Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Chester-le-Street (day two) Gloucestershire 137: Bracey 60; Aldridge 5-16 Durham 331-8: Bedingham 122; Ahmed 2-52 Durham (5 pts) lead Gloucs (2 pts) by 194 runs Match scorecard David Bedingham’s fifth century of the County Championship season helped promotion chasing Durham consolidate their dominance over Gloucestershire in their Division Two match-up.
The US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves, President Donald Trump announced. “This Historic Transaction MORE THAN DOUBLES American Oil Reserves, greatly increases our Oil Supply, and will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans,” Trump posted on social media. Venezuela’s interim President,
Well, just how good can grief be? That’s a question raised by Sara Bareilles‘ “Good Grief,” which, true to its promissory title, deals primarily with loss and death and the kind of tough stuff that folks in a marketing meeting might suggest slightly downplaying when one is releasing one’s first studio album in seven years.
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Northampton (day two) Kent 345: Crawley 89, Bell-Drummond 70; Procter 2-42 Northants 74-0: Vasconcelos 43* Kent 2 pts, Northants 3 pts Match scorecard Kent captain Daniel Bell-Drummond passed 10,000 first-class career runs with a vital knock of 70 to counter Northamptonshire’s spirited fightback with the ball in their County Championship
Ahead of the referendum, the two sides held a televised debate where the Yes campaign team was headed by Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir and the No campaign was led by Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, chair of the opposition Independence Party. Kristrún told the audience that Iceland was already well integrated in the European Union, and becoming a
Apparently the deep and much-talked-about rift between the Who and former (and future?) drummer Zak Starkey was not quite a hell-freezes-over situation after all. Starkey, who was famously revealed to have been unceremoniously handed his walking orders in April 2025, is now back with Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend … or at least he has
