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A Bletchley Park codebreaker who “inspired women in the Army for decades” has died at the age of 101. Charlotte “Betty” Webb MBE, who was one of the last surviving codebreakers from Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, died on Monday, the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association said. She worked at Bletchley Park as a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), from 1941 to 1945, indexing German messages and paraphrasing Japanese […]

Former captain Charlotte Edwards has been appointed as the new head coach of England Women. Edwards was the immediate favourite when Jon Lewis was sacked in the aftermath of a painful Ashes whitewash and the England and Wales Cricket Board has moved swiftly to get her in, taking less than a fortnight to finalise the move. The 45-year-old said on ecb.co.uk: “I am so delighted to once again be part […]

A centre where researchers will analyse wastewater to detect diseases early and alert officials to potential outbreaks has been launched in a UK-first. The team at the Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection (CWBE) in Bath will test sewage and water used by homes and businesses to look for chemicals and markers of viruses and bacteria. It is hoped the system could one day be rolled […]

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland could be out of action for up to seven weeks, manager Pep Guardiola has said. The prolific Norwegian suffered an ankle injury in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final victory at Bournemouth. The club do not yet know the full extent of the problem, but are hopeful he will be able to play again this season. Guardiola said: “The doctors told me between five and seven weeks. […]

Sir Keir Starmer said it was likely that Donald Trump’s tariffs would hit the UK and promised to act in the national interest in response. The Prime Minister suggested that retaliatory tariffs were possible but stressed that he does not want to see a trade war. The UK will seek to carve out an exemption, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said, but could not give a timescale for when he expects […]

Angela Rayner insisted a rise to the national living wage coming into effect on Tuesday will give workers “more money in their pockets” as households brace for April’s council tax and energy bill hikes. Those eligible aged 21 and over will get a 6.7% pay increase, from £11.44 to £12.21 per hour, while 18 to 20-year-olds will receive an uplift of £1.40, from £8.60 to £10 per hour, under the […]

Manchester City have been dealt a major injury blow with Erling Haaland set for a spell on the sidelines. Haaland suffered an ankle injury during City’s 2-1 FA Cup quarter-final win at Bournemouth on Sunday. The striker had just scored his 30th goal of the season to equalise when he was hurt in a challenge with Cherries midfielder Lewis Cook. City say Haaland underwent initial tests on his ankle on […]

A Burmese student in the UK, whose home was damaged in the Myanmar earthquake, says his family consider themselves lucky compared to others. Aung Kaung Myat, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Sussex, was unable to contact his parents for several hours after he first heard the news of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit his country on Friday. Mr Kaung Myat, from Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city near […]

Marine Le Pen has said a French court ruling barring her from public office is “political” and aims to block her from 2027 election A French court has convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years – a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics. Speaking to French TV channel TF1 in her first reaction […]