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New heartbreak for Roy as Brook snaps up spot

ENGLAND have left the World Cup door open to Jason Roy as a possible reserve, after the batter suffered the \"hammer-blow\" of being axed on the eve of a second successive global tournament.

Problems building for Poch as fans again boo injury-hit side after toothless display

CHELSEA have a new manager and almost an entirely new team, but the same problems.

Duo make room for AI to crack £700bn homewares market

HOME interiors marketplace Fy! sounds like somewhere tech buzzwords go to breed: it gobbles up social content and uses that, alongside machine learning and a vast vault of data, to give shoppers a personalised experience that lures them to spend more money.

Pendragon to sell UK motor business in shift to States

CAR dealership firm Pendragon is set to sell its UK motor business, including CarStore and luxury vehicle sales firm Stratsone, in order to focus on the sales management tech it offers to other dealerships.

Sorrell S4 warning sends chill through ad market

SIR Martin Sorrell sent a chill through the advertising market today when he warned that revenues and profit margins at his S4 business are tumbling after a weak summer.

What everyone wants this LFW is a slice of the action - and rugby shirts

EVERYBODY wants in on the halo effect of London's cool creativity this fashion week. I often find it quite hard to explain what it's like going to fashion week. A show on the hour every hour for five 12-hour days. There's the low-level underlying anxiety at all points and mild wardrobe hysteria with the thought that perhaps you should have put in more effort.

Brave Sir Salman has challenged his own side

THE old warhorse has come out for another battle. Sir Salman Rushdie, his eye covered with a patch from a terrifying attack last year by a young man who said he disliked his views on Islam, appeared last week at the National First Amendment conference in Philadelphia to discuss threats to free speech. The very fact that he appeared remotely says it all — it was during a similar event that he was stabbed repeatedly; he’s not a free man.

They make a wasteland and they call it progress on HS2

IF you have occasion to take the Elizabeth line from one of the Ealing stations you will soon pass a large area of London that might come as something of a surprise to you. Old Oak Common is slowly being turned into what the Government likes to call “a new super-hub set to be the best-connected and largest new railway station ever built in the UK”.

Record-breaker Ricky has it both ways in his pithy war with words

LIFE looks good for Ricky Gervais as he continued a sell-out run at the Palladium. Last week he received official confirmation that his Armageddon show at the Hollywood Bowl in May broke the record for a single stand-up performance, grossing over £1.4 million.

Truss mocked as she once again blames 'anti-growth coalition'

LIZ TRUSS'S defence of her economic agenda was met with derision today, a year on since her minibudget crashed the economy.

Five Met officers accused over search of Team GB athlete

FIVE Metropolitan Police officers were today appearing at a gross misconduct hearing over the stop and search of Team GB athlete Bianca Williams.

Starmer warned of tough choice over revisiting Brexit

SIR Keir Starmer would face difficult decisions when renegotiating Britain’s Brexit deal, experts warned today.

How jokes jar after claims that have been talked about for years

CONTROVERSY was never a stranger to the GQ Men of the Year awards. In their pomp, we held the annual event at the Royal Opera House, a deliberately august venue in which to create a little havoc. We celebrated everyone from Samuel Jackson and Keith Richards to Yoko Ono and Tony Bennett, from Michael Douglas to Madonna. The awards were like the Met Gala on steroids, and they were a hell of a lot of fun.

Brand faces new claims as more women come forward after TV exposé

MORE women were today reported to have come forward to make allegations against Russell Brand as the head of a parliamentary committee called for police to begin a criminal investigation into his conduct.

ENGLAND BOOST AFTER SINCKLER GETS GO-AHEAD

PROP FINALLY OVER CHEST INJURY AND SET TO START AGAINST JAPAN, WHILE VUNIPOLA ALSO MAKES RETURN

Brave Blossoms’ budding style means Ford can get England attack in bloom

Fly-half ready to pull the strings in bid to get Borthwick’s men back to their fluent best

Frustrations boil over as minnows give secona-string hosts a real scare

FRANCE expected a cakewalk against Uruguay in Lille last night, but instead were caught up in a bun fight.

Paqueta’s chance to show City what they have missed out on

IT WOULD hardly have taken too vigorous a flapping of a butterfly’s wings for Lucas Paqueta to be returning to London Stadium tomorrow as a Manchester City player.

Rice has qualities to ensure Arsenal are not Toffees puddings

GIVEN how much Everton have struggled in recent seasons, Arsenal’s record at Goodison Park is surprising.

Richarlison has perfect boss to get him backfiring again

Postecoglou will offer support

New tech fund can help revive the London market for listings

THE saga of chip designer Arm’s move to New York has triggered much soul-searching about the future of London as a home for tech businesses, and its destiny as a capital market more generally.

Bond Street lettings nearing record’

BOND STREET is having another bumper year with store lettings closing in on last year’s record and the vacancy rate falling back to pre-Covid levels, new data reveals today.

Poirot at Halloween is a bit of a fright

TO say this is Kenneth Branagh’s best Hercule Poirot movie yet is undoubtedly true, but means little. Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile were ridiculous.

Go on, shed a tear or two at this true hymn to the human spirit

THIS exuberant, inclusive musical tells the true story of teenage rugby star Henry Fraser, who was paralysed from the shoulders down in a holiday swimming accident in 2009 but became a successful painter.

Welcome back to the fold, Freddie. Now let’s make this a permanent arrangement

IT IS little surprise that this year's Ashes drew so many comparisons to 2005's epic, since so many of that great series' heroes were so prominently involved.

Sara’s father and stepmother on murder charge

SARA Sharif’s father, stepmother and uncle were today set to appear in court charged with her murder.

Posh Sleepover star tn court clash with celebrity nail artist

A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE TV property developer has launched a High Court appeal against an “obscene” £740,000 payment awarded to a celebrity nail artist who bought a house from him that was plagued with damp.

The inside story of how British missiles were used to attack the Russian fleet

Storm Shadow weapons were critical in Ukraine’s attack on Sevastopol this week, destroying a submarine, large landing ship and crippling the vital dry dock.

Boks blow as Marx is out of tournament

SOUTH AFRICA hooker Malcolm Marx will miss the rest of the World Cup after sustaining knee ligament damage, writes Nick Purewal.

World Cup over for Cherry after slip on stairs

SCOTLAND hooker Dave Cherry has been ruled out of the World Cup after sustaining a concussion, writes Nick Purewal.