These are your evening rugby news on Wednesday, April 24. Former Wales international dies Former Wales and British & Irish Lions sponsor John O’Shea has died aged 83. O’Shea, who also captained Cardiff, died in Australia after a long illness. He won five caps for Wales in the 1960s, after making his international debut against … Read more
Issy McDermott often went on holiday to drink: she taught school, partied around Central America, Europe and Asia, and “worked in a party hostel in Indonesia where I drank every day for a whole month”. But in the past year she has experienced a change. The 23-year-old Sydneysider, who also leads group tours with Plotpackers, … Read more
England’s first world champions in 1994 were self-funded and triumphed in chaos in Edinburgh Within seconds of their faces coming into view, Karen Almond tells Katy Daley-Mclean, “My dad sent me articles about you. He always said we were quite similar – ‘Ooh, that number 10 who plays for England just like you…’” This is … Read more
What is the largest comedy festival in the world? Parochial Brits would say Edinburgh. Internationalists might consider Montreal’s Just for Laughs. They would all be wrong. Just for Laughs is out of the running: it filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year because its future is in doubt. And the outskirts of Edinburgh is not … Read more