CRICKET gave him sporting glory and helped turn him into one of Britain’s best-loved TV stars – but Freddie Flintoff believes his working-class up-bringing almost stopped him succeeding in the game. The former England ace — who is making documentary Field Of Dreams — to help disadvantaged youngsters into theContinue Reading
F our controversial statues will stay on a university building in south London after locals voted for them to stay. The consultation, carried out in Lewisham by Goldsmiths, University of London, asked people what should happen to the statues of Elizabethan explorer Sir Francis Drake, Cromwellian admiral Robert Blake, LordContinue Reading
Participants on a Women's March rally in front of San Francisco's City Hall in 2019. Sundry Photography | Shutterstock Since 2021, hard-won women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy have been rolled back in the US in an alarming fashion. With state bans on abortion past as little as six weeksContinue Reading
In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone on May 8, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to end unwanted pregnancies withContinue Reading
MANCHESTER CITY and Liverpool are set to knuckle down and battle it out for Premier League glory again this season. And Sky Bet have boosted the odds for both sides to again hit at least 90 points to 8/1 from 6/1 with a £10 max stake – and you canContinue Reading
Photoroyalty/Shutterstock The COVID pandemic has been going on for well over two years now. During this time, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) has slowly mutated, allowing it to evade the immune system enough to infect people many times. As so many of us have had COVID already, it’s noContinue Reading
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rejected British prime minister Boris Johnson’s claim that he does not see a major diplomatic row erupting over the Northern Ireland Protocol. Mr Johnson is attending the G7 summit in Germany alongside EU leaders, and indicated that the controversial topic is not making priority conversation. HeContinue Reading
For four months, Ukraine has been fighting for its very existence. Having successfully forced Russia to shift focus from a four-fronted offensive to concentrating on the Donbas region in the east of the country, Ukraine is now fighting a bitter war of attrition – losing, depending on whose figures youContinue Reading
From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave.Continue Reading
Eduardo Blanco/Alamy The water crisis at Flint, a town in Michigan, US in 2014 has focused public attention on the dangers of lead exposure, especially in children. A late 2016 investigation found that nearly 3,000 other communities in the US had even worse lead water levels than Flint. A recentlyContinue Reading
