Pancho Gonzales finally beat Charlie Pasarell 22-24 1-6 16-14 6-3 11-9. It is unlikely it will ever be beaten due to the ...

Gus Poyet claimed a late dramatic winner for Spurs as they came out on the right side of a seven-goal thriller. Spurs had taken the lead three times through Jermain Defoe on his debut and Robbie Keane ...

Paul Foot was a pioneering investigative journalist, whose campaigning style went hand-in-hand with a deeply-held belief in socialism. Shrewsbury School in the Fifties must have been one heck of a ...

Premiership footballer Lee Hughes has been jailed for six years for causing death by dangerous driving. The 28-year-old West Bromwich Albion striker had denied causing the death of father-of-four ...

A fire at Aardman's Bristol warehouse has destroyed artwork, sets and archives relating to some of British animation's most iconic characters. Aardman's Plasticine hero Morph first appeared on Take ...

Former EastEnders actor Mike Reid, who played wheeler dealer Frank Butcher in the BBC soap, died at the age of 67. Reid was a real-life Londoner, born in Hackney, East London, in 1940. A few months ...

Stunned Belgians are starting to get a clearer picture of the Belgian woman identified as a suicide bomber killed in Iraq last month. La Derniere Heure newspaper published a photo of the woman it said ...

Heather Fell failed to overturn a 19-second deficit in the 3,000m run of the modern pentathlon but the Briton won silver behind German Lena Schoneborn. Fell began the final of the five events in ...

Liverpool lifted the clouds from their troubled season by beating Manchester United to win the Worthington Cup in Cardiff. Steven Gerrard's first half goal - deflected off David Beckham - proved ...

Snooker star Jimmy White is changing his name to James Brown, as part of a madcap sponsorship deal. The Whirlwind decided on his new moniker following news that the brown ball in all major tournaments ...

Ayr United are poised to sell their Somerset Park stadium and replace it with an £18m, 7,650-seat replacement in the town's Heathfield district. The Second Division club have secured a 20 acre site in ...

Brian Clough was a controversial, larger-than-life figure and one of the last football managers to rule his club without consulting his chairman or his shareholders. Leading his teams to two League ...