ICC World Cup Cricket, Old Trafford, Manchester India Vs Pakistan India 336-5 (50 ov) Rahu; 57 off 78, 3 fours, 2 sixes Rohit Sharma 140 off 113, 14 fours, 3 sixes, Virat Kohli 77 off 65, 7 fours, Amir 2-47, Hassan 1-84, Wahab 1-71. Pakistan 212-6 (40.00) Fakhar 62 off 75, 7 fours, 1 six,…
Martin Morris who started collected at the age of five has a collection of 36, 000 Marvel and DC comics. Martin Morris (63) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, has a 1962 edition that introduced Spider-Man for the first time is thought to be worth over £10, 000. Morris decided to sell them on eBay after having…
ICC Cricket World Cup at Cardiff South Africa Vs Afghanistan South Africa 131-1 ( 28.4 ov) Amla 41* off 83, 4 fours,, de Kock 68 off 72, 8 fours,Phehlukwayo 17* off 17, 2 fours and 1 six, Gulbadin 1-29. Afghanistan 125 ao ( 34.1 ov) Hazratullah 22 off 23, 3 fours, NA Zadran 32 off…
ICC Cricket World Cup at The Oval, London Sri Lanka Vs Australia Sri Lanka 247 ao (4.5 ov) Karunaratne 97 off109, 9 fours, K Perera 52 off 36 balls, 5 fours, 1 six, Kusal Mendis 30 off 37, 2 sixes, Starc 4-55, Cummins 2-38, Behrendorff 1-59, K Richardson 3-47. Australia 334-7 (50) Aaron Finch 153…
Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived in Somerset neighbours to Coleridge and his young wife Sara Fricker in 1797. The four never formed a quartet of equal minds. Adam Nicolson demonstrates what Coleridge had actually written in this spellbinding recreation of the making of Romantic poetry amid the Somerset Quantock Hills – was that “tho’…
Engineering and infrastructure with stimulating and significant ideas in the latest John Browne’s book with empathy for history and place including 15th century Venice highlighting in addition to its trade, ships , glass and architecture, printing centre pioneering the spread of ideas in a Renaissance version of today’s internet and iPhone. L Serenissima was…
ICC WORLD CUP 2019 at Hampshire Bowl. Southampton ENGLAND VS WEST INDIES England 213-2 off 33.1 ov Bairstow 45 off 36, 7 fours, Joe Root 100 off 94, 11 fours, Woakes 40 off 54, 4 fours, Gabriel 2-49. West Indies 212 ao off 44.4 ov Gayle 36 off 41, 5 fours, 1 six, Pooran…
The Saudi buyer’s buying of stakes in the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers has been thrown doubt after the government said it was “minded” to intervene in the deal on public interest grounds. Russian Businessman Evgeny Lebedev has sold minority stakes of the two titles to Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel over the past two years to…
Help to Buy was introduced by David Cameron’s coalition government in 2013, with the aim of helping more people to get on the property ladder, instead 63 per cent of people using the Government’s Help to Buy scheme could have purchased their properties without it, and 19 per cent were not first time buyers. According…
Seventy-two people died when the blaze broke out in the 24-storey block of flat on Latimer Road, North Kensington, West London, just before 01:00 BST on 14 June 2017 exactly two years ago. Why Grenfell Tower burned as regulators put A mosaic memorial, garden and a silent walk are part of the remembrance dedicated to…