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...“Once again, the Skrull have betrayed the Kree,” snarls the villainous Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) towards actors made-up as sentient globe artichokes....
...On Thursday, America’s understated defence secretary Ashton Carter used a visit to the US aircraft carrier named in the former president’s honour to deliver a highly symbolic warning to China....
...“Clearly, these two soldiers are trail blazers,” Ashton Carter, secretary of defence, said on Thursday....
...Commander Robert Francis, captain of the USS Lassen, said his ship got within 6-7 nautical miles of the artificial island at Subi reef and gave the Chinese no advance warning....
...So what of Ashton Agar, the boy wonder? He had a long bowl in the heat, performing very respectably and dismissing both the England captain, Alastair Cook, and Jonny Bairstow....
...At breakfast-time Ashton Agar might have been a village in Somerset for all most of us knew. He is, we now know, a 19-year-old left-arm spinner from Western Australia and he is in the Australian side....
...The first victim was the teenage wonder Ashton Agar, promoted to No 8 after his first-innings heroics. Perhaps Pattinson, now bringing up the rear, felt he had a point to prove....
...Michael Clarke, Australia’s captain, looked a different class to everyone else, giving proceedings an air of calm, class and professionalism....
...Smith got the sharp turn that had eluded Ashton Agar (he’s just so last week) and dismissed Bell, for 109, Bairstow and Matt Prior in no time....
...… Back at Covent Garden, the backstage skills that make the place tick were well in evidence for this year’s “Paul Hamlyn Christmas Treat”, a performance of Cinderella by Sir Frederick Ashton, the Royal...
...Cathy Ashton is our team leader and our captain. I think she’s just the kind of person we need....
...Yet its handling of England coaching, with head coach Brian Ashton in limbo and former captain Martin Johnson contemplating the possibility of becoming team manager, has echoed the WRU at its worst....
...He played down the importance of individual leadership, saying that “as a captain that gets overplayed....
...That would send Shaw, Martin Corry (34), Andy Gomarsall (33), Ben Kay (32), Josh Lewsey (31) and perhaps captain Phil Vickery (31) to join Mike Catt, Jason Robinson and Lawrence Dallaglio in international...
...The Italian pack were excellent, with a towering display at number eight by captain Sergio Parisse....
...They face Samoa with Josh Lewsey, previously written off as a full-back by coach Brian Ashton, at full-back....
...Tomorrow’s clash at the Stade de France brings him up against another claimant, Argentina’s veteran captain Agustín Pichot....
...Recalled at 35 after a five-year absence from England’s starting line-up in the RBS 6 Nations championship, and made captain into the bargain, the irresistible temptation is to ask quite how many rugby lives...
...Pardew remained popular with fans to the end, largely because of the belief that his project had been derailed by forces beyond his control; the injury to striker Dean Ashton, the unexpected arrival of Carlos...
...Media and SportThe Rt Hon James Purnell MP Secretary of State for Northern IrelandThe Rt Hon Shaun Woodward MP Leader of the House of Lords (and Lord President of the Council)The Rt Hon the Baroness Ashton...
...Ashton said that stand-in Olly Morgan, a Gloucester club-mate of Balshaw’s, had played well, but that he wanted Balshaw’s greater experience....
...Ashton, 23, had an operation on Monday night to remove an area of scar tissue around the break....
...Both are likely to be lacking on Wednesday evening at Ashton Gate when Bristol play Bath in the Guinness Premiership....
...If his team can follow its victory at Coventry’s spanking new stadium 11 days ago by extending its unbeaten run to 18 matches in today’s fourth-round FA Cup tie at Ashton Gate against Premiership Middlesbrough...
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