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The country’s top teams will contest the one-off final, starting at Lord’s on Wednesday, to decide the Championship winners The Bob Willis Trophy final, to be contested at Lord’s starting on Wednesday, has been given extra validity by the presence of Essex and Somerset. Jason Kerr, Somerset’s first-team coach, sums the situation up neatly: “The […]
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A hearty and nourishing veggie treat The recipeCoarsely grate 250g of courgettes into a sieve, sprinkle with salt and leave for 20 minutes. Remove the leaves from a 400g head of sweetcorn. Slice off the corn with a sharp knife then add them to a pan of boiling, lightly salted water. Let them cook for […]
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DETROIT – General Motors Co GM.N and Germany’s Bosch said on Monday they were sticking to their alliances with Nikola Corp NKLA.O after the executive chairman of the electric and fuel cell truck startup stepped down amid allegations of fraud. Nikola founder Trevor Milton, whose company become a darling of the stock market over the […]
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Cowboy 2 and 3 e-bikes will automatically alert emergency contacts with the rider’s exact location Owners of older Cowboy 2 and brand-new Cowboy 3 e-bikes will receive a free software update that adds crash detection by the end of September. It’s an industry-first safety feature, according to the Belgian startup that recently took in €23 […]
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Demands for equity and equality are portrayed as threatening and dangerous President Donald Trump has developed a harsh vocabulary list for those involved in the Black Lives Matter protests, calling those in the streets everything from “terrorists” and “anarchists” to “thugs.” Since the protests erupted in the wake of the death of George Floyd on […]
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Sussex, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire secured their places in the last eight of the T20 Blast this week Ball one: breaking newsThis column does not do news, but if you haven’t tracked down the T20 Blast’s quarter-finals to be played on Thursday 1 October, here they are: Notts Outlaws v Leicestershire FoxesSurrey v Kent SpitfiresGloucestershire v […]
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There is a chapter in Bill Buford’s book Dirt – his hugely entertaining account of a five-year journey into the earthy, primal food culture of Lyon – in which he persuades local farmers that he should help in the killing of a pig. The blood from the animal will be used to make the pungent […]
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Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat Inc BYND.O said on Monday it would start selling its frozen breakfast sausage patties at 5,000 more stores in the United States, including at Kroger KR.N, Walmart WMT.N and Publix, by the end of September. The California-based company, which derives about half of its global sales from restaurants, has had […]
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It plans to rein in how much water its data centers guzzle up Microsoft plans to address dwindling water resources in its latest environmental pledge. Microsoft made a new commitment to replenish even more water than it uses for its global operations by 2030, making the company “water positive.” For now, the commitment is more […]
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Anecdotal accounts suggest mail theft is on the rise in parts of the country. Postal inspectors don’t have a reliable internal system to track the crime. One day in January, a pair of thieves in black ski masks drove into a restricted area behind a post office in Phoenix. They jumped out of their car, […]
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