All news for 2023-02-17

Tom Blundell scored an excellent hundred for New Zealand on day two in Mount Maunganui, while James Anderson and Stuart Broad became just the second pairing in history to take 1,000 Test wickets in games together

Austin Butler went to extreme lengths for his role as Elvis Presley in the biopic of the rock 'n' roll legend, which included piling on the pounds by drinking Haagen-Dazs ice cream

Sir Jake Berry suggested interventions by former Prime Ministers should be "like sex in a long and happy relationship - infrequent but always anticipated with glee"

Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper have secretly housed a family of refugees fleeing Ukraine, the former Labour Party politician revealed on today's edition of Good Morning Britain

Referee John Brooks has been appointed as the fourth official for Arsenal’s meeting with Aston Villa this weekend despite last weekend’s embarrassing error but was not totally to blame

Death in Paradise will air the second episode of a two part story, as Neville Parker finds himself imprisoned over a murder he says he didn't commit

Newcastle, who face Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool on Saturday evening, were sold by Mike Ashley to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund for £305million in October 2021

Ten-month-old Sara Moosa was in the tub with her two brothers when a plastic toy got stuck in the plughole, causing the bath to fill and drown her in just five inches of water, an inquest in Leicester has heard

Lionel Messi left Barcelona in the summer of 2021 and fans of the Spanish club have longed for the Argentina international to make an emotional return to the Camp Nou

A new documentary is set to go behind the scenes as Ant & Dec film Saturday Night Takeaway, with "unprecedented" backstage access, and the hosts teasing "lots of drama"

This is up massively compared with an underlying profit loss of £21million in 2021, due to the rising cost of energy - but the French company made huge losses as a whole

Chelsea are struggling for goals and after blanking in the Champions League in Dortmund in mid-week, surely it is time for Graham Potter to turn to the veteran striker who has made a career out of hitting the back of the net when his side face Southampton this weekend

Two miners have been found dead in Queensland, Australia, following an overnight search and rescue effort, after they plunged down an 82ft hole when the ground suddenly opened up beneath them

Jesse Brown, aged 11, died from fa lesh eating bacteria, having picked up a Strep A infection after spraining his ankle. Tributes have poured in for the youngster in Orange County, Florida

Friday sees the Man Utd takeover process reach the 'soft deadline' which had been imposed by the Glazers, who are seeking to sell the club in what will be one of sport's most lucrative deals

Arsenal have moved on considerably since Unai Emery's departure but the Spaniard will be remembered for the controversial way he handled the club captaincy during his spell in charge

Love Island's Zara Deniz Lackenby-Brown has broken her silence after fellow bombshell Jordan claimed he was seeing his fellow Islander, despite the fact they never met in the villa

VAR has been under the spotlight in recent weeks for a number of shocking errors in the Premier League and former referee Mark Clattenburg has given a controversial view on its place in the top-flight

Dani Dyer took to Instagram to show off her growing baby bump as she prepares to welcome her twins with footballer boyfriend Jarrod Bowen

A 30-foot static caravan has been dumped for more than a month in the middle of a road, blocking access and causing the anger of locals with nobody claiming it

Christian Donnelly, who owned Acute Barbers in Cardiff University student union, fired Celine Thorley for "phoning in sick on Mondays" but he has now been told to pay nearly £3,500 by a tribunal

Craig Mackintosh, a 48-year-old landscape gardener, was killed by troops while out on patrol when his squad was ambushed in Russian territory, near the city of Kharkiv

James Dee, from Pontefract in the UK, joined the Ukrainian army in April 2022 and said he remembers going towards the back of the tree line and seeing the five Russian prisoners

The man who refereed the Champions League Final in 2016 and that year's European Championship Final believes current deterrents for time-wasting simply don't do enough - and has an idea of how to change it

Arsenal travel to face Aston Villa on Saturday where they will come head-to-head with former manager Unai Emery, who helped kick-start the career of three young stars