The referee controls everything on the pitch, but the linesmen and umpires also do important jobs. There are two umpires at ...

Salford City Reds have announced that coach Shaun McRae has left the club. The 51-year-old, who had been on leave due to ...

A relative of Craig Harman, jailed for killing lorry driver Michael Little, inadvertently led police to their man after officers used pioneering DNA techniques. DNA taken from a brick thrown through ...

Olympic champion James Cracknell and TV presenter Ben Fogle survived a terrifying capsize en route to third place in the Atlantic Rowing Race. Fogle swam back to the boat after a giant wave threw him ...

Work to preserve the listed building at Briton Ferry near Neath is the first phase of a plan to restore the whole dock area ...

Locations included the mountains of North Wales and Epping Forest The trailer promises a lavish production that models itself ...

This year, Slazenger is supplying 52,200 tennis balls to Wimbledon. About 20,000 of these are used for qualifying and ...

The 1974 bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich were among the most high-profile atrocities carried out by the IRA at the height of its bombing campaign in Britain. A device at the Horse and Groom pub ...

The latest BBC Olympics news plus blogs, analysis, video and audio along with a guide to all the venues and the BBC Olympic Park webcam.

A consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland has won the battle to buy the Dutch bank ABN Amro. About 86% of ABN Amro's shareholders have accepted a 71bn euro ($98.5bn; £49bn) offer to clinch Europe ...

Swindon continue their preparations for League One with a friendly at Hampton & Richmond on Tuesday. Boss Maurice Malpas is ...

Singer Brian Harvey is in a critical condition in an east London hospital after he fell under the wheels of his own car, police have said. The former East 17 pop star was crushed underneath his ...