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A trip to Dublin follows on a Friday night to face Ireland on 6 March. Ireland coach Andy Farrell only named two Welsh players in his British and Irish Lions squad for the successful series win in Australia. Ospreys flanker Jac Morgan appeared in the series as a replacement in …

Team GB will send a 53-member team to the Winter Olympics after biathletes Jacques Jeffries and Shawna Pendry became the final members of the party selected to travel to Milan Cortina. The team selected for the Games is larger than the 50-person squad sent to Beijing in 2022. Jeffries and …

Fiona Stalker and Robbie BoyleBBC Scotland News PA Media Insch in Aberdeenshire was one of the communities hit by heavy snow earlier this year Aberdeenshire Council’s chief executive has called on individuals and communities to take more responsibility during extreme weather to help keep local areas clear. Jim Savege revealed …

Asked whether he was convinced Newport will survive in the Football League, Fuchs said: “Of course. Everybody’s believing that. “The basis of the belief is the work they are doing, working hard for it. “‘Relegation battle’….that’s only because we are where we are right now, but the team has too …

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, at around 9:05am on Saturday. The shooting and the moments before and afterwards were caught on camera. Those images have provoked an outpouring of public anger. The Sky News Data and Forensics team has examined every frame to …

Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche wants the Premier League to ban towels from the sidelines after complaining about the time taken for throw-ins during his side’s 2-0 win at Brentford. Dyche believes it is taking too long for teams to get organised for what is essentially now a full-blown set-piece, …

With the national team picking up some big one-off wins in recent years, Glasgow winning a URC title in 2024, and a sharp upturn in the number of Scots selected for the past two British and Irish Lions tours, hopes have been raised that maybe the long wait for a …

Scarlets have signed former fly-half Billy McBryde on loan from Super Rygbi Cymru side RGC. The 29-year-old son of former Wales forwards coach Robin is set to be involved in Scarlets’ United Rugby Championship (URC) game against Benetton in Treviso on Friday, 30 January, while Sam Costelow and Joe Hawkins …

Data analysts Opta still give Arsenal an 81.7% chance of winning the title, based on 10,000 simulations of each team’s remaining fixtures. Pundits, though, are less certain that Arsenal will end their 22-year wait for a league title this season, with several wondering whether Arteta and his players will hold …

Dewi Lake insists his team will “never give up fighting” despite the turmoil surrounding the domestic game in Wales. Lake captains his country into the 2026 Six Nations on the back of major upheaval around regional rugby. The squad begin preparations for their opening game against England days after news …

Tavares scored twice in the opening eight minutes as Bulls went 3-0 up, and they had doubled that tally 11 minutes later when she completed her first hat-trick. Holly Sundby’s 21st-minute strike made it 7-0 as she recorded a hat-trick, and the pair would go on to each score five …

Ireland come into this year’s championship off the back of an underwhelming 2025 in which they relinquished the Six Nations title to France and endured a mixed autumn with defeats by New Zealand and South Africa and victories over Japan and Australia. And Farrell – who did not coach Ireland …

In a change of format for 2026, there will be seven rounds of fixtures where every team plays each other once. The league will then be split into two groups of four – the top four and the bottom four, who will play the other teams in their group home …

It was a strange weekend for referee Darren England. On Saturday, Farai Hallam, in charge of his first Premier League game, rejected England’s advice as the video assistant referee (VAR) and did not award a penalty to Manchester City for handball. On Sunday, England’s role was reversed in Chelsea‘s 3-1 …

TV chef Nigella Lawson will replace Dame Prue Leith on The Great British Bake Off, broadcaster Channel 4 has confirmed. Dame Prue has been a judge on the reality baking competition since 2017, but announced last week that she would leave the series adding: “Now feels like the right time …

Mike Zellerand Evie Lake,North East and Cumbria Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team It took volunteers seven hours to bring the two walkers back to safety A mountain rescue team says it has been inundated with donations from around the world after it settled an unpaid hotel bill for two walkers. Wasdale …

Northern Ireland’s Dan Harper has won the iconic, fog-hit Daytona 24-hour race from the back of the grid. Harper was racing in the GTD Pro class alongside Max Hesse, Neil Verhagen and Connor de Phillippi in the #1 BMW, run by Paul Miller Racing. The car was disqualified from qualifying …

Jayne McCormack and Ross McKeeBBC News NI PA Media Mike Nesbitt is to continue as Stormont health minister, Jon Burrows has confirmed Mike Nesbitt will remain as Stormont health minister, according to incoming Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Jon Burrows. Burrows also announced his new senior leadership team on Monday. …

Ireland hammered Namibia by eight wickets to win their final Twenty20 Women’s World Cup qualifying group match in Kathmandu. Namibia won the toss and elected to bat but three wickets each from Aimee Maguire and Lara McBride helped Ireland restrict their total to 107-8. Ireland needed just 14.1 overs to …

McLaren and Red Bull have released images of their 2026 Formula 1 cars as pre-season testing starts in Spain. McLaren, who won the drivers’ and constructors’ championship double last year for the first time since 1998, showed the car in the one-off livery it will use for this week’s testing …