IT IS THAT time of year so it is not surprising that the Rugby Football Union was pursuing the principle of peace and goodwill to all clubs yesterday. Oakes’ centre from the left prompted a diving header by Graham Fenton, one of the substitutes, which Jones pushed aside with an outstretched palm. The ball ran [...]

Kallis and Jonty Rhodes rebuilt things, but fell behind the clock.When runs began to come, wickets started to tumble, and so the match helter-skeltered towards its final switchbacks. When he succumbed to a fit of machismo against Allan Donald’s first ball, Australia sagged. Shaun Pollock struck the first blow by stuffing Mark Waugh for nought; [...]

But that grief has turned to anger.”Tom Pendry, Labour’s frontbench spokesman on sport, said restriction and discrimination ran through the Murdoch deal “like letters through a stick of rock. It will be hit in a big way and the game will be fundamentally changed.” Taking up the point, Sproat said that with the World Cup [...]

A combination of these will give you even more time.By doing this, you could leave some evenings free for recreation, which we all need. A balance between work and play is important, and it can be achieved by planning ahead.First, you need to know what you have to do and the time you have available. [...]

There is a belief that Senna regarded her as the latest decoration.Senna may not have been happy at Imola, but then, according to a friend, he confided on the Friday evening, less than 48 hours before he died, that he had never known happiness.Senna had been to see his boss, Frank Williams, a quadriplegic, who [...]

From 1968 he wrote regularly for the Times Literary Supplement about Czech literature.Recently, Hajek had become somewhat disillusioned with developments in the Czech Republic, which seems now to have been largely overtaken by consumerism and commercialism and where there now appears to be little inclination for informed critical debate in the media. A close friend [...]

For the year to January pre-tax profits rose 66 per cent to £7.59m.The figures came the day after Olympus Sports, the rival chain owned by Sears, announced losses of £2m.”We know our market and we don’t go into fashion areas where something is hot one month and then disappears,” Mr Whelan said.JJB’s sales last year [...]

With few exceptions, some pathetic excuses are made for the racist content of the act. The wonder is that the offensive nature of these acts has only just featured in a TV documentary and in the press. As a once semi-professional musician, working on cabaret bills at weekends for a number of years, I have [...]

Next summer the Globe Theatre opens after more than 25 years of indifference, disbelief and mockery. It’s a surprise to many that the Globe is actually going to put on plays Let alone on this sort of scale. The first season runs from mid-June to mid-September, with a resident company of 32 giving two performances [...]

They didn’t; and although her tone is less than lovely in its glacial whiteness, there’s a sleek liquidity that scales the peaks and troughs of an expansive register, an absolute integrity, and mesmerising theatre As befits a triple centenarian, she transcends age. In the last scene, when the dam of gathered tension bursts and lyricism [...]