Chris Ashton boosted his England chances with a debut hat-trick as Sale thumped Connacht 34-13 in the Challenge Cup.

It’s been a weekend for saying goodbye. Not only to the 2017/18 Premier League season — good riddance, on the whole — but also to some characters who’ve marked the competition’s last 15 years or so.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes only the brave prosper against Manchester City — which is why he has every faith in his players.

Eight tries in your first seven internationals isn’t the sort of strike rate we’ve seen all that often. Not outside New Zealand, at any rate. Jacob Stockdale, though? He’s known hot streaks like this before.

It’s 30 years since the Happy Mondays put a firecracker under British rock with tongue-twisting debut album Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).

Paul Scholes believes Manchester United should push to beat their title rivals away from home to give themselves a psychological advantage.

A man has been attacked with axes in a UK public park popular with children and families.

A UK hospital has admitted negligence after staff mistakenly monitored a mother's heart rate instead of her baby's.

Four prospects for the World Cup qualifiers...

IF sport can be a barometer of national well-being then these are indeed golden, halcyon days. 

Three 12-year-old girls are in a serious condition in hospital in England after taking ecstasy pills, police have said.

Premier League-winning footballer Danny Simpson will miss part of his team's historic title-winning celebrations and end of season bash after a judge ordered he must serve a curfew immediately for throttling his ex-girlfriend.

Dervla Murphy (Viewpoints, 30 April) writes that “Livingstone may not be everyone’s pin-up boy but he does know his history” and quotes various facts about negotiations between the Nazis and the German Zionist organisation in 1933.

A child was hurt in a violent bust-up in the East Stand at Old Trafford between a small number of home and away supporters at a Europa League match between Manchester United and Liverpool.

Tony Warren was just 24 when he devised Coronation Street, one of the most beloved shows in British television history and the world’s longest-running soap.

Sunderland 2 Man Utd 1: John O’Shea didn’t need to give an answer, the question he was posed said it all about United’s continuing woes.

To bee or not to bee.. the question is whether mankind can continue to exist without them.

Santa Claus may need to pick up some tips from Batman and Superman after receiving a request to help the police catch bad guys.

Five Britons including a father and his teenage son who died when a whale-watching boat sank off the coast of Canada have been named.

As a child growing up in Salford near Manchester I had no aspirations to sing or to be on stage.

They are two of the most controversial candidates in the British election and, by chance, they both tipped up in a run-down corner of Kent to canvass yesterday.

A general practitioner in Salford, Manchester, has been told he must not diagnose children with so-called ‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’, (ADHD) and must refer them to a qualified consultant instead. He was allegedly ‘treating’ children against NHS guidelines.

A general practitioner in Salford, Manchester, has been told he must not diagnose children with so-called ‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’, (ADHD) and must refer them to a qualified consultant instead. He was allegedly ‘treating’ children against NHS guidelines.

May I support John O Donoghue’s position (Same-sex marriage runs counter to traditional institution of marriage, April 13) that “to talk of marriage in a situation where the necessary constituents are manifestly absent is to insult that institution”.

As he joins a stellar cast in Fortitude, Christopher Eccleston tells Kate Samuelson why he loved working on the new drama series

Looking for plans for the weekend? Here’s a list of what’s on and where.

One of Britain’s most senior police officers attacked retailers after ‘Black Friday’ promotions sparked chaos and violence in stores around the country.

Stars including One Direction and Rita Ora have joined forces to record a new Band Aid song.

Check out our guide to the best shows and films on TV tonight.

A woman reporting her grandchildren for not doing their homework and the theft of a garden gnome were among emergency calls received within 24 hours by one of the UK’s largest police forces.

A woman reporting her grandchildren for not doing their homework and the theft of a garden gnome were among emergency calls received within 24 hours by one of the UK’s largest police forces.

With five Heineken Cup successes over a magical seven-year period between 2006 and 2012, European rugby had become a happy hunting ground for the Irish, writes Donal Lenihan.

Millionaire Jimmy Savile was given a council flat after his “ramshackle” property in Salford was demolished, a rape trial heard today.

A video apparently showing the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning has been released on the internet.

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West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison threatened to throw acid in the face of his ex-girlfriend and have her killed, a court heard.

Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and the Neville brothers rolled back the years tonight as they lined up together in a ’Class of 92 and friends’ XI for a friendly against Salford City, the non-league outfit they bought between them this year.