This tale of animals nurturing offspring runs from orphaned lion cubs to cannibal child spiders. It’s the crustaceans that make for some of the most ingenious footage, though

There must be a rule printed on parchment somewhere at the BBC that says all big wildlife documentaries must feature a sweeping shot of the African savannah at the top of episode one. Wildebeest or buffalo must roam majestically across the grasslands in search of water, only for one of the herd to be brought down by a cunning lion or cheetah. The awe is bittersweet: sorry, big guy, but a cat’s got to eat.

This sappingly familiar narrative plays out in the opening instalment of Parenthood, a Sunday-evening naturefest narrated by David Attenborough, before we have blown the steam off our tea. It sets us up for a show that offers BBC One natural history in a cuter, less spectacular and groundbreaking mode than the channel’s classic shows – but the suspicion that it may not have anything fresh to impart is soon dispelled.

• Japanese finishes on 11 under, two clear of Hull

• Lottie Woad happy with top-10 finish

Charley Hull is due high praise for at least making this interesting. It may be of little consolation to the English golfer as her wait for a maiden major win goes on but Hull’s surge was the only thing that ever looked like halting Miyu Yamashita’s Porthcawl procession. What an afternoon of stirring drama this quickly became on the stunning links, which should be rewarded with more high-profile events before too long. To Hull, plenty of plaudits for such a swashbuckling display.

Yamashita eventually prevailed, by two, at 11 under par. The Women’s Open was denied a British winner for the first time since Georgia Hall lifted the trophy at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s in 2018. Still, Hull must feel she is closer than ever to winning one of her sport’s biggest prizes. She now has four second places in majors.

• England bowler left the pitch injured on day one

• Root frustrated with dismissal despite 39th Test century

Chris Woakes is poised to slip his left arm out of its sling and return to action just four days after a ­serious shoulder injury as England, with four wickets in hand, seek the 35 runs required to seal the final Test against India and with it the series.

The scans on the shoulder Woakes injured on the opening day may have suggested he would be out of action for many months, but the 36-year-old is preparing himself to bat if required.

• Aki’s wife had their fifth child in New Zealand

• Centre looking forward to seeing daughter for first time

Bundee Aki has revealed his wife gave birth to their daughter in the back of a car in New Zealand on the same day as the first Lions Test victory against Australia in Brisbane. Aki is yet to meet his fifth child, Aine, and said reuniting with his family is his top priority after helping the Lions to wrap up the series.

Aki was a second-half replacement in the first Test, coming off the bench after 57 minutes and all the while ­coping with the drama unfolding in Auckland. Aine is Aki’s fifth child – all five have names beginning with A – and Aki’s remarkable revelation details the sacrifices made by the touring side, who first got together for a training camp in Portugal in early June.

• Luke McCowan’s 87th-minute goal secures win for Celtic

• Steven Pressley’s Dundee lose 2-1 at home to Hibernian

Luke McCowan’s deflected strike earned Celtic a 1-0 victory in their Premiership opener after St Mirren had frustrated the champions for 87 minutes at Parkhead.

The substitute collected Daizen Maeda’s square pass on the edge of a crowded penalty box and fired a shot which appeared to spin off Mark O’Hara’s leg and nestle into the bottom corner of the net.

Latest ‘mass capture’ in Zamfara state shows banditry crisis shifting from land conflict to organised crime

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 50 people in north-west Nigeria in a mass abduction, according to a private conflict monitoring report created for the UN and seen by Agence France-Presse on Sunday.

“Armed bandits” targeted the village of Sabon Garin Damri in Zamfara state Friday, the report said, the latest attack in a region where residents in rural hinterlands have long suffered gangs who kidnap for ransom, loot villages and demand taxes.

Orchard at Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
Performing standup after a decade away, Davies rawly discusses his abuse by his father and delivers big laughs with other material

It’s been 10 years since Alan Davies’s last standup show , since when, he says, he has had a third child, and surpassed – by distressing margins – the ages of lance corporal Jones in Dad’s Army and “the mad old git in Back to the Future”. Another significant development was his 2020 book revealing the story of his childhood sexual abuse by his father. In his new show, Think Ahead, Davies addresses that on stage – and demonstrates, with reference to his laboured breathing, that he is experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder while doing so.

That can’t be anything other than a compelling stage moment, to see a “people-pleasing comedian” (his words) of 30 years’ standing open up – and so rawly – about a difficult subject unaddressed in his comedy until now. Davies does so with honesty and a lightness of touch. He acknowledges that it’s an awkward topic for mirth, and makes good choices about when to set the jokes aside and when to find the funny. The funny? This was a dad who made colour copies of his child sexual abuse images on the household printer (“How many trips to Rymans?!”) and whose diary, when unearthed by Davies years later, focused exclusively on golf.

• Root and Brook hit centuries before falling

• Home side still needs 35 runs to claim series

First came bad light, then rain, and with it the penultimate day of this epic Test series ended with the ultimate cliffhanger. England had seemingly been cruising to their target of 374, driven by sparkling centuries from Harry Brook and Joe Root, only for India to strike back and leave them six wickets down, 35 runs still required, when the players left the field.

And so despite looking like a dramatic fourth day would bring finality to the contest, this fifth Test decider now heads into the fifth day with everything still on the line.

• Sprinter clocks 22.14sec to edge out Amy Hunt

• Zharnel Hughes runs championship best in men’s 200m

There was plenty that Dina Asher-Smith chose not to say after running a scintillating championship record to retain her British 200m title on Sunday, but there was enough that she did say. Most tellingly, she spoke with a big smile.

It was, she revealed, immediately after a disappointing run at the Eugene Diamond League four weeks ago that she decided a major change was required and there was no time to wait.