” during the Aviva Premiership final.
Poor children are being let down by schools, warns Ofsted
Thursday 20 June 2013
The TeachFirst initiative is narrowing the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils
County Round-Up: Leading wicket-taker in Championship is Australian Steve Magoffin
Saturday 08 June 2013
Ashes watch
Round-Up: Yorkshire are undone by Klinger's 96
Monday 03 June 2013
In the Yorkshire Bank 40, a fighting 96 at Headingley from Group C leaders Gloucestershire's Australian captain, Michael Klinger, condemned Yorkshire to a five-wicket defeat.
County Championship round-up: Ajmal Shahzad settling at Notts
Sunday 02 June 2013
Performance of the day Ajmal Shahzad has made a low-key start to life as a Nottinghamshire bowler following his fall-out with Yorkshire and a move to Lancashire that was curtailed, in effect, when the Red Rose county were relegated. Trent Bridge may be a helpful ground for bowlers but those new to it must first learn how to make it work for them and Shahzad is still getting to grips with his new surroundings. In the sea air at Hove yesterday, he first turned an overnight 35 not out into a maiden half-century for Nottinghamshire. Then he found conditions to his liking with the ball and delivered his best performance so far for his new county, bowling Chris Nash off a bottom edge, cartwheeling Mike Yardy's off stump and finding the edge to have Rory Hamilton-Brown caught at first slip.
Stuart Lancaster turns to Kyle Eastmond's creativity as England face South American XV
Saturday 01 June 2013
Stuart Lancaster hailed Kyle Eastmond’s creative potential after naming the Bath centre in the England side to play a South American XV in Montevideo tomorrow.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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