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TV tonight: Shane Meadows’s first period drama is about the Cragg Vale Coiners | Drama

The Gallows Pole9pm, BBC TwoShane Meadows’ first period drama tells the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners – the 18th-century coin forgers led...

Meet Australia’s first long-distance walker: a 250kg marsupial with ‘heeled hands’ | Australia news

Scientists have identified one of Australia’s first long-distance walkers: a 250kg marsupial with “heeled hands” that roamed across the continent’s arid interior 3.5 million...

UK ministers could ban flavoured vapes to deter sales to children | E-cigarettes

Ministers are considering further vaping laws, such as a ban on colourful branding or flavours, to deter their sale to children amid calls for...

McCarthy insists Republican support for debt deal ‘easy’ despite vocal opposition | US Congress

The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, insisted on Tuesday that supporting the debt ceiling deal would be “easy” for his party...

Mirra Andreeva thanks Andy Murray text for landmark French Open win | French Open 2023

Mirra Andreeva has cited an interaction with Andy Murray as a lucky charm following the 16-year-old’s first grand slam main-draw victory at Roland Garros...

Sevilla take on ‘hardest of Europa League finals’ after troubled season | Europa League

“Any other team would have let go,” Pepe Castro says, but then Sevilla Futbol Club are not any other team, not when it comes...

Trans activists disrupt Kathleen Stock speech at Oxford Union | Transgender

The gender-critical feminist Dr Kathleen Stock was forced to temporarily halt her contested appearance at the Oxford Union after a trans activist glued herself...

Astronomers see 6,000-mile water vapour plume blasting from Saturn moon | Saturn

Astronomers have spotted an enormous plume of water vapour blasting out of Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn that is considered one of the...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turns herself in for 11-year prison term | Theranos

The Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has turned herself in for an 11-year prison sentence, marking a final chapter in a years-long fraud saga that...

It’s a wrap! Why Jeremy Strong shaved his head – and Werner Herzog jumped into a cactus patch | Television

Like most Succession fans, you probably commemorated the show’s finale by blankly staring into the void for several hours after the credits rolled, traumatised...

Djokovic ‘raising tensions’ of Serbia and Kosovo after French Open statement | French Open 2023

The Kosova Tennis Federation has accused Novak Djokovic of contributing to the rising tensions between Serbia and Kosovo following his statements at the French...

Ilya Kabakov, ex-Soviet conceptual artist, dies aged 98 | Installation

Ilya Kabakov, a Ukrainian-born conceptual artist considered to be one of the most influential of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of...

Belief key for Sheffield Wednesday in spectacular return to Championship | Sheffield Wednesday

For Barry Bannan it ultimately came down to iron-clad belief. Yes, Sheffield Wednesday did not play well in the League One playoff final on...

Oldest evidence of plague in Britain found in 4,000-year-old human remains | Archaeology

The oldest evidence for the plague in Britain has been discovered in 4,000-year-old human remains unearthed at bronze age burial sites in Cumbria and...

Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock at 40: the album that foretold today’s anything-goes pop | Malcolm McLaren

The story of what may be the most groundbreaking and prescient album of its era begins with a mystery: what on earth did a...

Marnus Labuschagne: ‘Test cricket has been unbelievable … the game is coming alive’ | The Ashes

Marnus Labuschagne has been putting the glamour into Glamorgan since 2019, but still there is something slightly hallucinatory about finding the world’s best Test...

Edinburgh international children’s festival review – the playful inner child v the serious grownup | Children’s theatre

How curious to be a child trying to make sense of adult behaviour, with its rules, routines and unfathomable absence of fun. Several of...

Where to start with: Kazuo Ishiguro | Books

The Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most critically acclaimed authors writing in English today: the now 68-year-old was twice selected...

‘Better coach, same DNA’: Mourinho matures as Roma target more glory | Europa League

Not long ago, an Italian radio show opened the phones for listeners and a final-year biology student called Marta rang in with a problem....

Council on hook ‘for £10m’ over border post left in limbo by Brexit | Brexit

As white elephants go, few come larger than £25m. That is the cost of the hi-tech border control post, built to government specifications to...

Asda confirms £10bn petrol station merger; shop price growth hits record high – business live | Business

Key eventsA quick check-in on markets at the start of trading this morning. It’s broadly negative across Europe (barring the more domestically-focused FTSE 250): ...

Into the Night: A Year With the Police review – why the fight against crime needs more care | Society books

Matt Lloyd-Rose sounds like an idealistic young man with a well-developed social conscience. A former primary school teacher, he has a deep interest in...

TV tonight: Woody Harrelson and Lena Headey star in big-budget Watergate drama | Drama

White House Plumbers9pm, Sky AtlanticThis satirical drama series about the Watergate scandal – based on the 2007 book Integrity by Egil and Matthew Krogh...

‘So goodnight from me. Goodnight’: Jeremy Paxman departs University Challenge, gentle at last | University Challenge

When television historians write about Jeremy Paxman, most attention will be given to his spell on Newsnight from 1989 to 2014 and the number...

We cling because where else do we go when it’s over for Jimmy Anderson? | Jimmy Anderson

“Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head.” A few weeks ago English cricket was thrown into a medium-sized spasm by...

Woman wins UK cheese rolling race despite being knocked unconscious | England

A woman was knocked unconscious while running down a hill to chase a 3kg (7lb) cheese wheel, but still managed to win her race...

Everton require major overhaul on and off the field after survival | Everton

Sean Dyche made no attempt to sugarcoat Everton’s latest relegation escape after victory against Bournemouth on the final day. Survival afforded the Everton manager...

Jeremy Paxman bows out as host of University Challenge | Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman’s stint as the longest serving current quizmaster on British television will come to an end on Monday night when he presents his...

Martin Scorsese to make another movie about Jesus, he announces after meeting Pope | Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese may follow his acclaimed crime epic about the killing of Native Americans in the US in the 1920s with another film about...

Barnsley v Sheffield Wednesday: League One playoff final – live | League One

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature3 min: On the touchline, Darren Moore drinks thirstily from a water-bottle as...

County cricket: Somerset and Lancashire set early pace in T20 Blast | County Championship

Ball one: Blast off with a whimperTwenty20 cricket is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its founding with celebrations running throughout the season, the ECB...

Drax-owned wood pellet plant in US broke air pollution rules again | Drax

A US plant that supplies wood pellets to the UK power generator Drax has violated air pollution limits in Mississippi, it has emerged.The Mississippi...

The spray-can vigilantes shaming Bogotá for its perilous paving slabs | Colombia

Unlike Bogotá’s graffiti artists, who use hoodies and the cover of night to hide themselves from the authorities, Francisco de Nicolás can be seen...

‘Water is too boring’?! Can you really survive on nothing but coffee, tea or juice? | Health

Guzzling water has become something of a badge of honour among celebrities, with Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow revealing they drink up to three...

Premier League 2022-23 review: players of the season | Premier League

Erling Haaland (Manchester City)There aren’t many players ridiculous enough to mooch through their careers secure in the knowledge that any team in the world...

Can you solve it? Rotation, rotation, rotation | Mathematics

Gather round. Today’s puzzles are all about going in circles. Onward with the revolution!1. Roll with itImagine a weight is being rolled along on...

‘Social mobility is a fairytale’: Faiza Shaheen on fighting for Labour and hating Oxford | Life and style

It was 12 December 2019; the first winter general election in Britain since 1923. Faiza Shaheen walked into Waltham Forest town hall in north-east...

Baby boomtown: does Nagi hold the secret to repopulating Japan? | Japan

Set against mountains and forests, Nagi basks beneath a cobalt sky, reflected in perfectly symmetrical rows of submerged rice paddies. But there is more...

Pencil ‘given to Adolf Hitler by Eva Braun’ could fetch £80,000 at auction | Adolf Hitler

A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler is going under the hammer in Belfast next month and is estimated to sell...

China’s war chest: Beijing seeks to remedy its vulnerability to food and energy embargoes | China

Not much could unite Peng Lifa, the activist who disappeared after staging a rare anti-lockdown protest in Beijing last year, and Xi Jinping, the...

Disbelief hangs in air as Leicester sleepwalk to avoidable relegation | Leicester City

As the clock ticked past 80 minutes at the King Power Stadium, with Leicester beating West Ham but hostage entirely to events at Goodison...

Ex-This Morning doctor Ranj Singh says culture on show became ‘toxic’ | ITV

A TV doctor who previously worked on ITV’s This Morning has said the culture on the show became “toxic” and that he was “managed...

Southampton and Liverpool share eight goals in seesaw draw on day of farewells | Premier League

Pack up the euphoniums, lay down the drumsticks, put away the trumpets. If they thought that the Premier League would last for ever they...

Everton seal Premier League survival as Doucouré screamer sinks Bournemouth | Premier League

Everton extended Abdoulaye Doucouré’s contract earlier this week and the midfielder repaid them by extending their residence in the top flight of English football...

Everton v Bournemouth: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature74 min: Pickford is back to his feet and I think he is...

Turkey election 2023 live: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in presidential runoff | Turkey

Why is there a second vote?Archie Bland and Ruth Michaelson explain why voters have returned to the polls just two weeks after the previous...

Venice police investigate source of bright green liquid in Grand Canal | Venice

Police in Venice are investigating the source of a phosphorescent green liquid patch that appeared on Sunday in the city’s Grand Canal, amid speculation...