First LV=Insurance International Test at Lords NZ Vs. England NZ first Innings. 132 ao Colin de Grandhomme 42 no off 50, 4 fours, Tim Southee 26 off 23, 4 fours, Matty Potts 4-13, James Anderson 4-66 England first Innings 141 ao Zak Crawley 43 off 56, 7 fours, Alex Lees 25 off 77, 2 fours,…
Platinum Jubilee Concert The prince of Wales paid a heartfelt tribute to his “mummy”, the Queen at the Platinum party at the Palace attended by huge crowds. “ You laugh and cry with us and, most importantly have been there for us, for these 70 years. Serving the public was what gets my mother up…
Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app platform is the new “digital media partner” of the Hay Festival on the Welsh Borders, which returned with a flourish for its first full “in-person” gathering out of the pandemic since 2019. The festival had respectful mac-clad enthusiasts, with an eclectic range of events from snatches of Bach to Bad Sex…
Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Forty years later the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain’s standing in the Middle East and is often represented as…
Geetanjali Shree ( Geetanjali Pandey) was born in Manipuri Uttarpradesh, India, and her translator, Daisy Rockwell, the author of Tomb of Sand which scooped this year’s International Booker Prize the first time a work in Hindi had ever won, then one of India’s biggest dairy brands accorded them the highest accolade, a cartoon rendition of…
One of our surprising and greatest, French and international writers, Emmanuel Carrere’s Yoga begins, Carrere embarking on a rigorous 10-day meditative Vipassana Yoga retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, without his mobile phone, as contact with the outside world is forbidden, along with books, pens and other…
IMG_9907 T Pictures: Rajiv Nair The iconic fourth popular tourist destination in London’s, Camden Market, attracting over 250,000 people each week, is a 16-acre patchwork of more than 1, 000 stalls, bars, shops, and cafes associated with counter-cultural movements from punks to hippies, in north London that has been put up for sale which could…
Thanksgiving Service for the Queen’s 70 years on the throne was held at St Paul’s Cathedral in London and attended by Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla, Prince William, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate, Prince Harry, and Meghan. Senior politicians including PM Boris Johnson, and previous prime ministers along with leaders of world faith and others…
Queen Elizabeth II, came to the throne 70 years ago in 1952 and is Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. The Queen is the first British monarch to have a platinum Jubilee. The Queen and royals gathered on the balcony at Buckingham Palace to watch the RAF fly past which included Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, Voyager, and Red Arrows.…
Johnny Depp (58) wins $15m, in his libel case over an article in which his ex-wife said she was a victim of abuse, and Heard wins $2m after jurors find Deep defamed her via his lawyer. The Jury awarded Depp $10m ( £8m) in compensatory damages and $5m in punitive damages. The jury found that…