Month: July 2020

Third practice and qualifying is live on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Sport website from 11:00 BSTAlexander Albon suffered a heavy crash in his Red Bull as Lance Stroll’s Racing Point set the pace in second practice at the British Grand Prix.Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton were only third and fifth,…

Heather Watson has beaten Beth Grey, Eden Silva, Emma Raducanu and Maia Lumsden this weekBritish number two Heather Watson continued to build up to the return of the professional tour with another fine win at the Battle of the Brits.Watson, 28, won her fourth singles match of the week with a ruthless 6-0 6-1 victory…

Image copyright Family handout Image caption Kelly Bossons said the grief of losing her partner had been “simply immeasurable” The pregnant fiancée of a footballer killed on a night out said his attackers have “denied our unborn child of ever getting to meet its father”. Three men have been jailed for assaulting Jordan Sinnott on…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The hand sanitiser, not pictured, has been sent for additional testing At least 10 people have died after drinking alcohol-based sanitiser after liquor shops were closed in a village in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.The village of Kurichedu has been placed in lockdown after a local surge in cases…

“We had a great life…I’m remembering the good times and not those last two weeks.”Sandra Wilson is learning to live without her husband Ian, who died with Covid-19 before lockdown began.She says her new normal will never be the same as before but life goes on.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Many businesses refused to take cash payments during the lockdown, and contactless payments are still preferred A bakery manager who paid for customers’ purchases with her own card so they could use cash has been sacked.Megan Metcalfe, 60, said she did it to help elderly shoppers at Birds Bakery…

Celtic captain Scott Brown is hoping for another league titleNeil Lennon believes his Celtic team will be “up there” alongside the club’s greatest ever sides if they complete 10-in-a-row this season. Celtic start their Scottish Premiership campaign on Sunday and are targeting a historic 10th consecutive title.Lennon acknowledges the 1967 Lisbon Lions will always be…

Tory MP Craig Whittaker says BAME communities need to be helped to ensure there are no excess deaths. He said his parliamentary email address has had “hate emails” after he said the “vast majority” of those breaking lockdown in his constituency were from BAME backgrounds.

Saracens, Premiership champions in 2018-19, will play in the Championship next season after being relegated from the top flightA plan to ring-fence the English Premiership and create a draft system of young players is being considered by the Rugby Football Union.Former Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths has proposed a complete rebranding of the Championship.The second-tier…

(LONDON) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson put some planned measures to ease the U.K.’s lockdown on hold Friday, just hours before they were due to take effect, saying the number of new coronavirus cases in the country is on the rise for the first time since May. Johnson said at a news conference that statistics…