After becoming the first England team to win a major tournament on foreign soil, the Lionesses will celebrate their Women's Euro 2025 victory with an open-top bus parade in central London and a trip to Downing Street.

That is where the “Proper England” phrase appeared to stem from. When Georgia Stanway addressed the press in the build-up to the Netherlands game, the midfielder said they wanted to get back to being “Proper England”; that it was time to stop talking and take action.

The Bank of England is expected to soon slow the pace at which it shrinks its 558 billion-pound ($754 billion) holdings of government bonds, and economists hope next week will shed some light on its longer-term goals for the stockpile.

Chloe Kelly has once more written her name in the history books. Kelly was England’s hero again at the Women’s European Championship on Sunday.

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Dogs and their owners took to the waves on Sunday for the annual U.K. Dog Surfing Championship on the English south coast. The fun event combines paddleboarding, four-legged athletes and enthusiastic owners for what is billed as light-hearted competition.

England captain Ben Stokes made a much-needed breakthrough for his side on Sunday's final day of the fourth Test against India by dismissing KL Rahul despite appearing to be less than fully fit.

In the team meeting before England’s European Championship semi-final against Italy, manager Sarina Wiegman had a quirky motivational technique for her players. She revealed a little toiletry bag with the phrase: ‘B**ches get s*** done’ written on it.