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Hearts continue to be the story of the Premiership season after they extended their lead at the top to nine points last Saturday. That was partly down to nearest challengers Celtic having a weekend away from league football as Martin O’Neill’s men booked their place in the Premier Sports Cup …

Championship side Bristol City – owned by Guernsey resident Steve Lansdown – had been tracking Scott’s early progress after an impressive start in adult football and gave him a trial in December 2019. “It was chaos,” said Scott. “The first day I trained with the under-18s, the second day I …

A former Israeli hostage who was released last month has told Israeli TV that he was sexually assaulted during his two years in captivity in Gaza. In an interview with Channel 13’s Hazinor programme, Rom Braslavski, 21, described being stripped naked and tied up by members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad …

Just five days after Doris sustained his injury Maro Itoje was confirmed as Farrell’s Lions skipper, leaving the Irishman facing into into a very different summer. As it turned out, while a sizeable cohort of his Ireland team-mates battled the Wallabies in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, Doris was some 7,000 …

Pacemaker David Tweed was convicted of child sex abuse charges which were later quashed A woman has been sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for one year, for causing the death of disgraced ex-Ireland international rugby player and former councillor David Tweed. The former politician, 61, who been previously …

Former Wales centre Jonathan ‘Fox’ Davies tells Scrum V: The Warm Up that the Welsh Rugby Union once asked a witch doctor to remove dark spirits in the Principality Stadium home dressing room whilst the national team were on a losing run. Watch Scrum V: The Warm Up on BBC …

Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland admits he finds it “difficult to accept” the decision not to send off Celtic defender Auston Trusty in Sunday’s Scottish League Cup semi-final. Trusty’s boot appeared to connect with Butland’s head before being shown a yellow card from referee Nick Walsh with no VAR intervention. The …

Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton, who has been battling illness, will be assessed after he was restricted to a substitute’s role during Thursday’s Europa Conference League win against AZ Alkmaar. Palace manager Oliver Glasner said: “He is still feeling chest and it’s not completely free. “Sometimes we need to cough …

Several people have fallen ill after a “suspicious package” containing white powder was opened at the home base for the presidential plane Air Force One, according to US media reports. A building on the US military base was evacuated on Thursday after an individual “opened a suspicious package”, CNN reported, …

The experiment of using Kookaburra cricket balls in some rounds of the County Championship has been scrapped. Kookaburras have been used in some rounds for each of the past three seasons, but the move was largely unpopular due to the trend of bat dominating ball. Directors of cricket from the …

Dozens of people have been injured in an explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta. Fifty-four people were admitted to hospital, city police chief Asep Edi Suheri told a televised news conference, with the injuries ranging from minor to serious and …

Peter HarrisNorth East and Cumbria correspondent BBC Harleigh Tidd has been in and out of hospital for most of her life A mother has pledged that her family will “live every day to its fullest” after doctors revealed her three-year-old daughter has just weeks left to live. Gateshead toddler Harleigh …

The stir the book has caused is widespread. Former England striker Ellen White was in the Euro 2022 squad alongside Earps and played with Hampton at club and country in her career. She said she felt “uneasy” and “nervous”, as well as “a lot of sadness” discussing the outcry on …

Prince Harry has apologised to Canada for wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers cap while attending a World Series game against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Duke of Sussex and his wife, Meghan, were pictured at the baseball game last Tuesday, which Toronto ultimately lost to the Dodgers in a seventh-game …

The Denver Broncos ground out a narrow 10-7 win over the Las Vegas Raiders to maintain the best record in the NFL. In a tight game, just three points scored in the whole second half but they were vital as Wil Lutz scored a 32-yard field goal to send the …

Matt DeanEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire BBC 12-year-old Tom has aspirations of becoming a Formula 1 racer A 12-year-old racing driver who helps shear sheep on his family’s farm will attempt to become a world champion next month. Tom, from Louth, in Lincolnshire, has the nickname “The Farmer” and is preparing …

Jones may now be 65 but he has no intentions of slowing down any time soon. He had a short second stint as Australia’s head coach in 2023, which ended after nine matches in as many months and an early World Cup exit. There was speculation he had spoken to …

Multiple people have fallen ill after opening a “suspicious package” delivered to the base of operations for Air Force One. A spokesperson for Joint Base Andrews (JBA) in Maryland, near the US capital, Washington DC, said the building the package was opened in was evacuated and those taken ill were …

Scottish football rallied in support of Imrie and his family as the news of Remi’s plight emerged. He would see it first hand as he took his team to face Partick Thistle in a Scottish Championship game. “The moment when I came out of the tunnel at Firhill and saw …

Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney says Chelsea’s senior players should “question” Enzo Maresca’s team selections. The Argentine made seven changes to his starting XI for the 2-2 draw against Qarabag in the Champions League on Wednesday. It was the fifth consecutive match across all competitions that Maresca has made …