James Blunt on his ‘made-up’ memoir, Carrie Fisher and losing a child
Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Getty Images The star still draws huge crowds as he prepares to release his seventh album and a “made up” memoir It’s 11am and James Blunt is polishing off a pork pie. “This is breakfast,” he explains as his Zoom image comes into focus. “We just moved house, so what […]
The Hundred: Will Jacks hits stunning century as Oval Invincibles beat Southern Brave
In the second women’s match of the day, Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Adams helped Southern Brave maintain their perfect start to The Hundred with a 12-run win over defending champions Oval Invincibles. Mandhana was in top form, scoring an elegant 46 from 25 balls, to get the Brave off to a rapid start before her […]
How it feels to be a pro female e-sports player in China
Danny Vincent Features correspondent What life is like for the gifted young women of China’s e-sports scene Professional female video gamer Shan Chen used to encounter men who didn’t think she could play – now she leaves those opponents in the dust. In the video above, Danny Vincent discovers what life is like for a […]
Ipswich mother tells of her baby death heartbreak
Laurence Cawley BBC News, Suffolk Family Callan Brett, 33, of Ipswich, lost her son Henry to infant acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2021 A mother whose baby son died of a rare form of blood cancer says she hopes new research will spare other families from similar “heartbreak”. Callan Brett, 33, from Ipswich, lost her […]
Races won by women up 76% in five years as ‘Just Jockeys’ campaign launched
Horse racing is a rare sport in that women regularly compete against men at the top level on an equal footing. The campaign, which features female and male riders including champion Flat jockey Oisin Murphy, is aimed at showing there is no need to differentiate between the exploits of male and female jockeys – they […]
Charlotte Jenner: Apprentice jockey calls for rides ‘equality’
“Sometimes it is strength and they can be as strong, but it’s also finesse. I had a flat horse a little while ago, all kinds of really top male jockeys rode him, one day I had a top women jockey on him and he won when she rode him.” The British Horseracing Authority insists there […]
New tax divides India’s booming computer games sector
Kamala Thiagarajan in Madurai, India Getty Images Charanjot Singh, closest to the camera, plays football computer games for India Charanjot Singh plays football professionally, only he doesn’t wear a pair of boots and run around on a pitch. The 20-year-old instead earns a living playing football computer games, including the tournaments organised by the electronic […]
Why more mega solar farms are coming to the countryside
Ben Schofield BBC political correspondent, East of England Martin Giles/BBC The solar industry says it expects to see more plans for large-scale solar farms The energy industry expects more plans to emerge to convert countryside into solar farms after the government pledged to treble the UK’s capacity to generate solar power over the next five […]
Bianca Devins murder images flood Instagram
Williams/Devins family Bianca Devins Instagram is struggling to remove images of the body of a 17-year-old – apparently posted by the man who has now been charged with her murder. Bianca Devins was killed in Utica, New York, on Sunday morning. The images were posted on Brandon Clark’s account on messaging app Discord, where other […]
New album Can’t Rush Greatness finally lands
Millie Trenholm & Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat Getty Images Central Cee released his debut album on Friday after eight top 10 singles After more than a decade in the game and eight top 10 singles, Central Cee has decided it’s finally time to drop an album. He’s not been in a hurry. The clue’s in […]