When Jesy Nelson was 19 and working behind the bar at a pub in Dagenham, Essex, she remembers watching The X Factor on TV, and thinking: “I know I could win that.” In 2011, she did just that, as part of the girl group Little Mix – and...
A lightning 25-yard strike from Beth England gave Chelsea a win over Tottenham in a historic first Women’s Super League game at Stamford Bridge in front of a rocking 24,564 fans.
The England international’s early goal gave the home side a small cushion but the Blues struggled to capitalise...
Afternoon everyone. So, with the destination of both the drivers’ and constructors’ titles seemingly a foregone conclusion, we may have to absorb ourselves in subplots and controversies and little individual battles as the season enters the home straight. And we’re getting a few. Take yesterday’s qualifying, when a...
Is there a single celebrity who hasn’t written a children’s book? Madonna alone has published a dozen. Unwholesome curmudgeons, venal narcissists, the 1% – the Queen of Jordan is in on the act – all believe they are entitled to cobble together a mothwing of a plot whose...
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Karen Carney’s retirement has led to Sweden’s Magda Eriksson being handed the Chelsea armband. She’s a brilliant player and person. In case you missed it, here’s Nick Ames’s summer interview with Eriksson and Denmark’s Pernille Harder, in which they talk about their kiss in Paris that went...
Warner has done some remarkable things in the longest format. There have been 21 hundreds. One of them was the rare beast that is a century before lunch – a 78-ball blitz against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground – while three times he has passed three-figures in...
There’s a factory in Asia that uses only a single litre of water to make a pair of jeans. That’s 346 litres less than Levi-Strauss estimated it took to make a pair of its jeans in 2015. Wouldn’t you love to buy your jeans from this amazingly innovative...
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Q: Would Labour support a caretaker prime minster other than Jeremy Corbyn?
It has to be Jeremy, McDonnell said. He claimed Corbyn could unite the opposition and ruled out Labour backing any other caretaker prime minister.
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McDonnell confirms that Labour’s commitment to a second referendum and...
The ocean off the western coast of North America is five degrees Fahrenheit hotter than usual after warming at an unusually rapid rate, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
It has been dubbed the “north-east Pacific marine heatwave of 2019”.
Marine heatwaves are defined as oceanic...
