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@EventimApollo Your bag policy is inexcusable. If you aren’t going to allow small rucksacks in (of the kind that virtually everyone in London takes to work), you must have a cloakroom. Your email referenced a “small bag” - which you interpret more strictly than Ryanair.

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Feeling sad and inspired at the same time. I think this clip is probably my dad’s favourite moment in a long lifetime of watching rugby league.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Rob Burrow. Incredible.

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@TfL Surely when the District Line is closed from Earl’s Court to Ealing Broadway & Richmond, you should get the Piccadilly Line to stop at Turnham Green? Such a simple solution is available to mitigate the inconvenience to passengers - why wouldn’t you do that?

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Johnny Cash and Ray Charles sharing a laugh, 1994

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@footballtweet The idea that it’s anyone but Xavi is absurd (and I’m a gooner who watched and loved Vieira in his prime)

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@cblatts I would add: 1) get interested in what you do. If it’s boring or repetitive, find ways of making it more efficient, or making yourself unnecessary. Jobs can be seriously interesting even when it sounds like a dull area to be in

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@bbctms On an outrigger canoe off Hawaii with my phone sitting in a waterproof bag, paddling fast to get to shore to check the score

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@nonewthing @TheFalseNein It’s back to the 1950s. The good old WM formation

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@Ballardian2000 @hector_drummond Not watching the ball and retrieving the bowler’s hat from his pocket to give back to him.

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@JohnSunCricket Yes of course it should. This is the central point. This aspect of the game relies on a degree of pragmatism and mutual understanding between the teams. The Aussies have abused that.

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@woody44z @SkyCricket Not the same - but the end of the over has nothing to do with it. Bairstow was trying to stump Labuschagne in the hope that he overbalanced in the shot. When Bairstow was given out, he had completed the shot and already returned to his crease and signalled that

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@loogantwit @jayrad198900 @Paulnico199 Exactly. Amazed by how many people are using the “over hadn’t been called” excuse, when it’s totally irrelevant. You don’t have a different set of principles for the ball being dead on the sixth ball only.

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@JoelBatham @DisparateDanny @thefulltoss I’ve always thought so, because the non-striker is getting an advantage. But for whatever reason it’s considered unfair in cricket to do a mankad without warning first. This is different, because there was no advantage or attempt to gain one.

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@DisparateDanny @thefulltoss That’s a fair summary, although a bit generous to compare it to a Mankad - at least with a Mankad the batsman at the bowler’s end is seeking an advantage. This was much more unsporting than a Mankad

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@DavidDPaxton @supergutman True. But irrelevant

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@steftweetshere @kieranstead95 @StanCollymore Oh I agree with that - as a batsman I was always paranoid about it. Doesn’t change the fact that the Aussies should have withdrawn the appeal

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@DavidDPaxton @supergutman I’ve read that a few times, but it doesn’t stack up. On the last delivery of the over, the umpire calls over. On the other five, the players all rely on an informal understanding of when the ball is dead. Bairstow signalled that by prodding his bat in his crease.

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@steftweetshere @kieranstead95 @StanCollymore Not really equivalent - because in that case it’s obvious that the ball is in play. Anyone who’s played cricket knows that after most deliveries there isn’t a specific moment when the ball becomes officially becomes dead. It relies on some trust and decency between the teams.