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John Kear, the rugby league broadcaster and former Challenge Cup-winning coach, has died at the age of 71. The Rugby Football League announced that Kear died suddenly on Sunday on his return from covering Wigan Warriors’ Challenge Cup victory at Wembley for the BBC. Kear led nine clubs across a coaching career lasting more than 700 matches, masterminding a shock win for Sheffield Eagles in […]

England departed for the World Cup hoping to climb their footballing Mount Everest this summer. A portion of Thomas Tuchel’s 26-man squad took off from Birmingham airport on Monday morning to their pre-tournament warm-up camp in Florida. Those that did not fly will later join up with the group in the ‘Sunshine State’, including Arsenal’s Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze and Noni Madueke following […]

The UK will not have to pay Rwanda millions of pounds over the failed migrant deportation deal after winning an international court case. The two countries clashed in a three-day hearing in March at The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands. The east African nation sued Britain for more than £100 million, claiming it breached the terms of its agreement and […]

Duran Duran are to embark on a UK arena tour which will see them perform in Glasgow, Liverpool and Belfast. The group, formed in the 1980s and fronted by Simon Le Bon, will begin their tour at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on October 15, going on to perform at Belfast’s SSE Arena on October 18 and Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on October 23, before finishing the tour at […]

The UK is set to welcome fresher conditions on Sunday as baking heat gives way to cooler temperatures and sporadic rain. The Met Office said Saturday marked the end of the sweltering heatwave that has baked the nation for much of this week, with temperatures nearing 30C in south-east England. On Sunday, scattered showers are expected across the UK, with temperatures closer to the average […]

Gunners suffer penalty shootout heartbreak after 1-1 draw with PSG A “devastated” Declan Rice insisted Arsenal will not be defined by their Champions League defeat to Paris St Germain – and vowed to use the emotional agony as fuel to win the competition next season. Arsenal’s bid to end their 140-year wait for the biggest trophy in European club football ended in failure after a 4-3 penalty […]

Govia Thameslink becomes part of Great British Railways The UK’s largest train operator’s services have been taken into public ownership. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander heralded the nationalisation of GoviaThameslinkRailway (GTR) as “a defining moment in our reform of the railway”. GTR services carry more passengers than any other operator in the UK, accounting for one in six train journeys in Britain. Its four brands – Southern,Thameslink, Great Northern […]

Nicola Sturgeon has said her estranged husband Peter Murrell has never explained to her why he embezzled more than £400,000 from the SNP as she spoke of the “trauma” she has gone through. The former Scottish first minister also said she feels like she is “serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit” after Murrell pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh this week […]

A senior minister has warned of “consequences” for public spending of any cut to national insurance after Wes Streeting suggested the move as a way to boost employment. The Labour leadership hopeful suggested a “targeted reduction” of employers’ national insurance contributions in an interview with the Sunday Times as a way to “actively incentivise” hiring, particularly of young people. Labour’s first budget increased employers’ contributions, […]