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1. Gregor Townsend transformed Scotland’s Calcutta Cup fortunes – now England could hasten his end

   Townsend boasts a remarkable record against the Auld Enemy – but a damaging defeat this weekend would heighten growing scrutiny over his position

2. Starmer latest: UK’s top civil servant Chris Wormald to stand down in another change at No 10

   The Prime Minister said he was ‘grateful’ for Sir Chris’s ‘long and distinguished career of public service’

3. Fox News host condemned for suggesting Savannah Guthrie submit to a lie detector test

   Greg Gutfeld was commenting on the ongoing search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother - but there is no suggestion that the NBC star or any member of her family is involved

4. Jim Ratcliffe apologises for claiming Britain has been ‘colonised’ by migrants as FA looks into comments

   The Ineos founder said he was sorry if he ‘offended some people’ with his remarks, but insisted that is important to ‘raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth’

5. Prince Harry tells families battling social media giants in court over their children’s deaths: ‘You’ve already saved thousands of lives’

   Address to bereaved families comes as landmark court case gets underway in Los Angeles

6. ‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’: Nursery paedophile who used work iPad to record abuse of toddlers jailed for 18 years

   Predatory paedophile Vincent Chan, 45, targeted girls and women aged between two and 70 in a campaign of abuse and voyeurism

7. Chris Wormald quits: Cabinet secretary steps down as Starmer loses another member of No 10 team

   The prime minister said he was ‘grateful’ for Sir Chris’s ‘long and distinguished career of public service’

8. Teenager asked by NHS staff to tell his deaf mother her father was dying, damning report finds

   The ombudsman has raised its concerns about access to BSL interpreters with NHS England

9. Teenage boy who stabbed 12-year-old Leo Ross to death is named for first time

   The killer was detained for a minimum of 13 years after he admitted to the murder of 12-year-old Leo Ross in Birmingham

10. IS suspects transferred from Syria to Iraq are interrogated in a Baghdad prison

    Iraq is questioning thousands of Islamic State suspects who have been transferred from prisons in northeastern Syria as it's preparing to put some of them on trial for brutalities and crimes committed in Iraq