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Zhang Anda won a tense deciding frame on the black to beat Zhou Yuelong and reach the World Grand Prix final in Hong Kong.Zhang came out on top in the first of two all-Chinese semi-finals, winning a scrappy final frame to beat Zhou 6-5. He will play either world champion Zhao Xintong or Xiao Guodong in Sunday’s final.World number 23 Zhang had to battle hard to make it past his less experienced countryman to reach his fourth ranking final. Zhou, who beat England’s Ali Carter in a decider to reach the last four, was well placed to win the final…

British Transport Police are investigating after three men were stabbed at a Surrey railway station, it has been confirmed.The men are believed to have suffered the knife injuries following a fight at Egham train station.Officers were called to the scene at around 9pm on Friday, February 6, to reports of a number of people with stab injuries.Surrey Police and paramedics rushed to the scene to find four people injured.Two 20-year-old men had suffered stab injuries while a third, aged 22, had a slash injury to his face.A fourth victim, an 18-year-old, had also been assaulted.They have all been taken to…

Keir Starmer was “too slow” to address the Lord Mandelson scandal and Labour “must clean up or pay a heavy price”, Gordon Brown has warned. The former Prime Minister’s rare intervention comes as the peer was placed under investigation for his links to the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Among the accusations are that Lord Mandelson leaked market-sensitive No10 documents to Epstein during the 2008 financial crisis, while serving as Buisness Secretary in Mr Brown’s cabinet. On Friday night, police raided Lord Mandelson’s homes in Camden and Wiltshire as part of an inquiry into alleged misconduct in public office. Mr…

London and the South-East now shoulder 45 per cent of Britain’s total income tax burden, contributing £240.7billion of receipts nationally, it has been revealed.One of the most notable findings shows the London borough of Wandsworth alone paid £4.26billion in income tax during the 2022-2023 tax year.This single borough contributed more than the combined total of Leeds and Birmingham – two of Britain’s largest cities – which together paid £4.23billion.Accountancy firm HY Hacker Young ’s research highlights major regional differences in how income tax contributions are distributed across the UK.London on its own now accounts for 26.5 per cent of all…

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Two-time Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has had surgery on an Achilles injury in the United States but has said “it’s not as bad as it seems”. In worst-case scenarios, recovery time from an Achilles operation can take up to 10 months, but the 25-year-old Norwegian said on his YouTube channel, external that he was looking at a rehabilitation plan for the “next couple of months”.Ingebrigtsen said he first injured his left Achilles last April, but was determined to compete at the World Championships in September, where he failed to win a medal.The injury flared up again in January and he…

Jeffrey Epstein emailed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s aide, David Stern, about a “beautiful friend” that the former Duke of York “might want to have for a dinner”.The email is part of more than three million documents released by the US Department of Justice, with the former prince appearing to be mentioned and pictured numerous times.Nearly three years after Andrew claimed to have cut ties with the paedophile, Epstein allegedly wrote in October 2013 to the former duke’s aide: “I have a very beautiful friend coming to London on tues. Andrew might want to have her for a dinner.”Emails appear to show Mr…

Government employees recorded just a 0.1 per cent productivity improvement in the third quarter of 2025 compared with the same period a year earlier, despite strong wage growth across the public sector.The marginal increase comes as public sector pay has risen sharply, with average regular earnings climbing 7.9 per cent over the past 12 months, representing the fastest rate since records began, data from the Office for National Statistics shows (ONS).The public sector workforce has also expanded since Labour took office following the 2024 general election, with headcount increasing by 88,000 staff.Official data highlights the relationship between increased staffing levels,…

Crucially, given well-documented off-field uncertainty, man management has been a big feature to the start of the Tandy era.The national coaches are frequent visitors at all four regions and made a point of contacting those who narrowly missed out on selection.Those who have made the cut frequently talk about “connection”.”I haven’t really felt it as much as I have coming into this campaign, how tight the boys are, how connected the boys are,” said flanker Josh Macleod, who missed the autumn series through injury.”Man for man we’re ready to stand up for each other and fight. It’s purely down to…

Former Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has died at the age of 72 from cancer, her family have announced in a statement.Ms Freeman began as a nurse, justice campaigner and civil servant, before entering politics and rising to the rank of cabinet secretary for health and sport from 2018 to 2021. She was also the Scottish National Party’s MSP for the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency from 2016 to 2021.In a statement, her partner Susan Stewart said: “Jeane was given an unexpected diagnosis of incurable cancer on the 13th of January and we only had 25 days thereafter. Days…