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Eddie Jones set to be sacked with Steve Borthwick lined up for England
Jones has overseen worst results since 2008 this seasonRFU expected to confirm end of head coach’s tenureEddie Jones’s tenure as national head coach looks set to end as the Rugby Football Union attempts to dispel the air of gloom enveloping the English game. Following Wales’s decision to rehire their former coach Warren Gatland, it now leaves Leicester’s Steve Borthwick as the overwhelming frontrunner to replace Jones.The RFU refused to comment publicly on the findings of -
UK airport chaos LIVE: Thousands of passengers stuck in queues amid border control issue
via express.co.ukStansted, Heathrow and Manchester Airports are all reportedly affected. -
Thousands of UK families can get two £100 vouchers to pay for supermarket shopping
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Isle of Man debates assisted dying as mum remembers son's 'horrific' death
via express.co.ukMillie Blenkinsop-French joined a demonstration as the House of Keys voted on key details of an assisted dying bill. -
Tourists hit by UK beach warning as visitors could be fined £1,000 for simple mistake
via express.co.ukCumberland Council has issued an urgent warning to all tourists hoping to spend their summer days at the beach. -
Assisted dying could be legal in UK within five years, says Sir David Davis
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‘Equality my a***!’ Wheelchair user fumes as train disabled ramp put where he can’t use it
via express.co.ukDoug Paulley was unable to board the Northern service from Chesterfield to Leeds because his electric wheelchair did not fit in tiny gap in front of platform pillar -
Teacher 'got pregnant by schoolboy after having sex with another pupil', court hears
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M25 closure: UK traffic chaos as major motorway to be shut for £317m roadworks
via express.co.ukThe M25 will be closed between junctions 9 and 10 from 9pm on Friday, May 10 to 6am on Monday, May 13. -
Enfield: Man killed and boy, 16, rushed to hospital after horror London double stabbing
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Baby dies in Legoland Windsor tragedy - police appeal for witnesses in queue to ride
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Israel-Gaza war live: Palestinians flee Rafah after Israeli strikes; ceasefire talks to resume in Cairo
US pressing Israel to avoid attacks in densely populated areas, official says; Israel sending delegation to Cairo for indirect negotiations on truce with HamasGaza ceasefire hangs in balance as Israel carries out night airstrikes on RafahIsraeli assault on Gaza city of Rafah: what we know so farMiller confirmed that Hamas has “issued a response”, when asked about Hamas’s announcement that they accepted a ceasefire deal.“We are reviewing that response now and discussing it -
‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool
Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024Adrian Dunbar is to curate a festival in Liverpool dedicated to the work of Samuel Beckett. The programme includes four specially commissioned productions, one involving prisoners at HMP Liverpool.The Line of Duty actor said of Beckett: Unbound 2024: “Engaging with Beckett makes you think about the fundamentals of life. Those fundamentals are sometimes hard to engage wit -
TV tonight: Salman Rushdie tells his extraordinary story of being attacked
The author opens up about being stabbed multiple times in 2022. Plus: Eurovision kicks off it’s finale week with a live semi-final from Sweden. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC Two
“One of the first thoughts I had as I saw him coming at me: ‘Oh, it’s you. So it’s you.’” Salman Rushdie tells his extraordinary version of being viciously stabbed multiple times – including in the eye – at a literary event in 2022, where he was abo -
Israel-Gaza war live: ceasefire talks to resume in Cairo; Israeli strikes in Rafah ‘not a major military operation’, says US official
Israel sending delegation to Cairo for indirect negotiations on truce with Hamas; US pressing Israel to avoid attacks in densely populated areas, official saysGaza ceasefire hangs in balance as Israel carries out night airstrikes on RafahIsraeli assault on Gaza city of Rafah: what we know so farMiller confirmed that Hamas has “issued a response”, when asked about Hamas’s announcement that they accepted a ceasefire deal.“We are reviewing that response now and discussing it -
Wet weather woes cause damp start to spring for retailers and restaurants
Consumer caution over high interest rates and energy bills adds to bleak start to the year for sectorCold wet weather and caution about spending amid high interest rates and energy bills have delivered a dismal start to spring for retailers and restaurants, the latest industry figures show.Sales were virtually flat across March and April against the same period a year ago, according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) trade body and advisory firm KPMG. That was despite -
Universal Music’s £119m CEO pay offer may provoke shareholder revolt
Advisory firm urges shareholders to reject ‘excessive’ payout to Lucian Grainge, while Renault may also face backlashUniversal Music Group could become the latest company to face an embarrassing shareholder revolt this AGM season, after an influential advisory firm urged investors to reject an “excessive” €139m (£119m) payout for its chief executive, Lucian Grainge.Glass Lewis said it had “severe reservations” about supporting the Dutch-American mus -
‘The body is everything’: Sung Im Her’s insatiable desire for dance
Each time she takes the stage, the Korean choreographer and dancer asks if it will be the last time. She reflects on crushing stereotypes, breaking into theatre and her 100 failed auditions Sung Im Her was 19 when she took her first dance class. On day one, the teacher told her to lose 20kg in a month and gave her something to bite on while forcing her legs towards the splits. “Harsh, very harsh. Absolutely not recommended,” says the now 47-year-old Korean choreographer and dancer. T -
Rachel Reeves is right: this government is gaslighting us over the economy | Polly Toynbee
Tories will crow about falling inflation and Britain’s waning recession. But the public sees the reality in its shopping basketLabour’s tanks roll relentlessly across Tory lawns, not pausing a heartbeat to celebrate phenomenal local election results in England. It treated the local polls as a military rehearsal for the general election, with ruthless focus on places that will deliver most seats: that includes the south, as well as the north and Midlands, and the party is heading for -
Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition
Bob Olley’s unsettling vision of clash between miners and police is part of 40th anniversary show in Bishop AucklandBob Olley was there 40 years ago at the “battle of Orgreave”. “I saw the violence,” he said, shaking his head. “I thought I was in a foreign country when I saw what the police did. It is hard to believe it happened in this country.”The brutality he and others witnessed on 18 June 1984 as striking miners met 6,000 police officers on horses o -
Extra virgin olive oil prices tipped to top £16 a litre next month
Price rise for mass-market types expected as global production falls to lowest level in more than 10 yearsOlive oil prices are set to climb further this year – heading to more than £16 a litre for a bottle of extra virgin – amid a drop in global production to the lowest level in more than a decade.Lower production in Greece, Morocco and Turkey as part of the natural cycle of olive growth is expected to offset an improving situation in Spain and Italy, where trees have suffered -
Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: poor Alice is doomed
Oh dear – Ms Carter, née Aldridge, had been flourishing and off the drink. But after a sexual slip, she succumbed to the siren call of a bottleThe Furies who had been circling for Alice Carter, née Aldridge, seemed for a time to have retreated. After the various catastrophes of her alcoholism, she had been flourishing in recent months: off the drink, managing the riding stables, pulling through her mother’s death, and successfully co-parenting her daughter Martha alongs -
Asylum seekers ‘hide or flee to Ireland’ to avoid UK Rwanda detentions
Charities fear ‘increasing risks of destitution and exploitation’ of refugees as they go into hidingThe Home Office is dealing with growing fallout from the high-profile round-ups of asylum seekers it wants to send to Rwanda, as some have gone into hiding while others have fled across the border to Ireland.Officials began rounding up asylum seekers to detain them for the Rwanda scheme a week ago, with at least one now on hunger strike and another threatening suicide. Continue reading -
Why are the world’s cities sinking? - podcast
A study has found that more than two dozen US coastal cities are sinking by more than 2mm a year. It’s a similar picture across the world. Nearly half of China’s major cities, as well as places such as Tehran and Jakarta, are facing similar problems. These issues are compounded by sea level rises caused by global heating. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech University and Prof Robert Nicholls of the University of East Anglia to find out what’s m -
Train strikes to halt most trains in south-east England on Tuesday
Commuter routes in and out of London hit as train drivers begin three days of rolling strikes amid six-day overtime banMost trains will not run in south-east England on Tuesday – including on key commuter routes in and out of London – after train drivers embarked on three days of rolling strikes at national rail operators.Drivers in the Aslef union are striking for 24 hours at each English operator between Tuesday and Thursday, while continuing a week-long nationwide overtime ban tha -
Scottish salmon industry challenged over move to drop ‘farmed’ from labels
Fish welfare campaigners say Defra decision facilitates greenwashing and will mislead consumersAnimal welfare campaigners are challenging the decision to allow producers of Scottish salmon to drop the word “farmed” from labelling.An application by the industry body claimed changing the protected name wording on the front of packaging from “Scottish farmed salmon” to “Scottish salmon” made sense because wild salmon was no longer sold in supermarkets, which cons -
‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’ – the inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral
The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’ It’s been 30 years since audiences first met Hugh Grant as a stuttering serial monogamist who falls hopelessly in love with a glamorous American (Andie MacDowell) in Four Weddings and a Funeral. The low-budget romcom, directe -
Germans grill Olaf Scholz over soaring cost of doner kebabs
Die Linke party is among those calling for a Dönerpreisbremse or price cap on the hugely popular street foodThe soaring cost of doner kebabs has led to growing calls in Germany for a government subsidy programme to keep the inflation-hit dish, one of the country’s favourites, affordable as politicians report it is frequently cited as a concern in doorstep conversations with voters.The chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has become so used to being asked about the price of kebabs during public ap -
César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin American literature
He has published more than 100 novels, gives his work away, and his surrealist books have a massive cult following. Now Argentina’s favourite rule-breaker is tipped for the Nobel prizeA few years ago when Patti Smith played at a cultural festival in Denmark, she told the crowd that she was happy to be playing in the presence of one of her favourite authors. It was said she had only agreed to play the festival because the author, César Aira, would be in the audience. Aira, although c -
‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way
With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less costBefore civil war engulfed her Ethiopian home region of Tigray in 2020, Tsega Girma was a prosperous trader who sold stationery and other goods. But when hungry children displaced by the conflict started appearing in the streets, she sold everything and used the proceeds to buy them food.After that money dried up, Tsega appealed to Tigray’s diaspora for do
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