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Wales v Scotland: Six Nations rugby union – live

Updates from 4.40pm kickoff (GMT) at the Principality
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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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© Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images

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West Ham v Bournemouth: Premier League – live

⚽ Updates from the 5.30pm (GMT) kick-off
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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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© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

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Iran refusing to export highly enriched uranium but willing to dilute purity, sources say

Proposal will be at heart of offer to US as Trump considers whether to attack Iran

Iran is refusing to export its 300kg stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but is willing to dilute the purity of the stockpile it holds under the supervision of UN nuclear inspectorate the IAEA, Iranian sources have said.

The proposal will be at the heart of the offer Iran is due to make to the US in the next few days, as the US president, Donald Trump, weighs whether to use his vast naval build-up in the Middle East to attack the country.

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© Photograph: Pierre Albouy/Reuters

© Photograph: Pierre Albouy/Reuters

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Record-breaking Ireland humble woeful England in Twickenham demolition job

  • England 21-42 Ireland

  • Ireland run riot to condemn England to successive defeats

So much for all those expectations of a tight two-horse race. For the second week running England were barely in the frame, comprehensively second best to opponents who started well and kept on galloping to a five-try rout. This was a record Irish win at Twickenham and it is Andy Farrell’s side who remain in the hunt for this season’s Six Nations title while England stare down the barrel of a bottom-half finish.

To say Ireland were miles the better side is simply to state the obvious. The seeds of England’s downfall were sown in a calamitous first half which saw the visitors pull away to a 22-0 lead inside 30 minutes. As in Edinburgh they were guilty of way too many errors, with their lineout all over the shop. They also conceded 15 turnovers in the opening 40 minutes alone in addition to another yellow card, this time for Freddie Steward. It was so bad that Steve Borthwick replaced Luke Cowan-Dickie and Steward for tactical reasons even before the half-time oranges had been sliced.

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© Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

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