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FA Cup 4th Round Sutton United 1 Leeds United 0 Sutton United pulled off one of the biggest shocks of this season's FA Cup with a fourth-round win over Leeds, a team 83 league places above them. Jamie Collins' second-half penalty sent the National League side through to Monday's draw with a deserved victory over Championship opposition. Sutton, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, dominated throughout, and forward Roarie Deacon had a goal controversially ruled out for offside. Leeds had Liam Cooper sent off late on. Paul Doswell's side, 16th in England's fifth tier, secured a famous win in front of a sell-out crowd on their artificial pitch at Gander Green Lane. Garry Monk made 10 changes to the Leeds side who beat Nottingham Forest in their last Championship game, and saw his players struggle. The only clear opening they created fell to Stuart Dallas, who was denied by a Ross Worner save when played through on goal in the first half....

The Interview: Nigel Farage, former Ukip leader turned shock jock “Run again? Never say never. It depends what Theresa May does with Brexit” T he last time Nigel Farage was in the Zafferano restaurant, one of the better Italians in central London, it was the day of the EU referendum. “It was raining. We kept willing it to rain even harder to keep the ‘remainiacs’ at home,” he recalls. Farage’s dining partner that day was Arron Banks, the insurance tycoon who had bankrolled the more anarchic of the two Leave campaigns. Banks was certain of victory. Farage was undergoing one of his periodic bouts of self-doubt. “I was sinking into a bit of gloom. On polling day you think it’s all over. With about two weeks to go I felt very confident. With a week to go I was surrounded with euphoria. At that moment I thought we really might win by quite a bit. But then the Jo Cox tragedy just stopped everything.” The Sunday Times,  January 29 2017 In the end the killing of...

THE CLARKSON REVIEW: 2016 ASTON MARTIN DB11 Pay attention, 007, this one does work PEOPLE like Aston Martins. And what’s more, people like people who drive them. They’re seen as cool and intelligent and refined. They know not to drink red wine with fish and are familiar with the Latin name for every single fish in the sea. Astons are driven by people who find Ferraris and Porsches a bit tall-poppy vulgar, a bit Manchester United. A bit disgusting. I get that, but there’s always been a problem. Aston Martins have never been much good. The DB5, trumpeted by many as the best, most iconic Aston Martin of them all, feels pretty much like a Seddon Atkinson dustbin lorry to drive. There’s a scene in the Bond film GoldenEye where Pierce Brosnan races his silver bin lorry through the Alpes-Maritimes against a Ferrari 355. It was supposed to be very exciting but for me it was just annoying because I was being asked to believe that if someone entered a cow into the Grand Nati...

OBITUARY Sir John Hurt Prolific actor who made misfits, victims and lunatics his speciality John Hurt was such a staple of the acting world that he lost track of the number of films he had appeared in — probably more than 150, he thought, which equates to his performing in at least three films a year, every year, since he was 25. Typically he played life’s casualties: the eccentric, disturbed, vulnerable, persecuted or lonely. His most celebrated parts include the outrageous homosexual Quentin Crisp in the television play  The Naked Civil Servant  and the disfigured Joseph Merrick in the biopic  The Elephant Man . With a ravaged face that made him look older than his years and a gravelly voice (he was referred to as the actor with the “most distinctive voice in Britain”), Hurt was not by nature cut out to play romantic leads, and he rarely essayed comedy. He preferred modern works to the classics, and one of his few incursions into Shakespeare was to p...