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Starbucks UK sales increase but appears to pay no corporation tax. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions to low tax jurisdictions - royalty payments, cost sharing agreements, support fees, interest on intragroup loans. Company accounts opaque. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

One of the best parts of following and learning cricket in the late seventies and eighties were ads like these. We had very few good cricket coaching books, and those that existed most were expensive - Bradman's The Art of Cricket was priced at Rs 60 and Lillee's Art of Fast Bowling at Rs 20, and even the basic MCC Coaching Book set us back by Rs 15. This at a time when a cinema ticket cost Rs 3, a Sportstar was available for Rs 2, and you were lucky if your pocket money for the month went beyond Rs 10 - heck, you were lucky if you HAD pocket money. Videos were rare and non-existent, and coaches were limited and impatient. We even got very few slow motion replays on television - DD in India mostly had normal motion action replays with a 'R' flashing in the top right corner. We used to collect ads like this one, and tiny comic strips that used to come telling us about the sport, because they were so handy and helped us understand and play the game better. In many cases, we scoured foreign magazines for these as they seemed to have more. It was not unusual for friends to put together clippings from different magazines to make one badly arranged, disproportionately pasted scrapbook. They would make people laugh today, but in those days, they were worth their weight in gold. When Xerox machines became available, we began making copies of them and sharing them around - kids whose parents worked in offices with these machines were VIPs, very important photocopiers!! Cricketers talked and taught cricket even in ads in those pre-Bolo Zubaan Kesari days. And well, what a perfect forward defensive stroke from the master himself, the great Geoffrey Boycott. Thank you, Cathay Pacific. #Cricket #GeoffBoycott #CricketCoaching #Nostalgia #Advertisements #Advertising (@g_rajaraman @Raja_Sw @pradeepmagazine @SachinKalbag @VatsMusings @RVarmaMD @anandkumarn @nick_newsum @alawyerwrites @WG_RumblePants @CraigNelsy @nick_newsum )

#swifts we showed the love for you today #ChapelMilton viaducts. @networkrail open the nest entrances now. Tiny holes, giant viaduct #saveourswifts

Meet the lucky winners of the Reform free energy for a year prize Dickie Nice and Isabel Oakshut.

Renewables above 29 GW, Gas below 2 GW. As Ice Cube once said, today is a good day. #NetZero

Don’t forget the County Championship is only watched by one man and his dog according to some of The Hundred shills…

Eddie Paynter — who averaged 59.23 for England — and who famously discharged himself from hospital to come to England’s rescue during the 4th Bodyline Test. He refused Bill Woodfull's offer of a runner, was still there at the close, and returned to hospital that night. But he batted again the next morning and made 83 to help his team to an unlikely first-innings lead.

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Lofthouse & Middlesmoor CC in Yorkshire

At the end of the Second World War, the Allies took on a curious hybrid role in Germany, as occupiers and re-builders. The story of the Soviets in the GDR is particularly complex and full of contradictions. When the Red Army Stayed in ZEITGEIST👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/when-the-red…

Great offer from @SomersetCCC to encourage you to bring your children 👏👏

"I loove ze delicieeious peezza zey zerve in Wokeeng Peeza Exepress."

"DID YOU KNOW MY WIFE WAS GOING TO MAKE A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT?!"

@thechelskikid @patmurphybbc I even had the Peter Bonetti goalkeeper’s kit bought by my parents for me at Frank Blunstone’s shop in Battersea. Sadly, I stopped growing at age 13. More positively, I turned into Chopper Harris (I couldn’t be an Osgood!)

@patmurphybbc My childhood hero along with The Cat!

I recall interviewing Peter Osgood for my Radio 5 series in 1993, asking him whom did he like among modern players. Instantly he replied ‘Big Eric… Eric Cantona. He’s got the lot as an attacker. Reminds me of myself’. Wasn’t said in a boastful manner. Osgood was good - very good

‼️PLEASE RT‼️ @networkrail you really need to do the right thing. This is going to blow up in your faces very rapidly.

From one legend to another. In 1971, Vijay Merchant made the historic decision to select a young Sunil Gavaskar for the West Indies tour. Years later, Merchant takes an autograph from the superstar he helped introduce to the world.

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Bolton Abbey CC in Yorkshire

MP Lee Anderson claims the Bacon Sandwich Diet is what keeps him in tip-top condition.

#NetworkRail will you be cruel or be kind? It is so easy to be kind in this situation - you can unblock the homes that 6 swifts are currently flying thousands of miles back to. Please do email CEO Jeremy Westlake: jeremy.westlake@networkrail.co.uk #SaveOurSwifts

Please spread this as far & as wide as you can but mostly please support it 💪 This is a fan led initiative which is also supported by the ECB & by the counties. We’ll be keeping you updated… but let’s get people talking #countycricketday