• Semi-final: Leinster 29-25 Toulon

• Leinster will face Bordeaux or Bath in Bilbao final

They made a bit of a meal of it, but Leinster will march on Bilbao in a few weeks for their ninth Champions Cup final. Given that was where they last won this thing, in 2018, for the fourth time, they might consider the omen positive, but this semi-final, their 17th, was not a classic.

Which is not to say it was boring. Leinster are not convincing this season, and one telltale sign of a team with a confidence issue is the offering up of hope to a seemingly defeated opponent. The hosts, enjoying a knockout tie at the Aviva for the umpteenth time, went 18 points clear when Caelan Doris scored their fourth with a little more than 10 minutes to play. And then all hell broke loose.

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Compliments mean little to West Ham at this stage of the season. They need points more than a patronising pat on the head for playing quite well in a defeat. Positives? West Ham hit the woodwork three times, created a host of chances and contributed to an entertaining game. Negatives? Well, all of that would have been fine if they were coasting in mid-table, but given West Ham’s perilous position the overriding sense was this was a costly afternoon in their battle to stay up.

The frustration lay in blowing an opportunity to make 18th-placed Tottenham squirm before facing Aston Villa on Sunday evening. The gap remains at two points when it could have been five.

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Brighton had limbered up for this trip to Tyneside by working out with an acclaimed German cage fighter. The idea was that a spot of mixed martial arts training would toughen up their players at set pieces and enable them to pack a collective punch far too powerful for Newcastle to resist.

Happily for the home side it did not quite work out like that. With Yasir al-Rumayyan, Newcastle’s chair, and a delegation of his colleagues from the club’s majority owners, Saudi Arabian’s Public Investment Fund, in the director’s box, Newcastle ended a debilitating run of five straight defeats.

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️ Norris takes Miami sprint pole | Mail Philip

Button, who has a world title, confident that George Russell will be competitive come main qualifying as the Mercedes driver pursues a championship of his own.

The heat is on in Miami. Drivers kept as cool as they can be by umbrellas as the cars receive their last touches. Jenson Button probably quite happy to not be wearing a race suit.

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WENEN (ANP/DPA) - In Oostenrijk is een verdachte opgepakt in de zaak rond de poging tot afpersing van fabrikant HiPP. De afgelopen tijd werden gemanipuleerde potjes babyvoeding van het merk gevonden waaraan rattengif was toegevoegd.

De persoon achter de afpersing eiste 2 miljoen euro van de Duitse babyvoedingsproducent. De aangehouden verdachte is een man van 39 jaar, meldt het Openbaar Ministerie in Eisenstadt.

Vijf potjes werden gevonden in Oostenrijk, Tsjechië en Slowakije. Dat gebeurde nog voordat ze werden geconsumeerd. Het is niet duidelijk wat het effect was geweest als kinderen de voeding wel hadden opgegeten. Er wordt in Oostenrijk nog gezocht naar een zesde potje.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on slide May 1989

Het is een passende slogan die is bedacht voor de nieuwe woontoren in het oosten van Rotterdam: “Op eigen houtje gaan”. Het appartementencomplex wordt namelijk speciaal voor starters gebouwd, met prijzen die ruim twee ton onder de gemiddelde Rotterdamse koopsom liggen. En op eigen ‘houtje’ gaan die starters zeker: het complex wordt grotendeels gebouwd met duurzaam hout.

Fred Marquer has added a photo to the pool:

Kyoto, Japan

Fred Marquer has added a photo to the pool:

Kyoto, Japan