The 43-year-old brought his two-decade officiating career to an end in September after 441 top-flight matches.

Andy Farrell’s side will bid to respond against Los Pumas after last week’s deflating 23-13 defeat to New Zealand knocked them off the top of the world rankings. Here, the PA news agency picks out ...

Gregor Townsend backed Tom Jordan to keep going from strength to strength after the new Scotland recruit agreed to join Bristol next season.

A deal to hire Yutaka Nakamura, who previously worked with Maria Sharapova and Naomi Osaka, is not yet signed off.

Continuing his policy of rotating the armband throughout this campaign, O’Neill has handed the midfielder the honour following Trai Hume in September and Conor Bradley last mont ...

Michael O’Neill has insisted throughout that the Nations League is secondary on his list of priorities as he looks to mould a side to contend in next year’s World Cup qualifying campaign, but ...

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has denied multiple sex attacks on a woman and a teenage girl. On Thursday, the 49-year-old pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape, one count of ...

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Alex Samuel and Ben Muncaster are among 14 changes, with Stafford McDowell as captain and the untested Freddy Douglas among the replacements.

Shortly after 9am, a man presented himself at hospital with a stab injury, his condition was assessed as non-life threatening. No arrests have been made as police enquiries into the circumstances ...

Daniel Khalife was taken on a month-long trip to Iran to bring him “down to earth” when he was a badly behaved teenager, a court has heard. The 23-year-old, who joined the Army to escape his “very ...

Beans went missing from its home near Glasgow before turning up weeks later south of the border in the West Midlands.