The World Snooker Championships in Sheffield has just seen ‘one of the great Crucible 147s’ and the first of 2025.

When war broke out in 1914, thousands of coal miners swapped shovels for rifles, believing life in the trenches might be easier than life underground. It wasn’t.

Two teenagers who stabbed a man playing football in a Rotherham park have each been sentenced to over three years in a Young Offenders Institution.