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England open their tournament against Wales on 7 February

Furbank has been limited to just four senior appearances for Northampton this season because of calf issues.

Three Lions returned to white-ball format after Ashes thrashing

Government says plan will help end postcode lottery in access to diagnostic tests and treatment

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

France selection for Six Nations caused a huge stir but England’s head coach has no need to spring any shocks

Sri Lanka won the first one-day international by 19 runs in Colombo.

Over Christmas, vegetables, bananas and insulation foam washed up on beaches along England’s south-east coast. They were from 16 containers spilled by the cargo ship Baltic Klipper in rough seas. In the new year, a further 24 containers fell from two vessels during Storm Goretti, with chips and onions among…

More than 4 million people will see their local elections delayed in May, in some areas for the second year running