The public have started entering the Olympic Park ahead of the opening ceremony which begins ... where the first two world records of London 2012 were claimed by South Korea ...

Kirsty Coventry elected as the 10th – and first female – president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year history. The former Zimbabwean swimmer, 41, was Thomas Bach's preferred ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) revealed this week the figures and analysis contained in the new study conducted ...

THE NHS, the late Lord Lawson once quipped, is the closest the English have to a religion. What other country would have ...

The race to become world sport's most powerful figure has entered the finishing straight with International Olympic Committee ...

Instead, a brand new, 63,000-capacity venue will be built in Victoria Park — the first new-build main Olympic stadium since London 2012 (although ... watched the closing ceremony), making ...

In Britain, we might watch the American political horror show with our heads in our hands, but as Right-Wing Watch readers will know all too well, the UK right has been following the same playbook as ...

The NHS has survived many Conservative governments which, according to their opponents, were out to privatise it. But can it survive a growing disenchantment on the part of young professionals who ...

Fifty years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy, stars Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam look back on the ...

Grimethorpe Colliery Band will take to the stage at The Apex in the town on Saturday, April 5, at 7.30pm. Audiences can expect a mix of classic brass band favourites, music from the hit film 'Brassed ...

Dina Asher-Smith after being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the King at an investiture ceremony at ... a kit-bag carrier at the London 2012 Olympics, she enjoyed a ...