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Congratulations, if that is the right word for something you have no control over, to Henry Allingham, who has become the world's oldest man at the age of 113 after the death of Tomoji Tanabe, a Japanese.
Allingham, one of two surviving vetera...
A popular US Christian preacher has been refused entry to Britain leaving thousands stranded at an evangelical rally in London planned for this weekend, the Home Office confirmed today.
Benny Hinn, a televangelist from Texas, who draws large crowds to...
Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorize irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim this week. John Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and...
Do you worry about your calorie intake? Lie about your weight? This used to be strictly the preserve of women. Not any more. It's always assumed that new year's resolutions cause the biggest increase in people signing up to a gym but, ac...
Waste-disposal units designed to turn leftover food into electricity and fertiliser could be built around every town and city as part of a scheme being considered by ministers.
A wonderful letter in today's Times from Mr Francis Ingham, of Paddock Wood, Kent:
Sir, Lord's does indeed plan great changes to cricket (report Nov 18). The artist's impression of how the MCC ground will look in the future depicted 13 fielders....
Line & Length is not always the most optimistic of blogs (I am English after all) but I took heart from the top line given to a press release sent out by the ICC ahead of today's first one-day international.
"Clean sweep will send England to third...
Continuing our series of retrospectives on the past decade. Read the entry for 2000 here, where Andy Flower leads Glenn McGrath by a nose in the vote for your favourite player of that year, and vote on the player of 2001 at the foot of this post....
Three months ago - gosh, was that all? - England won the Ashes at the Brit Oval, thanks to some brilliant bowling from Broad and Swann, a debut hundred by Trott and the second most memorable run-out of Ricky Ponting (sorry Freddie, Pratt still wins for...
Hallelujah to the news that MCC is to reject a plan to name Lord's after a sponsor. Watching England play India in the ToffeeCrispStadium @Lord's.org would have just felt wrong.
There is a certain poetry to the naming of cricket grounds. For more...
