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    England were wrongly awarded an extra run in their Cricket World Cup final victory over New Zealand, according to a former international umpire, on their way to a dramatic super-over win at Lord’s. In the final over of regular play, Ben Stokes inadvertently deflected the ball off his bat to the boundary rope as he dived to reach the crease, turning what would have been two runs into six and playing a crucial role in equalling New Zealand’s total to force a super-over. But the well-renowned former international umpire Simon Taufel says the on-field umpires made a “clear mistake” in awarding England six runs, rather than the correct figure of five, as the batsmen had not yet crossed when the ball was thrown. It also meant that England’s best batsman, Stokes, retained ...

    Queen Elizabeth has travelled all over the globe during her reign. She is now the UK’s best-travelled monarch and has dined in some of the most exotic corners of the Earth, The monarch has visited numerous world leaders, and sampled countless different countries culinary specialities. Many people may wonder what the Queen likes to eat - and whether her favourite fare is taken into account on menus abroad. However, a royal insider has revealed that there’s one piece of information the Queen will never share,  writes the Express . Queen Elizabeth has never divulged what her favourite food is - and for a very clever reason. The monarch fears that if she reveals her meal of choice, those hosting her will serve nothing else when she visits. Gordon Rayner, former roya...

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said there were many, many, inaccuracies in the BBC Panorama documentary about anti-Semitism in the party. Mr Corbyn said the programme adopted a pre-determined position before it was aired earlier this week. Speaking during a visit to the Durham Miners' Gala, Mr Corbyn said: I watched the programme and I felt there were many, many inaccuracies in the programme. The programme adopted a pre-determined position on its own website before it was broadcast. We've made very clear what our processes are. Our party members do have the right to be heard if they're accused of anything and our party staff have a right to be supported and they are supported. Mr Corbyn said anyone in the party who commits any act of anti-Semitism faces withdraw...

    Foreign Secretary and Conservative Leadership Candidate Jeremy Hunt has hit out at President Trump, calling him "disrespectful" towards the Prime Minister and the UK. Tweeting, Mr Hunt said: "@realDonaldTrump friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our Prime Minister and my country. "Your diplomats give their private opinions to @SecPompeo and so do ours! You said the UK/US alliance was the greatest in history and I agree..." He added: "But allies need to treat each other with respect as @theresa_may has always done with you. "Ambassadors are appointed by the UK government and if I become PM our Ambassador stays." It comes as Mr Trump called Sir Darroch, the UK's US ambassador "wacky" and a "pompous fool" on social media on ...

    A government insider has accused Downing Street of allowing the creation of elephant traps for the next prime minister on Brexit. The accusation came as MPs prepared to vote on an amendment tabled by former attorney general Dominic Grieve which would effectively block Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson from suspending parliament to force a no-deal Brexit through. The insider said that No 10 could have stopped the vote - along with a failed cross-party attempt last month to seize control of the parliamentary agenda in order to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement on 31 October if its focus was fully on giving Theresa May’s successor the best chance of delivering Brexit. This would effectively force the Commons to be sitting in the run-...

    Theresa May has expressed “full faith” in her ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, but rejected his description of Donald Trump as inept and insecure, as she launched an inquiry into the leak of his diplomatic memos. The prime minister’s spokesman said it was Darroch’s job to provide an honest and unvarnished view of the US administration but she did not necessarily have to agree with everything he had written. No 10 is scrambling to find the leaker after two years of memos emerged in the Mail on Sunday, causing Donald Trump to condemn Darroch as someone who has not served the UK well. With US-UK relations damaged by the embarrassment, British officials have apologised to the US for the leak but not the content of the memos. Contact has been made with the Trump admi...

    Police have warned motorists to be on the look out for fake traffic wardens, who have been issuing bogus tickets to steal driver's bank details. Action Fraud said it has received 33 reports since January of victims being targeted by criminals dressing up as police officers and traffic wardens then issuing tickets. The victims, a number of these who are been elderly and vulnerable, are approached while still in their car or at a car park and told they have parked illegally or broken a speed limit. The fraudster adds that a photo has been taken of their car for evidence. The good news is they can avoid a bigger fine if they pay a smaller fee now Drivers are then directed to a parking metre and told to enter their card and PIN. But instead of paying a fine, the card...

    The crisis in policing is down to Theresa May's "disastrous" tenure as Home Secretary and Prime Minister, the former head of Scotland Yard has said, as senior officers demanded wide scale reforms across the service. In a stinging attack on her record in office, Lord Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police between 2000 and 2004, said he hoped her departure from Number 10 would mark the end of a dark period in policing. Lord Stevens said the relationship between the government and the police service was at an all time low and suggested Mrs May's policies were directly to blame for the rise in violent crime. He is one of five former Met Commissioners who have urged the Prime Minister’s successor to put law and order at the heart of the new administration,...

    Boris Johnson is set to storm into Downing Street with a landslide victory this month, a poll of Conservative Party members has revealed. Mr Johnson is backed to become the next party leader by 74 per cent of members, with Jeremy Hunt on 26 per cent, according to a poll taken by YouGov and The Times. It comes as Tories began receiving ballot papers to cast their votes in the leadership race, which will lead to the naming of a new Prime Minister on July 23. Mr Hunt has urged party members to delay their votes until after two televised events next week, which will start with Tuesday’s head-to-head debate aired on ITV. “The big message I want to give to Conservative Party members is wait to see me and Boris in action on the TV debates. Try before you buy,” he said in...

    Britain’s motorways have never felt particularly life-affirming, but they could become even more soulless under proposals to bury the dead alongside major roads to free up room in cemeteries. Around 20 per cent of people are now buried, with the majority of people now cremated. Professor John Ashton, former president of the Faculty of Public Health, has called for green burial corridors next to roads, railways and country footpaths. British graveyards are close to capacity, and with 500,000 deaths in England and Wales each year, it is estimated there will be no more plots left within five years. To combat the squeeze, Prof Ashton has proposed the creation of rustic cemeteries, similar to those proposed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1711, where corpses would be buried...