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The 31-year-old has 120 caps for his country Wales centre George North has announced that he will retire from international rugby after Saturday’s Six Nations clash against Italy. The 31-year-old, who has won 120 caps, has been recalled to the Wales team for what is a wooden-spoon decider. He wrote on X: “I’ve decided that […]
David Raya saved two penalties as Arsenal beat Porto 4-2 in a shoot-out to reach their first Champions League quarter-final in 14 years. Leandro Trossard’s first-half strike cancelled out a first-leg deficit but Mikel Arteta’s side then struggled to create chances to win the game as the tie finished 1-1 on aggregate. All four of […]
A law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal is being introduced by the Government on Wednesday. The proposed Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill “marks an important step forward in finally clearing” the names of hundreds of wronged branch managers who have had their lives “callously torn […]
Migrants ‘to be offered thousands to move to Rwanda voluntarily’ Migrants who have been refused asylum will be offered thousands of pounds to move to Rwanda under a new “voluntary” scheme as the Government faces an ongoing parliamentary battle over its stalled deportation plan. The proposals are separate to the ambition to send people to the east […]
Singer and presenter Coleen Nolan has urged smokers to follow in her footsteps after she kicked the habit after 40 years of smoking. The 58-year-old recently opened up about how she thought she was “going to die” when she was struggling to breathe as a result of an acute chest infection. After the health scare […]
The Russian Defence Ministry says that Moscow’s military and security forces killed 234 fighters while thwarting an incursion into Russian border regions earlier in the day. In a statement, the ministry blamed the attack on the “Kyiv regime” and “Ukraine’s terrorist formations”, insisting that the Russian military and border forces were able to stop the […]
Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed. The Government said it welcomed the “landmark decision”, adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the “best interests of the child”. Puberty blockers, which pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast […]
Comments reportedly made by a major Conservative Party donor were “racist and wrong”, Downing Street has said after earlier refusing to describe them as such. Frank Hester is alleged to have said Diane Abbott, Britain’s longest-serving black MP, made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”. Rishi Sunak had […]
The two people arrested have been bailed The bodies of 35 people and the suspected ashes of a number of others have been recovered by police investigating a funeral directors over “concern for care of the deceased”. Humberside Police said the remains had been removed from Legacy Independent Funeral Directors on Hessle Road in Hull […]
35 bodies and the suspected ashes of a number of others have been recovered from a Hull funeral directors. Humberside Police said the remains had been removed from Legacy Independent Funeral Directors on Hessle Road in Hull and taken to the mortuary in the city. A 46-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman arrested on suspicion […]