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Under a lot of pressure and the ragtag attached to Sri Lanka, Karunaratne has to take his team back to its winning days.

Sarah Berry, tutor at RagTag, said: "If we can be there doing events like this, which is fun for everybody but also showing a presence, it means when people aren't going through a good time they know we are there, they can find us and get some help sooner rather than later.

This area was in the news 10 years ago when a ragtag group calling itself the Saboat Land Defence Forces, led by Wycliffe Matakwei, caused so much death and suffering.

The whole ragtag cast of supporting characters, human and otherwise, shines.

This ragtag militia was trying to impose its will on the people of Yemen by force.

But no-one has voted specifically for it and I suspect that if we had been offered a choice between Labour and a ragtag coalition led by a troika comprising Leanne Wood, Andrew RT Davies and Neil Hamilton, then Carwyn Jones would have gone in on a landslide.

Summary: Turkey's response to Russia's involvement along its border with Syria not only destroyed a Russian jet and an uneasy understanding between those fighting ISIS, but also shattered some myths surrounding the ragtag group of powers in the nearly five-year war.

However, I am distressed that the distinguished headmaster of an outstanding school should have displayed such breathtaking ignorance in saying that the 'Lords have become a ragtag of sour-faced old political has-beens...' Is he quite unaware that there are more than 170 independent non-political crossbench peers, of which I am one, who are capable of deploying a huge range of knowledge and skills based upon a background of scholarship in many spheres?

The ragtag band of entertainers who've taken up residence at the Town Moor includes clowns, jugglers and illusionists from around the world.

MOUNTAIN GOATS BBC1, 10.35pm Last year, BBC One revived the Comedy Playhouse format (the anthology that in a previous life gave us Steptoe and Son, The Liver Birds and Till Death Do Us Part) to bring us three sitcom pilots, including Miller's Mountain, the tale of a ragtag collection of Scottish mountain rescue volunteers.

MAY 5 A ragtag Mexican army defeats the French in the Battle of Puebla.

BLACK SEA 15, 114mins Jude Law is nicely steely as a submarine captain who puts together a ragtag crew to hunt for Nazi gold on board a sunken U-boat deep in the Black Sea.

John becomes the unofficial leader of their ragtag platoon of misfits, but when a mission goes awry, it's up to them to come to the rescue.