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Neil McLeman quizzes Poulter and Westwood on LIV Golf morals Get the latest news and inside info from the world of golf for FREE SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Throughout history only a select few players have made the remarkable impact Ian Poulter has on Europe’s Ryder Cup setup. From the miracle in Medinah to the pounding in Paris, Poulter has proven to be Europe’s talisman - or ‘postman’ as he is known - time and time again. Related articles Woods and McIlroy crack jokes on Adare Manor range in Open warm-up Poulter Scottish Open ban lifted as DP World Tour boss 'disappointed' Even in the American’s demolition of Padraig Harrington’s team at Whistling Straits in 2021, Poulter still … [Read more...] about LIV Golf’s destruction more apparent than ever after Ian Poulter’s DP World Tour legal war

On a chilly autumn morning in northwest London, just outside the Euston train station, Adam Roberts stops at the top of an outdoor staircase, looks around for police, and tries to appear inconspicuous. This is harder than it sounds, and not only because he’s 6 foot 3. Roberts pulls a plastic-wrapped package from his pocket, tears it open, and slides out a long, slender tube and a swab that looks like an overgrown Q-tip. After checking again for anyone watching, he trots down the stairs, dragging the swab along the handrail, and slips the swab into the tube and the tube into his pocket. Then he strolls away. Listen to the audio version of this article: Feature stories, read aloud: download the Audm app for your iPhone. After a block, Roberts veers off busy Euston Road and down side streets toward his lab at University College London. He’s not up to anything nefarious—quite the opposite—but with closed-circuit TVs everywhere and London on high alert for terrorist threats, … [Read more...] about Hunting for Antibiotics in the World’s Dirtiest Places

In 2009, a squad of part-time England players, earning just £16,000 a year, reached the final of the European Championship. Despite being thrashed 6-2 by Germany, it was a landmark moment for the modern women’s game – and an achievement not since bettered by any other England team. By then, the Football Association was starting to take the women’s game seriously. There were central contracts for the 17 best players in the country, a dedicated support staff for those on England duty, a strength and conditioning coach, a psychologist and a data and video analyst. But still there was an overwhelming sense football was just a part-time job. Even the best players had to find work to pay the bills. “Central contracts were a huge step in the right direction, and we were very grateful for it at the time,” said Rachel Brown-Finnis, England goalkeeper in 2009. “But when you’re in a final against some of the best players in the world, it showed us in pretty stark fashion that we still had a … [Read more...] about How England’s part-time Euros trailblazers paved way for this summer’s home favourites

By Tom Jackson Published 22 December 2015 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Since off-season cucumbers were grown under "transparent stone" - an early version of the greenhouse - for the Roman Emperor Tiberius, we've been trying to bend Mother Nature to our will. We've even learned how to grow plants without soil, feeding them directly with mineral nutrients in water, often under artificial light. Hydroponics - as this is called - has always remained a niche method of food production, but now the latest technologies are giving it a new lease of life. They're even trying it in space . Could this way of growing plants help feed our rapidly growing - and increasingly urbanising - global population? From semiconductors to spinach At its Aizu Wakamatsu factory in central Japan, tech firm Fujitsu is applying cloud-based data analytics to the production of … [Read more...] about Can growing lettuces in the cloud help feed the world?

Mystery surrounds the deaths of 21 underage teenagers who died at a popular nightclub after the doors were allegedly "suddenly closed and some type of chemical agent was pumped inside". Of the 21 people who died, 17 were already dead when emergency services arrived at the Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park, a suburb on the edge of East London in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, on June 26. Victims, who ranged in age between 13 and 17, were reportedly found strewn over the tables in the night time venue, police said. READ MORE: 'One in two million' bright blue lobster caught by 'lucky' fishermen They had no visible signs of injury and had been out to celebrate the end of June school exams, local reports said. No arrests have been made and no suspects have been named in connection with the probe, according to police. "There are no new developments at this stage," Brig. Tembinkosi Kinana, a spokesperson for the South African Police Service, told ABC News yesterday … [Read more...] about ‘Doors closed and chemical agent released into the air’ killing 21 teens at bar

Pāpāmoa residents are frustrated by freedom campers overstaying in a beachside reserve carpark. The campers are taking up most of the available parking space at the Taylor Reserve carpark in Pāpāmoa East, according to resident Jayne Darby. Darby said the campers leave their belongings around which included car tyres, timber and bongs for drug smoking.Darby regularly uses the carpark when walking her dog and said on her last visit there were eight vehicles using the carpark for camping. READ MORE: Auckland Council proposes new freedom camping bylaws for region Golden Bay business owners angry at 'naive' decision to close freedom camping sites Fears of 'trailer park' at north Auckland beach as freedom camping bylaw looms One was a large bus style campervan taking up two spaces which left very little space for other people wanting to use the carpark, she said. “They took over the majority of the car park that day. It just makes it hard for everybody else,” said … [Read more...] about ‘We’re actually really nice people’: Maligned Pāpāmoa freedom campers say they’re trying to combat cost of living

Sarina Wiegman has revealed how England Euro stars Declan Rice and Kieran Trippier are attempting to give her players the inside track on succeeding in a home Euros. The Lionesses kick off their bid for European Championship success in front of a sold-out Old Trafford in their opening group game with Austria on July 6. And already, her team are being lauded as favourites to win the tournament, as their male counterparts were under Gareth Southgate last summer. That bid, of course, ended in the heartache of a penalty shoot-out defeat to Italy in the Final but two of Southgate’s squad have visited St George’s Park this week, to pass on their wisdom to Wiegman’s players . “What we wanted to do was share experiences around the home Euros and have chats,” said Wiegman. “I think sharing experiences help; what they experienced on the pitch, off the pitch. “And there was a little formal thing and then an informal thing and in the informal thing players got into chats. That … [Read more...] about England Women ready to learn from men’s team as they prepare for sold-out home Euros

With a CV that includes stints working in a bakery, an Indian restaurant and night shifts in a chippy, Bethany England is no stranger to hard graft. This summer, that teenager who was once deep-frying Creme Eggs until 5am to pay her way through college can now, at 28, add 'England striker at a major international tournament' onto that tasty career path. The Chelsea striker has been picked for July's home Euros - no great surprise after she enjoyed the highest goals-per-90-minutes ratio of any English forward in the Women's Super League last season. But it was a distant dream a decade ago when she says she was earning merely around £150 a month playing for Doncaster Rovers Belles, prior to the WSL becoming fully-professional. "I think the youth coming through these days won't realise how much people had to work to get to where they are," England said. "There was a time where I was basically paying to go to football, not football paying me. It is a reality check but it also … [Read more...] about Bethany England interview: ‘I do a good fish and chips – at Easter we would fry Creme Eggs’

The entire industry is guilty of leering at competitors. This happens especially at early-season races, like the Tour Down Under, when a rider’s physique is callously judged in whispers and sideways glances on a scale of ‘Watch out!’ to ‘That fat f--- has no chance of winning the Tour de France.’ In a feature I wrote for Procycling magazine about mental health and wellbeing in the peloton, Richie Porte illustrated what it felt like to be at the receiving end. “If you turn up to race [in Europe] a couple of kilograms over what you were in the Tour Down Under, the amount of riders that say stuff to you is...” he trailed off. “In the modern world you don’t get away with commenting on that [weight], but you have riders and staff who think it’s their right to.” Porte, who finished third overall at the 2020 Tour in what was Australia’s second-best performance on general classification in the history of the race, is resigned to it. “When you see some of the food you can’t eat, and … [Read more...] about Fat shaming and problem eating: The dark side of the Tour de France

After joining Deceuninck-Quick Step during a training camp in 2018, Danish rider Kasper Asgreen signed for the squad in April of that year before making his debut at Scheldeprijs. UCI WorldTour: The complete team-by-team guide to the season Despite making two grand tour appearances – at the Vuelta a España in 2018 and at last year's Tour de France – it was his performance at the Tour of Flanders in 2019 that put the 25-year-old on the map. On a day in which the youngsters excelled, Asgreen finished second behind the Italian Alberto Bettiol after the time-trial specialist narrowly held off the chasing pack. As Asgreen prepares to get his classics season started, which get under way at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday, the Dane outlines his goals for the 2020 season. "It will be a little bit like last year with the spring classics and then hopefully I will get selected for the Tour de France and the Olympics, and then the world championships at the end of the year," he … [Read more...] about Kasper Asgreen Q&A – the cyclists’ dozen: ‘I love the cobbles, but hate the steep climbs’