‘Thinspiration’ is a word that has come into our lives over the past decade. This word has encouraged young girls to look to the super skinny celebrities dominating the media, encouraging them to engage in restricting fad diets and unhealthy body images. With an increasing amount of size zero celebrities […]

So we may not all have the luxury of a Hawaiian holiday home, a Portugal retreat, or a house, and certainly not the Hawaii dinner cruise for kids that we’d booked, and within walking distance of Fistral Beach. The dreams of sacking off the office job for a laid-back surfing […]

Occupying the dreaded bottom spot of the Barclays Premier League at the turn of the year, QPR were staring down the barrel of an ignominious return to the Championship after a summer of exorbitant spending by the ousted Mark Hughes (closely supervised by super agent and Sparky afficionado Kia Joorabchian). […]

In the wake of the Lance Armstrong confessions to media tycoon and acknowledged cycling novice Oprah Winfrey, the eyes of the sporting world have once more fallen upon cycling. Old wounds have been opened, and the spectre of doping lingers around a sport seemingly on the up. Making the headlines […]

Fresh from his extraordinary exploits in 2012, Andy Murray has begun his 2013 Australian Open campaign in convincing style. Having removed the Grand-Slam-shaped monkey from his back, expectations grow that Andy can claim the Holy Grail of British tennis and win Wimbledon. However, he may finally get some help along […]

The 2012 Formula One season gave us eight different Grand Prix winners driving for six different teams, and a season long duel for the title crown between Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel. How will the season be remembered? In this feature, we pick the best, most memorable and worst moments […]

Sebastian Vettel became the youngest ever triple Formula One World Champion today after a scintillating climax to the 2012 season at the Brazilian Grand Prix. The destiny of the championship see-sawed repeatedly during the race, which saw Britain’s Jenson Button win in seriously damp conditions. The race began only seconds […]

British duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button locked out the front row of the grid for tomorrow’s championship-deciding Brazilian Grand Prix. The two Mclaren drivers were separated by only five-hundredths of a second and start side-by-side at the front of the grid for the last time in the same team. […]