With Labour on the ropes and the Tories still warming up it looks set to be a Lib Dem year in today’s local elections. Another contrast is in the relationship our American counterparts have with business. Community colleges have successful business people queuing up to endorse the community college system. With legislatures demanding ever more [...]

The golden eagle is to be reintroduced to Ireland almost a century after the species became extinct on the island. The golden eagle is to be reintroduced to Ireland almost a century after the species became extinct on the island.
Up to 75 golden eagle chicks are to be moved from the Scottish Highlands to Co [...]

Grip is now Eriksson’s assistant but it used to be the other way round. In 1980, Grip was coaching the Swedish Under-21s and invited Eriksson, then coach of IFK Gothenburg, to join him. Both men were strong advocates of the 4-4-2 system, which had been introduced to Sweden by English coaches at Malmö, Bob Houghton, [...]

Other players might have been howled down.The tie was a mere 62 seconds old when his stooping head met Patrik Berger’s corner to force a fine low save from Zbynek Hauzr. Some 13 minutes later, another cross from a Czech, this time from Vladimir Smicer, found Fowler in an even better position. The range was [...]

Former Olympic and world champion Chris Boardman today set a new world one-hour cycling record in the final race of his career.
The 32-year-old Englishman covered 30.723 miles in one hour, eclipsing the record of the legendary Belgian Eddy Merckx set in 1972 set in Mexico City of 30.716 miles.Boardman surpassed the 28-year-old mark by about [...]

It needs to be led by people who believe and should be attended by those who believe.”. The Duchess of York is described as “a vulgarian. vulgar, vulgar vulgar”, by the Queen’s former private secretary in an interview published today which makes it clear that the Royal Family believes it will survive by distancing itself [...]

Colleagues believe Mr Lees may have hurt himself and lost his way or become disorientated.He had driven out to the forest from his hotel in Fort Dauphin in a four-wheel vehicles with a driver and was due to fly back to London on Sunday. “The longer it goes on, the less likely it is that [...]

“It’s like something out of a horror film,” said Nicola Scicluna-Warren, while Marise Swanson likened the doll’s mobile plastic features to those of Clive Anderson. You are not supposed to squeeze the face “due to the complex mechanical nature of the doll”, but with its squashy cheeks this was precisely what all the children wanted [...]

Roy Metha captures chance shots of lovers parting in an out-of-season seaside town. Pauline Squibb’s girl guide portraits remind us that organised fun still goes on in church halls, but, as Hobson says: “The girls look uncomfortable and somehow isolated from the world around them.”Gordon McDonald’s Common Complaints shows uncomfortable images in close- up of [...]

And although two-thirds of men felt their doctors were generally sympathetic, many said GPs and urologists were unwilling to respond to early symptoms, did not always carry out sufficient tests, gave conflicting advice or made unnecessary or ineffective interventions.For details of the Prostate Help Association, send two first class stamps to PHA, Langworth, Lincoln LN3 [...]