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One of Britain’s major intercity train operators, Avanti West Coast, has parted company with its boss a month after the company admitted it was unable to run its timetabled services. Avanti announced that its managing director, Phil Whittingham, had decided to step down, with effect from 15 September, the date …

Nigeria’s D’Tigers have lost their opening game against Ivory Coast in the fourth window of the ongoing FIBA World Cup qualifiers.   The Nigerians were outclassed by the unbeaten Ivorians who defeated them 78-66 at Sports Treichville in Abidjan on Friday night, August 27.    With the defeat, D’Tigers stay in fourth on the table in Group …

My first memories of Föhr lie right on the edge of certainty, the images so clouded I can’t be sure what’s real and what’s been constructed from fading photographs and old stories. This much I can say for sure: I first visited the German island in 1987 as a four-year-old, …

Some walkers find coastal walks dull. Their main gripe is sameness: too blue, too green, too straight, too twee. Sometimes they say it’s not “real” enough, by which they mean they prefer the grot and slog of mud and mountains. I defy any of these people to walk from Seaton …

The news that the much-loved Coast to Coast path is finally to become an official national trail – which brings extra funding of £5.6m from Natural England – should not be surprising. For some time it has been one of England’s most popular and iconic walks. The only surprising thing …

“You’ve got your weather report and your sailing experience, but you never really know what you’re going to find until you get out there,” said Gabe, skipper of the 14-metre pilot cutter Agnes, when I asked him what we could expect. The prediction was for strong winds from the east, …

Borussia Dortmund sporting director, Sebastian Kehl has confirmed new striker Sebastien Haller has been ruled out of action for ‘a few months’ after he began treatment for a testicular tumour.   The former West Ham forward and Ivory Coast international, 28, complained about feeling unwell following training last Monday and immediate …

Despite its name, only a traveller coming from Poole will need a ferry to reach Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck, an island that’s not really an island, famous for its chalky downland, cliffs and quarries. Tucked into Purbeck’s hills, the village of Chaldon Herring, known also as East Chaldon, feels remote …

The station at Hrádek nad Nisou has seen better days. There’s a hint of former Habsburg style, but the ticket office is closed and the buffet is barred and shuttered. Breakfast must wait. Happily, I already have a ticket. A bargain ticket indeed, a rover valid for an entire month …

FIFA has suspended Ivory Coast international goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo for 18 months after he tested positive for the banned substance Trimetazidine.   The 33-year-old goalkeeper has been serving a provisional suspension after a positive test in the World Cup qualifiers, when the Ivory Coast played Cameroon in Yaounde    “On …