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Possum hunts, Antarctica and the army: one woman’s road to winning the most extreme mountain bike contest

The first woman to land a backflip in competition, Robin Goomes grew up on a remote island off New Zealand and sold possum furs to buy her first dirt bike aged 10

Growing up in the remote Chatham Isla…

4 days ago

Leeds crossbow suspect ‘wrote Facebook manifesto citing terrorism and misogynistic rage’

Owen Lawrence, 38, believed to have shot two women in Headingley before turning weapon on himself

The suspect in the Leeds crossbow attack wrote a Facebook manifesto espousing plans for “terrorism, re…

The Breakdown | Red Roses triumph again but cannot afford another World Cup wobble

Seven straight Six Nations titles is impressive but rivals may have been encouraged by the nervous finish against France

There are two contrasting schools of thought after England’s grand-slam clinchi…

I was 19 and on the trip of a lifetime – then I drank a cocktail laced with methanol

In a bar in Bali, Ashley King was given a lethal drink. A day later, she realised she was going blind. She thought all her dreams were over – but the reality proved very different

The last night of As…

5 days ago

ICC rejects Ben Stokes’ plea for review of over-rate penalties in Tests

  • England docked 22 points in World Test Championship
  • ECB understood to be disappointed by lack of change

Ben Stokess’ plea for changes to the system of over-rate penalties that led to England being dock…

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness

An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure

Tracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 30ft-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool. It…

8 days ago

Princess Anne pays solemn Anzac Day tribute in Gallipoli while the Duchess of Edinburgh leads dawn service in Hyde Park

On a day when Australian and New Zealand forces who were killed in the Gallipoli landings in 1915, the Princess Royal laid a wreath on that fateful coastline.

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