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Today β€” 26 June 2024Main stream

Worcestershire v Surrey, Essex v Durham, and more: county cricket – live

26 June 2024 at 06:45
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Ali ponders England’s chances:

Good morning Tim Maitland! β€œSpent more time than I’d care to admit trying to decide who to watch now that Yorkshire have been so inconsiderate as to win inside three days. I’ve plumped for Essex v Durham on the basis that it’s the most significant in terms of the championship itself and that I should at least get a spirited rearguard action from second-placed Essex.

”Judging from the second over of the day Dean Elgar is not going to last long facing Callum Parkinson and a Kalahari Desert of rough outside the left-handers off stump. And the nightwatchman Jamie Porter has gone for 3. A beautiful ball from Matthew Potts nipped in a fraction to literally take the top of off: it would have done for better batsmen.Essex 43 for 2.

”It’s something to do while I get the char siu and poached eggs on rice ready.” Sounds delicious. While you’re at it, I think buginabreeze was up for a lunch order…

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Β© Photograph: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo/REX/Shutterstock

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Β© Photograph: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo/REX/Shutterstock

Before yesterdayMain stream

β€˜I hope he loses’: Jeremy Hunt facing uphill battle in Godalming as voters long for change

24 June 2024 at 08:37

Many describe Hunt as a good local MP but some are looking to tactical voting to punish the Conservatives

The beautiful Surrey Hills are well known for two things: a high concentration of some of the UK’s richest residents, who commute from the β€œstockbroker belt” to well-paying jobs in London, and some of the country’s most popular cycling routes.

The two combined on a recent chilly Saturday morning in a 100km bike ride that passed through the picturesque lanes of the newly created Godalming and Ash constituency. Most of the 10 riders from Velo Club Godalming Haslemere were happy to chat politics as they pedalled up (and down) 1,168 metres of the county’s steepest hills on customised carbon-fibre racing bikes, some of which cost more than a family car.

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Β© Composite: The Guardian/Guardian Design Team

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Β© Composite: The Guardian/Guardian Design Team

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