(Reuters) – England have been fined their entire match fees and docked five World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow rate of overs during their nine-wicket defeat by Australia in the first Ashes test, cricket’s world governing body said on Saturday. Joe Root’s side were ruled to be five overs short of the target …
Cricket – England fined 100% of match fees for slow over rate in Ashes defeat Read More »
By Ian Ransom (Reuters) – Nathan Lyon captured a long-awaited 400th test victim and spun Australia to an emphatic nine-wicket victory in the first Ashes test on Saturday, with England losing eight wickets in a stunning morning collapse on day four at the Gabba. The spin-bowling cult hero grabbed four wickets as England’s batsmen crumbled …
Cricket – Milestone man Lyon spins Australia to thumping Ashes win Read More »
(Reuters) – Australia beat England by nine wickets in the first Ashes test after lunch on day four at the Gabba on Saturday. (Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -The conviction of Ziad Akle, a former Unaoil executive jailed last year for bribery, has been quashed and the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) accused of a “serious failure” in a damning judgment by London’s Court of Appeal. The Attorney General said it had commissioned an independent review after senior …
Unaoil executive’s conviction quashed in heavy blow to UK fraud agency Read More »
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial rested their case on Friday after a fourth woman testified that the British socialite set her up for a sexual encounter with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was a teenager. Maxwell, 59, will now have an opportunity to mount a …
Prosecution rests case in Ghislaine Maxwell sex abuse trial Read More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government published a 10-point action plan on Friday to tackle concussion in sport by developing new protocols alongside sporting bodies and introducing new technology by autumn next year to mitigate head injuries. The plans also include asking sports governing bodies to discuss training protocols with player associations, commissioning new research …
Sport-British government to develop new concussion protocols Read More »
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Brexit minister David Frost said on Friday that further “limited progress” on the issue of medicines had been made in talks with the European Union on post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, but there was no agreement. The two sides have been in intensive talks to resolve difficulties over trade between Great …
‘Limited progress’ on medicines in UK-EU talks but no agreement, UK’s Frost says Read More »
By Kylie MacLellan and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not planning further restrictions in England to contain the significant growth of the Omicron coronavirus variant, his spokesman said on Friday, as Scotland warned it could become dominant within days. Johnson, who sets health rules in England, introduced his “Plan B” …
Plan C? UK PM Johnson not planning further COVID rules despite Omicron Read More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain recorded 58,194 new cases of COVID-19 and a further 120 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, official daily statistics showed on Friday. (Reporting by James Davey, Editing by Paul Sandle)
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday it had signed a trilateral agreement with Norway and the European Union on fishing catch limits for 2022 for six jointly managed fish stocks in the North Sea. The government said the catch levels had been set in line with, or lower than, those advised by the International Council for …
UK, Norway and EU sign agreement on North Sea fishing catch limits Read More »
