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Amjad Khan receives ECB backing

2009-10-13T12:20:55Z

Kent seamer Amjad Khan has been told he is still in the England frame after being included in the top category of players in their latest performance squad

'My brother is no street rat' says youth in burning car case

2009-09-29T11:23:39Z

Latest: Youth accused of tormenting mother and her disabled daughter before they died in a burning car, defends his brother

Luke Wright�s a doubt after batting blow

2009-09-14T14:08:25Z

England's Luke Wright is an injury doubt for the fifth one-dayer against Australia

Complaint lodged over naked Fourth Plinther

2009-09-03T07:29:16Z

Gangs learn a sense of fair play by taking up cricket

2009-08-17T10:01:09Z

Teenagers from rival gangs have learned to overcome their hostilities by playing cricket

Coach: Suit pressure didn't fit well with beaten Adlington

2009-08-03T08:32:32Z

Olympic hero Rebecca Adlington has been backed by the GB team chief after her surprise defeat in the World Championships

Brixton riding club wins charity prize of �60,000

2009-07-09T07:02:54Z

Riding club that helps reduce youth crime on tough London estates by offering free lessons has won a �60,000 sports charity award

Andy Flower optimistic ahead of Ashes

2009-06-17T09:17:59Z

Cricket: Andy Flower remains convinced England will start their Ashes campaign next month full of confidence despite their disappointing exit from the World Twenty20 tournament

Paul Collingwood: Kevin Pietersen�s ready for South Africa showdown

2009-06-10T08:34:11Z

Cricket: England skipper expects star to be on top form against the country of his birth in Super Eight clash

Kevin Pietersen in race to prove full fitness

2009-06-01T09:00:19Z

Cricket: Kevin Pietersen has two warm-up matches this week to wipe away lingering concerns about his fitness before England begin their bid for a Twenty20 World Cup glory

Paul Collingwood looks for Ashes momentum

2009-06-01T07:25:04Z

Cricket: Paul Collingwood is intent on helping England's Ashes hopes later this summer by making history and lifting the ICC World Twenty20 trophy in the next few weeks

University of sport to be created in Olympic Park

2009-04-21T10:15:47Z

A research centre specialising in sports medicine and technology is to be built in the Olympic Park after the 2012 Games

Kevin Pietersen's set to take command again

2009-04-17T08:52:25Z

Cricket: Kevin Pietersen will have the chance to prove he can be a successful captain when he leads the Bangalore Royal Challengers on his Indian Premier League debut against Rajasthan Royals in Cape Town

Yet another knee blow puts Simon Jones out of Ashes contention

2009-04-16T08:44:37Z

Cricket: England's hopes of recreating the Ashes magic of 2005 when the old enemy arrive this summer have been dealt a blow with the news that Simon Jones faces a two-month spell on the sidelines

Face it, ECB are the fools in this fiasco

2009-01-07T14:52:02Z

The indecent haste in which England�s cricket managers appointed both coach and captain is what lies behind the shambles

Crisis-hit Muslim school bailed out with state funding

2008-10-28T08:36:13Z

A Muslim school has been given state funding to save it from closure

Man found stabbed to death in flat

2008-10-27T09:06:44Z

A 34-year-old man has been stabbed to death on a south London housing estate

Nice guy Davies splashes out in lakeside drama

2008-08-21T08:22:29Z

Exhausted to the point of delirium, battered swimmer David Davies had to be carried off to an ambulance after earning the most courageous medal of any British athlete at these Olympics

Goldie consigns misery of Osaka to distant past

2008-08-19T07:49:03Z

Goldie Sayers exorcised the wretched memories of her world championship calamity to qualify for the Olympic javelin final in Beijing

7/7 victim nears end of marathon walk from bombers' city

2008-08-15T07:31:49Z

A woman who lost both legs in the 7/7 bombings is on the final stretch of a 200-mile walk aimed at bringing communities together

Phelps' gold rush gathers pace

2008-08-12T07:50:45Z

American swim star joins list of all-time greats with ninth Games title - and he's still not finished

Tancock dreams of life in fast lane

2008-08-05T12:44:05Z

Olympic swimmer would like a �200,000 Lamborghini - but admits he still drives his mum's Astra

Special one Montell can lead sprint revolution

2008-07-22T10:44:01Z

Having broken Kathy Cook's 27-year-old British record, Montell Douglas is now eyeing an Olympic medal

Olympic hopefuls

2008-07-07T09:55:48Z

Sports Correspondent Matthew Beard runs the rule over the British athletes hoping to play a part in London 2012

Friends reunited in clubland

2007-11-16T13:15:31Z

The Big Uni Reunion is a great party night for catching up with pals from those good old student days.

Protest artist nominated for Turner Prize

2007-05-08T08:18:16Z

The artist who recreated the Parliament Square anti-war protest in Tate Britain has been nominated for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize.

There's life in the old gastropub yet

2007-04-17T23:00:00Z

Moves are afoot to call time on gastropubs. But The North Star in Islington makes a good argument for their survival, says Fay Maschler.

London transport on 31 December

2006-12-29T12:22:41Z

Sharp Knives a cut above

2006-08-16T23:00:00Z

They might look like a gaggle of junior accountants, but an hour of turbo-charged jagged individualism from The Young Knives proved them to be an altogether more startling proposition.