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Bus ticket discount for city travel over Christmas
The city council has discounted group tickets for bus travel across Hull over Christmas. Source link
'Scotland qualifying for the World Cup put me in hospital'
The BBC’s entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson needed surgery after a mishap ahead of Scotland’s World Cup qualifying game. Source link
'Stoppages, TMOs, referees' hurting rugby 'badly'
Former Ireland full-back Rob Kearney tells the BBC’s Ireland Rugby Social podcast that he believes changes are coming to improve rugby union as a spectacle in the coming months. Source link
Former England batter Robin Smith dies aged 62
Robin Smith was a key figure in the England side in the late 1980s and 1990s. Source link
Iranian director given jail sentence while on trip to collect US awards
Jafar Panahi gets a one-year sentence in his absence for “propaganda activities” against the Iranian system. Source link
UK faces 'headwinds' from tax and spending moves, OECD says
Growth in the UK economy is expected to slow next year, an influential global policy group predicts. Source link
'First of its kind' scanner to study blast trauma
It will be able to monitor changes in brain function just minutes after weapon use, scientists say. Source link
Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it
We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar Source link
Raducanu 'isn't hiding any more' after stalking ordeal
Emma Raducanu is now comfortable travelling by public transport and does not feel she is “hiding from anything any more” after her stalking ordeal. Source link
'Hung by my wrists and beaten': Israeli-Russian woman says Iraqi militants tortured her in captivity
Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was freed in September, tells the BBC that her two years in captivity left her physically and mentally scarred. Source link