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Yes, we know the team is struggling, but the Principality Stadium looks incredible!

If you are a rugby fan and you’ve not visited this cathedral, get your accountant on the line and book yourself a trip.

I am not a confident Welsh fan. There are so many issues at the moment, it’s hard to know where to start. The WRU is spectacularly badly run. We were fortunate to have a couple of generations of genuinely World Class players between the mid 00’s and 2020ish, and considering the resources available, population, player base etc, that was always likely to drop off at some point. But I don’t think anyone expected the drop-off to be quite so drastic. We kept being told that it was a young side who would gained experience and improve. But that’s been a stuck record for 4 years or so. There’s no identity to the team. When you watch them, you often cant see what they’re trying to achieve. The basics, the flipping basics(!), are repeatedly falling apart. The first quarter against England was as bad a spell of international rugby as you’re ever likely to see. I don’t know where to go from here. It’s hideous.

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• Bundesliga leaders go nine clear at top with 3-2 win

• Fàbregas’s side round off damaging week for Juve

Harry Kane scored twice as Bayern Munich beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2 in the Bundesliga on Saturday to move nine points clear of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table.

Bayern took the lead in the 16th minute when Aleksandar Pavlovic volleyed in from the edge of the box and Kane made it 2-0 four minutes later, ghosting inside a crowded box to head home from a Michael Olise corner. The England captain struck again in the 68th minute, punishing a defensive error before curling a shot inside the left post for his 28th league goal of the season.

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Jamison Gibson-Park led the way for the victors with his kicking and creativity while George Ford’s lack of accuracy was costly

Freddie Steward Showed the type of inaccuracy that will infuriate Steve Borthwick more than once and made little or no impact in attack. 5

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West Ham: Hermansen, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Disasi, Diouf, Fernandes, Magassa, Bowen, Soucek, Summerville, Castellanos

Subs: Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Wilson, Traoré, Todibo, Scarles, Kanté, Mayers

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President announced increase from 10% using different authority from mechanism that supreme court struck down on Friday

Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would raise a temporary tariff rate on US imports from all countries from 10% to 15%, less than 24 hours after the US supreme court ruled against the legality of his flagship trade policy.

Infuriated by the high court’s ruling on Friday that he had exceeded his authority and should have gotten congressional approval for the tariffs, the US president railed against the justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling them a “disgrace to the nation”, and ordered an immediate 10% tariff on all imports, in addition to any existing levies.

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Exclusive: Irish author, who feared her books being withdrawn from UK, says proscription had been ‘extreme assault’ on rights and freedoms

Sally Rooney has hailed the high court’s decision that it was unlawful to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws as a victory for civil liberties in Britain.

Ministers suffered a humiliating legal defeat a week ago when three senior judges ruled that proscription of the direct action group, which targets organisations it considers complicit in arming Israel, was disproportionate and unlawful.

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"Smiling" fossil discovered in Northumberland. The unusual-looking fossil is estimated to be about 350 million years old.

Marijke Groenewoud heeft goud gewonnen bij de massastart. Dat had ze niet kunnen doen zonder de hulp van Bente Kerkhoff, die zich de hele wedstrijd opofferde voor haar landgenote.

MILAAN (ANP) - Nederland is op de voorlaatste dag van de Winterspelen in Milaan naar de derde plaats in het medailleklassement gestegen. Dat was te danken aan langebaanschaatsers Jorrit Bergsma en Marijke Groenewoud, die beiden de massastart wonnen.

Nederland heeft nu tien gouden medailles, zeven zilveren en drie bronzen. Gastland Italië won ook tien onderdelen, maar zakt naar de voorlopig vierde plaats met zes keer zilver.

Noorwegen leidt het klassement met achttien keer goud, voor de Verenigde Staten met elf keer goud.