Eilish McColgan and Jake Wightman are confirmed as two of nine Scots in Team GB's athletics squad for the Paris Olympics.

Wightman & McColgan receive Olympic calls

Track cycling and Great Britain have one of the most fruitful relationships in Olympic history. Team GB have won 78 medals on the track, with 33 of those being gold. The likes of Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and Jason and Laura Kenny have become some of the most decorated Olympians of all time.

Turnbull seeks perfection in bid to join GB greats

The Guardian

Keely Hodgkinson and Josh Kerr are among the gold medal hopes in Great Britain’s athletics squad for the Paris Olympic Games, which was named on Friday

Hodgkinson and Kerr lead GB gold medal hopes in Olympic athletics team 

Cycling Weekly

Women's road team also announced, with Lizzie Deignan competing at fourth Olympic Games

Two debutants in final Olympic squad for Team GB after Katie Archibald injury

BBC News, Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent. Having survived the night as Hurricane Beryl tore across her idyllic home of Union Island with ferocious force, Katrina Coy was taken aback by the extent of the devastation which lay before her. Virtually every building on the island, which lies off...

'Almost whole island homeless' in Hurricane Beryl's wake

A transgender woman and darts player from Hull who has faced a wave of abuse and exclusion from competitions says she has been questioning her future within the game. Samantha Lewis's passion for darts runs deep, and the sport has spanned generations in her family. "Darts has been in my...

Transgender darts player shaken by abuse and bans

The former nurse, 34, attempted to murder the premature baby by dislodging her breathing tube.

Lucy Letby sentenced to 15th whole life term

ESPN

South African police have confirmed to ESPN that the body of former high jump world champion Jacques Freitag has been found, and that a murder case has been opened, after he went missing last month.

Police confirm former high jump world champ Jacques Freitag's body found in South Africa

Objects more than a millennia old have gone on display at a Wiltshire museum to celebrate the life of the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan 1,100 years after he came to the throne. Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury has put on display artefacts loaned from the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum for the Athelstan 1100 exhibition.

Anglo-Saxon exhibition on first King of all England

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell backs Jamie Osborne after handing the Leinster player a surprise Test debut at full-back for Saturday's Test against world champions South Africa.

'He's got presence' - Farrell backs debutant Osborne

The story of Arne Slot's first day in pictures

Parents of an 11-year-old girl who had to be put on dialysis after contracting E. coli from a supermarket sandwich have said they "want answers". The girl, from Merseyside, was in hospital for three weeks with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which attacks the kidneys, after eating an own-brand sandwich from Asda supermarket, legal firm Fieldfisher said.

Girl, 11, 'needed dialysis after eating Asda sandwich'

1 in 20 people have narcissistic personality disorder, but the number of people with narcissistic traits is likely much, much higher. Last time top psychiatrist Dr Tharaka was in the studio, he told us some of the ways we can spot and stop this kind of toxic behaviour in the people we know- his advice has been viewed more than 2 million times on social media. Now, he's back with advice on how to stop being sucked back in with a technique known as 'hoovering'. He's got 5 simple signs you know a 'hoover' and why asking them one simple question could help you escape for good.

What is the narcissistic technique of 'hoovering'?

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Kuei-Shan Little League (Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei) will be returning to Williamsport for the second year in a row and fourth time in history after winning the Asia-Pacific Region tournament over South Korea, earning its bid to the 2024 Little League Baseball® World Series (LLBWS), Presented by T-Mobile. Kuei-Shan Little...

Kuei-Shan Little League Returns to Represent Asia-Pacific Region at the 2024 Little League Baseball® World Series, Presented by T-Mobile

Two friends from Kent say they are traumatised after witnessing the death of a Romanian tourist during a mountain safari in Turkey. Faith O'Neill and Cheryl Morris, from Northfleet, near Gravesend, say they were offered no support after the incident on a tour in Alanya. Contstantin Butnarescu, 32, a Romanian...

Tourists traumatised after witnessing safari death

The vessel, taken from Bowness-on-Windermere on 27 June, is found 240 miles away in Bristol.

Man quizzed in boat theft probe

The 17-year-old boy died in hospital after the incident at West Wittering beach, police say.

Boy, 17, dies during school trip to the beach

The vehicle careered off the road in a 40mph zone, broke through a fence and crashed into a gym.

Fatal 100mph crash dad was 'begged to stop'

TheDailyBeast

The body of South African high jump superstar Jacques Freitag was found this week riddled with bullets near a cemetery in his home country, bringing a weeks-long saga to a conclusion following his June 17 disappearance.The former world champion was found blood-soaked on a patch of grass in Pretoria West, and police say they are treating the case as murder. He was last seen leaving his mother’s house with an unknown man, and was declared missing soon after. Local reports suggested that the star athlete may have been down on his luck and even struggling with drug addiction at the...

World Champion High Jumper Found Shot to Death Near South African Cemetery

A painting described as a masterpiece which was found in a plastic bag after being stolen has sold for £17.6m at auction. Rest On The Flight Into Egypt, painted by Venetian master Titian when he was aged just 20 in 1510, was sold by London auction house Christie's. The...

Masterpiece found in plastic bag sells for £17.5m

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Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad

World champions Josh Kerr and Katarina Johnson-Thompson lead Team GB's athletics medal hopes for the Paris 2024...

Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad

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