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It was a chastening evening for the Challenge Cup holders, who found Leeds simply too hot to handle. They were not helped by first-half injuries to forwards Sauaso Sue and Jai Whitbread, which took them out of the contest and, in the case of Sue in particular, looks serious enough …

Wayne Rooney says Yoane Wissa removing everything associated with Brentford from his Instagram account is “very disrespectful”. Newcastle have had a £40m bid rejected for Wissa, while the Magpies are also in the midst of drama surrounding their striker Alexander Isak’s future. Speaking on his new BBC podcast, The Wayne …

Danny Fullbrook & Louise Parry BBC News, Buckinghamshire Greystoke The plans for the landfill site in Iver had been rejected by Buckinghamshire Council in June 2024 (artist impression) Campaigners are taking legal action over the government’s decision that a large data centre should be built. In June 2024, Buckinghamshire Council …

Spectacular fifties from Jordan Cox and Sam Curran fired Oval Invincibles to a thrilling six-wicket victory over Trent Rockets in a table-topping clash in The Hundred. Cox hammered an unbeaten 58 from 32 balls and Curran struck 54 from 24, as the Invincibles hit a remarkable 103 runs from 28 …

Glamorgan men’s head coach Richard Dawson has signed a three-year contract extension to stay with the Welsh county. Dawson was appointed coach until the end of the 2025 season in January, taking over after Grant Bradburn was sacked the previous month following a charge of misconduct that resulted in a …

Lynn welcomes the competitiveness in his 32-player squad, admitting he had some selection headaches before naming his team for Saturday’s opener. “That’s where we’re at at the moment. It’s really nice, the competitiveness that we’ve got in the squad,” he said. “Today it got a little bit spicy in training …

I didn’t feel Arsenal’s performance was there against Manchester United but still, at least they found a way to win. All the talk in this game is going to be about Viktor Gyokeres and whether he can get off the mark. There was such an overreaction after he didn’t score …

[ (A–D) Photomicrographs of testicular sections of animals from CG and IG submitted to CD68 (A, B) and CD163 (C, D) immunohistochemistry. Nuclear staining with hematoxylin. In (A) the interstitial tissue shows a few CD68+ macrophages (arrows) in comparison to the high incidence of these cells observed in IG (B). …

The SNP spent more than £100,000 on the campervan that was seized from the driveway of Nicola Sturgeon’s mother-in-law, the party’s financial accounts have revealed. The luxury vehicle, which was confiscated two years ago by Police Scotland as part of Operation Branchform, remains impounded and is now worth less than …

No-one in the England squad has more World Cup experience than Emily Scarratt. The 35-year-old centre, lining up for her fifth campaign, is the only survivor from the last time the tournament was in England. “A home World Cup is massive,” she said earlier this month. “I was part of …

Mark Denten Correspondent, BBC North East and Cumbria BBC Marketing manager Jade Damarell died as a result of “blunt trauma”, a post-mortem examination found An inquest has found a 32-year-old woman, who died while skydiving the day after her relationship ended, took her own life. Marketing manager Jade Damarell died …

Trent Rockets kept their slim qualification hopes alive with a six-wicket win over Oval Invincibles in the women’s Hundred. Rockets made hard work of chasing just 110 at The Kia Oval after a flurry of middle-order wickets, but Heather Graham held her nerve with an unbeaten 19 from 11 balls …

London Underground workers will stage a series of strikes for seven days next month in a dispute over pay and conditions. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said its Tube members will take industrial action at different times from 5 September. The union claimed management had refused to engage …

Tributes have been paid to a “beloved” grandfather who died in hospital after being involved in a crash. Motorcylist Kenneth Bright, from Llanharry, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was taken to hospital by ambulance after colliding with a car on the A4106 in Tythegston, Bridgend at 13:50 BST on 1 July. He …

Drivers and engineers at one of Northern Ireland’s biggest agri-food businesses have voted to accept an improved pay deal, ending industrial action. Workers at Dale Farm sites in Cookstown, Ballymena, Omagh and Enniskillen were due to begin a three day strike on Wednesday, with action due to escalate week on …

Tourists have been warned not to enter the sea on the Costa Blanca in southern Spain after a poisonous sea creature was spotted. Swimming was banned along a seven-mile stretch of coast around Guardamar del Segura area just north of Torrevieja following the appearance of so-called blue dragons. Jose Luis …

Thirteen unreleased Beatles tracks are set to feature on a new Anthology compilation – almost 30 years since the last. The announcement comes following a big hint from Paul McCartney and the other official Beatles social media channels, which all shared a carousel of images containing the numbers one to …

Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, Germany’s prosecutor general said on Thursday. The suspect, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, was part of a group of people who planted devices on the pipelines near the Danish island …

Three endangered red panda cubs have been welcomed at a zoo in south-west Wales. The species is listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list, and red panda numbers continue to decline due to deforestation, hunting and diseases spread from domestic dogs and cats, …

Controversial FCSB owner Gigi Becali caused a bit of a stir in the north-east of Scotland after his club set up a Europa League play-off against Aberdeen. Becali is so confident of his club progressing that he has apparently already accounted for the money his side will rake in for …