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‘Fitting farewell’ for Philip
The Duke of Edinburgh was laid to rest following a funeral at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle yesterday. The Dean of Windsor paid tribute to Prince Philip’s “kindness, humour and humanity” during the service. The BBC reported that the Queen was “alone but for the gaze of the world” while the Mail On Sunday says “it was a fitting farewell, ma’am”. The Sunday Times says the royal family “mixed protocols with precaution”.
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Salisbury duo linked to explosion
The two Russian men suspected of carrying out the Salisbury poisoning in 2018 are being linked to an explosion at an arms depot in the Czech Republic four years earlier. Czech police issued photos of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who they say were in the country at the time of the blast. The names match those used by the two men accused of poisoning Sergei Skripal.
Higgins, O Sullivan and Murphy: still going strong
Tennis has Roger Federer and Serena Williams, football Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and American football Tom Brady. But for ageing talent defying their years, there is no rival to snooker.
Attempting to predict the winner of the World Championship, which began in Sheffield on Saturday, is not only an almost identical task to a decade ago but, remarkably, not too dissimilar from the turn of the century.
Ronnie O’Sullivan, who won the sport’s showpiece tournament in 2001, is No 1 seed for the event, with John Higgins, the man he beat 20 years ago, ranked No 5. Former world champions Neil Robertson, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby, as well as Stephen Maguire and Barry Hawkins, were also present in 2001 and are still among the game’s top 12 players. Right now, snooker truly is no sport for young men.
As a woman whose entire life has embodied public service, the Queen would never have considered any tweaking of the Covid restrictions, even for the funeral of her husband of 73 years.
So on Saturday she sat masked and socially isolated in St George s Chapel looking both bereft and stoical, though most strikingly of all I thought, utterly alone.
The worst part is that this was wholly unnecessary.
There was no scientific basis for so few members of her family to be there, dotted along the vast empty pews; nor for them having to wear masks at this important moment in our history, the death of the longest serving royal consort.
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Top story: ‘Walk away before irreparable damage is done’
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Football has been thrown into turmoil after plans were confirmed last night for the European Super League, with six English clubs – Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham – joining the breakaway competition alongside three each from Italy and Spain. Boris Johnson and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, condemned proposals that were met with widespread criticism from around the continent. Organisers have announced they want to begin the competition in August.
The plan threatens not only the future of the Champions League but could have a seismic impact on the entire structure of the club game. In England the Premier League urged clubs “to walk away immediately before irreparable damage is done”. The former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville reacted furi