CricketCounties vote to cut Championship to 12 matches from 2027 in narrow ballot
Proposal passes 12-6 after ECB promises £1.5m a year to each first-class county, with opponents calling it ‘the thin end of a very long wedge’
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TechnologyBristol robotics start-up raises £140m in largest UK hardware funding round of the year
Harbourline, whose warehouse robots are used by three of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, will double its Avonmouth factory and hire 400 staff
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TechnologyOfcom issues first £24m Online Safety Act fine to messaging app over illegal content failures
Regulator found that Pulsar, which has 9 million UK users, took an average of 11 days to act on reports of child sexual abuse material and had no UK-based moderators
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TechnologyRansomware attack on payroll supplier leaves 40,000 NHS staff facing late or wrong pay
Three trusts in the north-west switch to emergency manual payments after Pennant Systems is locked out of its own servers, with the criminal group demanding £6m
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CricketEngland women seal first ODI series win in India for 17 years
Leicestershire seamer Mollie Fairbrother takes 5-28 as hosts collapse chasing 241 in series decider in Rajkot
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