It’s hardly worth celebrating when they come this easy, is it? Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Morning everyone. England are seven wickets away. Over in the far corner of the office Barry Glendenning is doing a desperate rain-dance, trying to provoke a two-day monsoon, which is pretty much the only thing that is going to redeem [...]
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New wave of evictions threatens Gypsies
Granddaughters of Irish Traveller Mary Ann McCarthy – two of the 50 children facing eviction, with their families, from Dale Farm, near Basildon. Photograph: Susan Craig-Greene Human rights campaigners have condemned a wave of evictions and court actions against Gypsies and Irish Travellers which they say are threatening to extinguish a whole way of life. [...]
Khedira joins Madrid from Stuttgart
Sami Khedira has moved from Stuttgart to Real Madrid after impressing for Germany in the World Cup. Photograph: Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images The Germany midfielder Sami Khedira, who played a major part in his country’s progress to the World Cup semi-finals, is to join Real Madrid from Stuttgart, the Bundesliga club said on Friday. The fee [...]
