• Updates from day two around the grounds (11am BST start)
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“Is,” writes Iain Noble, “this a record? Nine ‘caughts’ in the Lancs 1^st dig and only Will Williams preventing a complete set for Durham.”

One for the hive mind.

England’s Test captain thrilled Stanley Park on his county comeback but Keaton Jennings helped Lancashire hold firm

I don’t want to sound like an obsessive, but I’ve just watched Stokes doing up his shoelaces through my binoculars. Do all cricket boots have velcro straps and laces, or just if you’re superman? And here he comes: on to bowl at the South End.

Hello Mike Daniels in the Grace Road scorebox! “Cloudy morning at Grace Road. One stand full of school children which livens the place up.

History project tells stories about the lives of women who ran B&Bs in Morecambe

It is true that a postwar northern seaside landlady could be direct, insist on full-board guests being back for tea at 5pm or get nothing, and have no plug sockets in case someone had the wild idea of using a hairdryer.

But were they the unflinching, arms-folded battleaxes often depicted in popular culture? “They generally weren’t,” said the local historian David Evans. “They were firm with their rules but they were fair, they were kind and the important thing for them was that someone enjoyed their holiday and would come back again.”