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  • New Man U boss Moyes imprints identity by axing Fergies backroom staff

    New Manchester United boss David Moyes has started to imprints his own identity on the club by wielding the axe on former boss Sir Alex Ferguson's backroom staff at United. The former Everton boss booted out No.2 Mike Phelan, who had been Ferguson's right-hand man since 2008, and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, as he reportedly wants his own assistants in Old Trafford, the Mirror reports. The ...

  • Exhausted Vettori faces black cloud over Test future after Leeds Test pull out

    According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds, fearing that his body cannot cope with the strenuous exertion in the five days that will follow. According to Stuff.co.nz, although the former captain was poised to overtake Stephen Fleming for a record 112th ...

  • Prince William very excited about becoming dad

    Prince William is very excited at the prospect of becoming a father, the chief executive of a charity has revealed. "He is looking forward to being a dad. He's very excited about it," People magazine quoted Seyi Obakin, chief executive of the charity Centrepoint - whose aim is to help homeless young people -, as saying. During the secret visit to Centrepoint's Bruce House in London earlier ...

  • Matt Kvesics selection for England marks return of the specialist No7

    England have found themselves at sixes and sevens in the back row in recent years, too many sixes and not enough out-and-out sevens. It was a legacy of how teams in the Premiership operated with the breakdown more a means of recycling the ball than a contest for possession, but that is changing.A number of clubs are now operating with an openside flanker in the scavenging, linking mould of ...

  • Root comes of age for England in familiar surroundings

    Proud sons of Yorkshire have served England well with the bat in 136 years of Test cricket and Headingley rose as one today to acclaim a new home-grown hero in centurion Joe Root. The likes of Herbert Sutcliffe, Leonard Hutton, Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Vaughan have batted with distinction for England. Sutcliffe and Hutton's run-scoring feats have never been forgotten by proud ...


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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse [DVD]

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  • Britain resists EU bid to set new target on renewable energy

    renewable energy target within the EU, in a move that could put at risk tens of billions of pounds of green investment and tens of thousands of new jobs.But in a sop to environment campaigners, ministers will agree to tough greenhouse gas emissions targets by 2030.The question of a renewable energy target for 2030 - to take over from the current goal, of generating 20% of energy in the EU from ...

  • Englands Nick Compton watches Joe Roots century with mixed feelings | Mike Selvey

    England batsmen Joe Root, left, and Jonny Bairstow, celebrate during the second Test against New Zealand. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty ...

  • Root lifts England with maiden Test century

    Joe Root hit a maiden Test century on his home ground at Headingley and county colleague Jonny Bairstow chipped in with 64 to leave England on top at 337 for seven in the second Test against New Zealand today. Root, in his sixth Test, punched the air and gleefully hugged fellow Yorkshireman Bairstow after steering Doug Bracewell to the third-man boundary to bring up his hundred. "It ...

  • Woolwich attack coalition failing to tackle extremism says Hazel Blears

    A man weeps outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich as he looks at floral tributes left following an attack that left Lee Rigby, a soldier in the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, dead. Photograph: Gareth ...

  • England grateful to Joe Root and Jonnie Bairstow against New Zealand

    England's Jonny Bairstow, left, and Joe Root run between the wickets during the second Test match against New Zealand at Headingley. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty ...

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