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“I hate guitar jams because they usually get competitive. You have to breathe, be true to yourself and think, ‘This has to be music’”: Folk icon Richard Thompson on tuning revelations, keeping his chops up, and why you won't find him in a guitar jam

We meet Thompson to find out how he’s preparing to go head-to-head with Tommy Emmanuel, chat about the end of his touring days, and talk about how fresh tunings yield fresh ideas

Guitar World

These are the UK areas where a new hosepipe ban is predicted by September

Three water companies have announced hosepipe bans following a record dry spring

The Independent UK

Up to five more regions could face drought this year, Environment Agency says

Modelling shows drought conditions could spread to the Midlands and central southern regions under the watchdog’s reasonable worst case scenario.

Evening Standard

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“I’m finding that new gear can actually sound really good, and that old gear can be really overrated”: Why folk legend Richard Thompson is embracing new guitar gear – but drawing the line at digital

Thompson may be impressed with modern guitar gear, but he’s explained why he doesn’t like digital amp simulations

Guitar World

No sanction for doctor found guilty of misconduct in Martha’s rule case

Tribunal says consultant’s failings in treatment of Martha Mills ‘single lapse of judgment in an otherwise exemplary career’

The Guardian - UK

No disciplinary sanction for doctor’s ‘grave’ failures in care of Martha Mills

Professor Richard Thompson did not refer the 13-year-old to intensive care despite her displaying several high-risk indicators of sepsis.

Evening Standard

Senior doctor’s failures in teenager’s care at London hospital ‘amounted to gross negligence’

A medical tribunal found that Professor Richard Thompson’s failures in the care of Martha Mills were ‘particularly grave’

Evening Standard

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Senior doctor’s failures in teenager’s care ‘amounted to gross negligence’

A medical tribunal found that Professor Richard Thompson’s failures were ‘particularly grave’.

The Independent UK

Doctor guilty of misconduct over case of girl, 13, whose death led to Martha’s rule

Panel found Prof Richard Thompson failed to escalate Martha Mills’s treatment to intensive care or to review her condition directly in person

The Guardian - UK

Consultant should have referred teenager to intensive care, tribunal rules

Martha Mills, 13, died in the early hours of August 31 2021.

The Independent UK

Doctor ‘doubted judgment’ after death of teenager Martha Mills from sepsis

Professor Richard Thompson denies all the allegations against him.

The Independent UK

Senior doctor accused of failures in case that gave rise to Martha’s rule

Prof Richard Thompson accused of wrongly failing to escalate care of Martha Mills, 13, before she died of sepsis

The Guardian - UK

“We are open to just about anything... I am all for writing anything that sounds like a cavalcade of horses!” Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec are crafting an epic journey, one riff at a time, as Pelican's original lineup takes flight again

Flickering Resonance is the first Pelican album since the return of Schroeder-Lebec, and it finds the Chicago post-metal institution's sound on an evolutionary path to destinations unknown

MusicRadar

Fairport Convention and The Stranglers is one of the more unlikely collaborations you'll hear this year!

Hugh Cornwell hooks up with members of Fairport Convention for a charity single cover of Tobacco Road

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“I thought, ‘This is boring. I play these songs all the time! Where’s the audience to cheer me up?’” Richard Thompson’s battle against barking dogs, overhead planes and leaf blowers to make Acoustic Classics

Richard Thompson thought 2014 solo album Acoustic Classics would just be a nice product for his merch stall – until he’d got over his reluctance to make it

The Independent UK

ECB: Near £1bn from Hundred auction will protect cricket for generations to come

Investors from around the world have poured lavish sums into the game in return for stakes in eight city-based teams.

The Guardian - UK

England will not boycott Afghanistan game despite Taliban ‘gender apartheid’

ECB chair Richard Thompson condemned ‘oppression of women and girls’ in Afghanistan but insisted a ‘unilateral boycott’ was not the right policy

Evening Standard

England to face Afghanistan in Champions Trophy despite calls for boycott

More than 160 MPs and peers had called for a boycott in response to the Taliban’s actions since returning to power

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The Independent UK

England make decision on Afghanistan clash at Champions Trophy after calls for boycott

The ECB have confirmed that the tournament fixture will go ahead despite calls for England to boycott over the Taliban’s treatment of women

The Times of India

Two-tier Test format likely before India's tour of England: Report

NEW DELHI: The present format will be discontinued after Australia plays South Africa in the World Test Championship final. It will be reintroduced as a two-tier system prior to India's trip of England later this summer.

Louder

“Lionisation is too late when you’re dead… I’ve often thought of faking my own death and watching the record companies drum up all the stuff they can”: A fight, a show then a drink with John Martyn

All the evidence you need to be convinced the hard-living singer-songwriter was as progressive as they come

Louder

“How dense was I, singing those songs and not realising those things were happening to me?” Linda Thompson on struggling to sing, struggling to perform live and why her kids aren’t her greatest achievement

The folk icon – who never planned on being one – recalls hilarious haircuts, playing musical bedrooms, boxing clever with label execs and becoming a heavy metal fan

The Guardian - UK

ECB warns it will not be ‘bounced’ into selling all Hundred cricket franchises

The ECB may not sell all Hundred franchises over the next year and is prepared to take some of them off the market if any offers fall short of their full value

The Times of India

'Not in cricket's interests for India to miss Champions Trophy': ECB chiefs

The senior leadership of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has acknowledged that the need to "protect broadcast rights" means there will be no changes to the participating teams for next year's Champions Trophy, regardless of whether India chooses to travel to Pakistan.

Louder

Richard Thompson replaces Trevor Horn at Cropredy Festival

This year's Corpredy Festival takes place in Cropredy, near Banbury, from August 8 -10

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