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Video shows what it is like to travel under a crossing known as the world’s largest rolling bascule bridge. The Gull Wing Bridge in Lowestoft, Suffolk has a bascule span 130ft (39.5m) long, 72ft (22m) wide and 115ft (35m) tall. It won The Bridge Award for design and construction in …

Zoe Harrison, in competition with Holly Aitchison, has a chance to cement her spot at 10. Lucy Packer, England’s starting nine in their World Cup final defeat by New Zealand three years ago, is trying to unseat Natasha Hunt. In the front-row, there is Springbok-style strength in depth, with hooker …

A jury in Florida has found Tesla partly liable for a 2019 crash in which a Model S sedan using self-driving software killed a pedestrian and severely injured another. Plaintiffs had argued the assistance software, called Autopilot, should have alerted the driver and activated the brakes before the crash. Tesla …

Catherine Doyle BBC News NI Reporting fromBarefield, County Clare Handout Vanessa Whyte and her daughter Sara and son James were fatally shot at a house in Maguiresbridge last Wednesday The funeral service for the mother and her two children murdered in County Fermanagh last week will be held on Saturday. …

Tom Westley passed fifty for the fifth time in eight County Championship innings before rain arrived at Chelmsford to confirm the inevitable draw between Essex and Warwickshire. The rejuvenated Essex captain was 51 not out, with seven fours in his 103-ball innings, to follow his 148 first time round. He …

Media caption, How does the Six Nations scoring work? Emma Middleton BBC Sport journalist How does the Six Nations scoring work? The Six Nations is played in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. That means, with six teams in the tournament, each nation plays five matches. …

Mateo Retegui, top scorer in Italy’s Serie A last season, has joined Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah from Atalanta. Italian media reports Al-Qadsiah have paid more than £56m for the 26-year-old striker, who has signed a four-year contract. The fee would make Retegui the most expensive Italian player of all …

And Just Like That…, the reboot of 90s and early noughties show Sex and the City, will come to a close after its third season, HBO has announced. Show runner Michael Patrick King shared the news on Instagram, saying that as he wrote the last episode, “It became clear to …

PA Media Lord Patrick Vallance, former government chief scientific adviser, gave evidence to the inquiry in west London Boris Johnson pushed for a more “ruthless, authoritarian approach” towards people who refused to self-isolate during the pandemic, according to documents seen by the Covid inquiry. The instinct of policy makers was …

After a 75-minute rain delay took 20 overs off the day’s play, Lancashire made a brisk start to their improbable mission as Australia Test batter Harris and Tom Bailey (16) took their sixth-wicket stand to 53 before Asitha Fernando ripped out Bailey’s off-stump with a fine yorker. Chris Green, who …

The Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s largest arts festival, is getting under way, and the conflict in Gaza seems to be feeding into what’s happening. From shows cancelled to artists divided, it’s no joke. Rachel Creeger has had a distressing start to her stand-up run. Two weeks ago, out of the …

For years now, many performers at Edinburgh Fringe have spoken about their struggles to afford the sky-high prices for their accommodation each August. This year, with Oasis’s reunion tour coming to the city for three nights, the cost of securing a room for a month at the biggest arts festival …

Fifa and players’ union Fifpro have long been in dispute over player burnout. Masters sides with the union in claiming Fifa has not consulted the game properly, on the implementation of the expanded 32-team Club World Cup or next summer’s World Cup, which will be the first to include 48 …

It was Finn Russell who said it first. In the passageway beneath the MCG, in the wake of the Lions securing the series against the Wallabies last Saturday, the fly-half insisted that the job was not yet done in Australia and would only be done if the Lions turned the …

Sofia Carson has established herself as one of Netflix’s most reliable stars, and this week, her newest film drops on streaming: My Oxford Year. It co-stars Carson and Corey Mylchreest and might just be the romance of the summer but it’s just one of several great titles arriving this week. If …

Gloucestershire’s Joe Phillips hit his maiden first class century as the rain-ruined County Championship Division Two match with Middlesex ended in an inevitable draw. After the third day washout, a still wet outfield prevented any play until 13:25 BST, with a minimum of 68 overs left in the game. Resuming …

Jm Jungle, trained by John and Sean Quinn, was a surprise 14-1 winner of the Group Two King George Stakes on the penultimate day of Glorious Goodwood. Ridden by Jason Hart, it was the five-year-old’s first outing at Group-race level. Having broken smartly from the stalls in the far-side group, …

Brooke Guest and Luis Reece both made attacking half-centuries as Derbyshire salvaged a weather assisted draw on the final day of their County Championship fixture against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. With heavy morning rain preventing play until 15:30 BST, Northamptonshire were unable to press home their overnight advantage, having reduced …

Le Court, who became the first African rider to win a stage in the Tour on Wednesday, caught up to the chasing group on the final descent into Chambery to finish sixth and retain the yellow jersey. “I wasn’t feeling so good since the start of the stage, the last …

The British and Irish Lions may be forced into a late change to their starting XV for Saturday’s third and final Test match against Australia with wing Tommy Freeman struggling with a back problem. The 24-year-old sat out Friday’s captain’s run at the Accor Stadium and is understood to be …