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Securing return to EU single market would win Burnham the next election, says former Tory MP turned Labour adviser
Nick Boles, a former Conservative minister who defected to Labour over Brexit, has told The Independent that securing British re-entry to the EU single market would hand Andy Burnham victory at the next general election and cement a legacy to rival Tony Blair’s. Boles is urging the new prime minister to capitalise on “pretty scary”…
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Ex-England bowler Cross to retire at end of summer
Former England international Kate Cross has announced she will retire from cricket at the end of the current summer, bringing to a close a career spanning more than a decade at the top level of the women’s game. The 34-year-old seamer, who has continued playing domestic cricket for Lancashire since losing her England contract last…
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Nia Archives On The Sounds Of Notting Hill Carnival
Nia Archives, the Bradford-born jungle artist and Mercury Prize nominee, has spoken to Clash about her lifelong connection to soundsystem culture and Notting Hill Carnival ahead of its 60th anniversary this year. The interview coincides with a busy summer for the artist, whose second album “Emotional Junglist” has been shortlisted for the 2026 Mercury Prize,…
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Sir Anthony Hopkins often ‘returns’ to Wales on Google Maps
Sir Anthony Hopkins has revealed that he mentally “returns” to Wales almost every day, often by browsing his old neighbourhood on Google Maps’ street photographs. The 88-year-old Port Talbot-born actor, speaking to ITV Wales from his Los Angeles home, said he now feels too old to physically walk the streets of Margam again, so uses…
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England Women U20s squad named amid boycott threat
England Women’s U20s manager Lydia Bedford has named her 21-player squad for the Fifa U20s Women’s World Cup in Poland, despite the ongoing threat of a European boycott of Fifa competitions. The dispute stems from a now-abandoned Fifa Forward Enterprise proposal, which would have created a new company to manage commercial and ticketing rights across…
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Aston Villa’s Rachel Daly: ‘It’s given me more of a focus: club football is my one job’
Rachel Daly, Aston Villa’s captain and a former England international with 84 caps, discusses her leadership role at the club as she enters her fifth season and 19th year in top-flight football. Now 34 and the oldest player in Villa’s squad, she reflects on mentoring younger teammates and the contrast between her early career, when…
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New England woman who posed for incredibly creepy selfie with doll is jailed over nightmarish morgue crimes
Katrina Maclean, 47, a Massachusetts shop owner who once posed for a widely circulated photo with an unsettling doll, has been jailed for two years for her part in a scheme to traffic human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School’s morgue. She admitted buying body parts from Cedric Lodge, the morgue’s former manager, who between…
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Bridget Phillipson accuses senior Reform and Conservative politicians of making racist statements
Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson has accused senior figures in Reform UK and the Conservative Party of making racist statements, as part of a wider warning that racism and sexism are becoming “normalised” in Britain. Speaking on the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast, she named Conservative shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy and Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick, rejecting…
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What Kate told my close source makes me deeply worried as Meghan and Harry return to the UK… William now faces the biggest decision of his life: ROBERT JOBSON
Daily Mail royal commentator Robert Jobson reports that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are relocating from California to Britain before the end of August, with a private house near London and school places secured for Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet from September. He argues the move forces King Charles and Prince William into difficult decisions…