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England aim for fourth Test series win with victory over New Zealand

February 23, 2023

As many are looking to lay down and get some kip this evening in the United Kingdom, 11,500 miles away England’s Test cricket team will be looking to get underway against New Zealand in the series decider. Ben Stokes’ England cannot lose the series given it is being played across two Tests and they are [...]
Football regulator WILL have more powers to investigate club owners but WON’T block takeovers linked to Saudi Arabia or Qatar, says sport minister Stuart Andrew

February 23, 2023

The incoming independent football regulator will be given wider powers to investigate prospective owners – but will not block takeovers by Saudi Arabia or Qatar. A regulator will have more scope to look into the backgrounds of would-be buyers of English teams, similar to the checks in place in financial services. “We are looking at [...]
Designer behind ‘Notre-Dame on fire’ proposal chosen to design Paris 2024 Olympic torch and cauldron

February 23, 2023

A designer who proposed rebuilding Notre-Dame cathedral to make it look like it was on fire has been chosen to create the Olympic torch and cauldron for Paris 2024. Mathieu Lehanneur has also created projects for the Pompidou Centre and worked with brands including Veuve Clicquot, Cartier and Nike. Lehanneur, 48, is due to reveal [...]
Inside Canada’s first residential properties in 10 years

February 23, 2023

There’s no need to take the Tube home, a bout of new properties are opening in Canada To the uninitiated Canada is unfairly thought of as an endless stream of glass-fronted office blocks from which chaotic workers stream, headlessly going between meetings, their only reward being the Tube journey [...]
Watson starts as England name team for Six Nations clash against Wales

February 23, 2023

Anthony Watson will start for England for the first time in two years on Saturday after Steve Borthwick named his side to take on Wales this Saturday in the Six Nations. The Leicester Tigers winger replaces the injured Ollie Hassell-Collins and is joined in the back-three by Max Malins and Freddie Steward. This weekend’s crunch [...]
Cirque Berserk founder: Great circus involves real jeopardy – and the audience needs to feel it

February 23, 2023

In our interview series The Lowdown, we ask performers and directors how they’re feeling ahead of their London show openings. Here, we sit down with Cirque Berserk founder Martin ‘Zippo’ Burton, a legend of the circus scene who’s been performing for 49 years HOW DOES IT FEEL TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF CIRQUE BERSERK? 10 [...]
Romeo and Julie is the perfect romcom for the National Theatre crowd

February 23, 2023

Romeo and Julie is the tale of two star crossed lovers from Splott, Cardiff, whose forbidden love threatens to tear apart two houses not particularly alike in dignity. We first meet the tragic hero elbowdeep in a soiled nappy. This Romeo is a working class, 18-year-old single dad struggling to raise the baby he couldn’t [...]
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons at the Hayward Gallery is a new high bar for installation art

February 23, 2023

The Hayward Gallery has emerged as London’s foremost destination for large-scale installation art since it reopened in 2018, from the bio-technological horror of Lee Bul’s pink tentacles to the jaw-dropping scale of a Finnish spruce in Among the Trees. But even against this backdrop, Mike Nelson’s Extinction Beckons sets a mind-boggling new standard for transforming [...]
How Bitcoin and crypto could revolutionise the housing market

February 23, 2023

While crypto currency like Bitcoin is too volatile an asset to be presetly useful for completing property transactions, there are myriad ways the technology could be applied to property purchases. Here are some ways crypto could change how he sees the future of property sales and how the blockchain could be at its heart. DOES [...]
England Rugby chief to hold crunch talks with Stourbridge over Worcester merger

February 23, 2023

England Rugby chief Bill Sweeney will tomorrow travel to Stourbridge RFC to hold crunch talks about the club’s potential merger with Worcester Warriors. The chief executive is set to hear the views of a number of clubs in the area before the Rugby Football Union chooses to back or block any plans the Warriors’ new [...]