A bizarre round of speculation about who might be the next Conservative party leader was set off by Tory MPs today, after admirers of the little-known backbench MP Adam Afriyie nominated him as their answer to Barack Obama.

England coach still unsure about his team for the Six Nations game against Scotland

Huddersfield Town have sacked their manager, Simon Grayson, following the club's recent slide down the Championship table.

Deloitte release its annual Money League

Inez McCormack was a Belfast Protestant who left behind her family's unionist background to become a lifelong activist in the fields of civil rights, human rights, women's rights and fair employment. A rare bird in Northern Ireland terms, she rose to become a trade union leader in a highly male-dominated scene. Often the sole woman on boards and committees, she once remarked drily, "there is no fun in being the first woman on anything."

England midfielder has now returned to action

Scotland open Six Nations campaign against England

Air Cadets will no longer be forced to swear a religious oath.

A four-times winner of the Heineken Cup and the team who have won it for the past two seasons could both go out of this year's competition after a dramatic final day of pool matches today.

Manchester United midfielder has been ruled out for the rest of the season

Manchester City revealed yesterday that the midfielder had been released

Manchester City announce midfielder has been released

Former PM requested trial, in which he is accused of having sex with an under-age prostitute, be halted during elections

As recently as a month ago, Northampton were all dressed up with nowhere to go. Spanked by Ulster on home soil, their chances of playing knockout rugby in the Heineken Cup seemed more remote than the Planet Zog. Their domestic league form was nothing to write home about, they had lost the services of their long-serving coach Paul Grayson in circumstances that were never satisfactorily explained, most of their best players were either injured or out of form and it looked for all the world as though the influential figures they had lost to Irish provinces last May – the No 8 Roger Wilson and the centre James Downey – were being terribly missed.