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Asher-Smith ready for endurance test as she launches three-pronged attack at the World Championships

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Some 36 years have passed since Kathy Smallwood-Cook became the last British woman to win a global medal at 100m or 200m.




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Doha disaster: 2019 World Athletics Championships' woeful attendance and lack of atmosphere

From Christian Coleman winning 100m gold to Dina Asher-Smith picking up Great Britain's first-ever medal in a women's sprint event, each individual achievement has been undermined in Qatar.




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Lord Coe hails the on-track performances at the Doha championships despite poor crowds  

Just 7,266 fans were in the stands on Sunday with the women's 100 metres final - when Dina Asher-Smith claimed silver behind Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce - in front of a bare stadium.




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Dina Asher-Smith hits the jackpot as star athletes set to cash in at Olympics

The earning potential of Team GB stars could dramatically increase before Tokyo 2020 if the British Olympic Association gets approval to relax 'stifling' sponsorship rules.




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Dina Asher-Smith supports new athletics union on back of unpopular IAAF Diamond League reforms 

Double Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor launched the Athletics Association in the wake of the IAAF's reforms to the Diamond League circuit - a decision that has been met by anger.




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Dina Asher-Smith wants to use new-found fame to help change the face of Athletics

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Dina Asher-Smith is talking about change. About greater expectations.About that point where you're known on a faraway island.




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Coronavirus: Olympians react with fury to IOC's dithering over Tokyo 2020 postponement

Olympians past and present have expressed their dismay at the refusal to immediately cancel or postpone the Tokyo 2020 Games in a chorus of protest at the International Olympic Committee.




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Britain's top Olympians face financial crisis with Tokyo 2020 Games postponed

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE AND RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Team GB stars face a coronavirus cash crisis because of performance-related contracts with sponsors.




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BEL MOONEY: Have I just sacrificed my identity for being a mother?

BEL MOONEY: You worry that you're at fault for 'being just a mother and housewife'. I beg you never use that belittling word 'just' in that context.




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BEL MOONEY: Have I just sacrificed my identity for being a mother?

This week Bel advises a reader who is concerned she has sacrificed her identity for being a mother.




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BEL MOONEY:  Even if your family's broken, now is the time to reach out

This week Bel advises a young woman who feels like giving up on her parents  after feeling they don't make any effort with her.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn’s essential jobs for your garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shared advice for preparing greenhouses for spring. He advises transferring cuttings in cell trays or in a propagator into small or medium pots.




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Coming up roses: Don’t hold back when pruning your climbing roses, says Monty Don

British gardening expert Monty Don shared advice for pruning and planting roses this season. He says an estimated 13 million roses are imported from all around the world for Valentine's Day.




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Action plan: Nigel Colburn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shared advice for tackling weeds before spring hits, boosting ferns, and growing potatoes extra early.




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Action plan: Nigel Colburn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing half-hardy annuals from seed. He also advised on maintaining roses as they come into rapid growth.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn’s essential jobs for your garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing sweet peas that bloom in July and continue to flower throughout summer.




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Monty Don reveals how you can achieve a display of white blooms that will last for months

British gardening expert Monty Don said it is not easy to get a white garden right as it is a difficult colour to use in a border. The style was inspired by Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn’s essential jobs for your garden this week  - Apr 28, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for maintaining large containers planted with longterm shrubs.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn’s essential jobs for your garden this week  - May 12, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn advises gardeners on how to best plant their greenhouse tomatoes in spring. He also said gardeners should have a spring clear out of their bedding material.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn’s essential jobs for your garden this week  - May 19, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for protecting plants from late frost. He suggests investing in fleece to protect tender plants outside overnight.




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Bill Oddie on the joy of bird-watching – and how you can attract them to your garden

Bill Oddie who would cycle to the countryside as a child because he didn't have a garden, shared advice for ensuring your garden is welcoming to birds.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn’s essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for cutting back your summer and autumn-flowering plants.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Jun 23, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for helping gardens deal with all the recent downpours.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Jul 07, 2019

British gardener Nigel Colborn explains how this is the month for soft cuttings.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Jul 21, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared his advice on how readers can increase their production of strawberries.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for summer pruning wisteria. He says pruning now will result in bigger and better flowers next spring.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Sep 01, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for managing ponds this season. He advises removing dying vegetation to improve conditions.




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Thistles can be a spectacular asset to your garden, says Monty Don - and some are edible too 

British gardening expert Monty Don shares his advice for growing thistles. He says creeping thistle which troubles most gardeners have seeds that are excellent food sources for finches.




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Coneflowers such as rudbeckia and echinacea are brilliant pollinators, says Monty Don

British gardening expert Mont Don shares his advice for growing coneflowers. He says the plants are great for biodiversity as they are extremely attractive to insects and butterflies.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Sep 15, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice on gardening now to plan for spring.




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Winners of our garden competition have been chosen - and it's a couple who transformed a wild space

Claire and Robert Bailey-Scott, 43 and 57, from Gosberton, Lincolnshire, have transformed their garden and won the Daily Mail National Garden Competition.




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Tiny flowers pack a punch: Plant small bulbs ...then sit back to watch the show 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shares advice for giving spring gardens a punch. He suggests planting tiny bulb, crocus now for a show in March.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Sep 29, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shares his advice on how to prepare your plants for the winter.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Oct 13, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for keeping perennials young and healthy. The British gardening expert recommends digging up mature plants and gently shaking soil from the roots.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Oct 20, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for re-planting rhubarb to boost production. The British gardening expert recommends re-planting baby rhubarb slips in a new piece of ground.




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Nigel Colborn says plant pumpkins for their tasty flesh not just for jack-o'-lanterns 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn said that the best part of the pumpkin is its nutritious flesh which usually gets thrown out with the seeds.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Nov 10, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for taking root cuttings to produce new plants. The British gardening expert recommends removing thicker roots and re-planting.




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From giant cacti to tiny beauties, drought-loving succulents steal the show, says Monty Don

Monty Don shares his advice for thriving succulents. The British gardening expert recommends using a very gritty compost mix and ensuring that plants have dried out before watering.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for thriving wisteria this summer. The British gardening expert recommends shortening stumps this month to prevent emerging leaves from hiding flowers.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing Moth Orchid's, including purchasing better quality soil than what is already in the plant pot.




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The snowdrop spectacle is here and the wet, mild winter means it's better than ever

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for thriving snowdrops as they reach their peak season. British gardening expert says snowdrops thrive best in freedraining, humus-rich soil with full light.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for using lilies as enchanting patio pot plants. The British gardening expert recommends keeping the plaint in moist compost with access to sunlight.




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The armchair approach: Nigel Colborn says with a border of succulents, you can sit back

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week. He says succulents can usually shrug off anything the British summer can throw at them. Pictured, Aeonium Zwartkop.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for planting sweet peas, pruning shrubs and trimming violas this week.




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Deborah Meaden tells how turning her 16-acre Somerset property over to nature reaped rich rewards

Deborah Meaden's most gratifying investment has been the rewilding of her Somerset home, a former farmhouse surrounded by 26 acres, once owned by prime minister William Pitt the Elder.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's top tips for coping with the deluge

Nigel Colborn claims that months of excessive rain nationwide has made gardens unworkable. British gardening expert warns against sowing outdoors until conditions are suitable.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for the garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shares his advice for increasing the number of snowdrop clumps in your garden.




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The mild winter has been a cracker for crocuses - Monty Don tells how you too can create a display 

Monty Don shares his advice for a dramatic display of crocuses. British gardening expert said those who are hoping to start from scratch should order their bulbs in the summer to plant in autumn




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A touch of class! Gracing a stately pile or just a pot, these rhodos are natural aristocrats 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared his advice for thriving rhododendrons in UK gardens. He revealed the best time for re-potting is between November to mid-February.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Nigel Coleborn shares his advice for sowing courgette seeds and pruning your clematis. The gardening expert also named the plant of the week as the Dutch Flower Record.