Graham Dilley, a hero of the 1981 Ashes Test win over Australia at Headingley, dies aged 52 after a short illness.

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Former England bowler Dilley dies

Trent Bridge will host Ashes Tests in both 2013 and 2015 while Old Trafford will host a game in 2013.

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Entertainment legend Bruce Forsyth is knighted in a list which also recognises Oscar winner Colin Firth, the Ashes heroes and hundreds of “unsung heroes”.

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ATLANTA — Someone stole a Georgia woman’s car — with her grandmother’s ashes inside — shortly after a memorial service for the deceased woman. Ebony Simpson had just returned to Georgia from her grandmother’s memorial service in Tennessee last week. About 24 hours after, the car was gone with the urn containing the ashes in the trunk, she told police in the Atlanta suburb of Norcross. “I was going to put them on a mantel until I could decide what to do,” she recalled Tuesday. “I was going to keep them until I felt ready to let them go.” Read full article > >

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Ashes of woman’s grandmother stolen in car theft

Prime Minister David Cameron has paid tribute to the English cricket team after they won the final Ashes Test in Sydney.

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Listen to how Radio 4 longwave listeners heard the historic end of the final Ashes Test

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Shipping forecast interrupts the Ashes

“After Ashes success, England could now win the World Cup”

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“After Ashes success, England could now win the World Cup”

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Aggers: England could win World Cup

Paul Burnham, the founder of the England cricket supporters’ group, the Barmy Army, reacts to England’s Ashes win.

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England win the final Ashes Test in Sydney by an innings and 83 runs to wrap up the series 3-1 for their first win down under in 24 years.

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England end day four in Sydney on the verge of a third innings win over Australia and a crushing 3-1 Ashes series victory – their first down under for 24 years.

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England end day four in Sydney on the verge of a third innings win over Australia and a crushing 3-1 Ashes series victory – their first down under for 24 years.

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England’s Paul Collingwood will retire from Test cricket after the final Ashes Test against Australia in Sydney.

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Collingwood ends his Test career

Alastair Cook says the pain of enduring a poor summer for England helped him produce his remarkable run of form against Australia in the Ashes.

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Cook glad to end ‘lonely’ summer

Alastair Cook makes 189 for an aggregate of 766 series runs and Ian Bell (115) hits his first Ashes ton as England run riot on day three of the final Test.

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Cook and Bell make Aussies suffer