The Swede replaced Charles van Commenee last October

Paula Radcliffe might be baffled by Mo Farah's "half measure" approach to this year's London Marathon – he plans to drop out at the midpoint – but the fastest female marathon runner of all-time believes the double Olympic champion will take British men's marathon running back to the future when he tackles the full 26.2 mile distance for the first time next year. The British men's record has been stuck at 2 hours 07 minutes 13 seconds, the time achieved by Welshman Steve Jones, since October 1985. In Radcliffe's estimation, Farah is "well capable of running a 2hr 04min marathon".

A 39-year-old man from Gateshead was detained

A javelin thrower and coach has been banned from all competition for four years for possessing numerous banned substances discovered after a raid by police.

After decades in which the number of Anglo-Jews was perceived to be in decline, the latest census figures shows a modest rise in those describing themselves as Jewish.

Around 830 jobs are under threat after one of the UK's biggest drinks suppliers collapsed into administration.

Around 200 people have lost their jobs after a recruitment firm went into liquidation.

A couple won almost £100,000 on the lottery twice over, after accidentally buying two tickets, Camelot has revealed.

The beleaguered fashion chain French Connection has put up the "for sale" sign outside 14 of its UK shops in large shopping centres across the UK.

Last season's beaten finalists Leeds were given a fright by Salford before booking a place in the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup. The world champions were held 6-6 at the break but scraped through 16-10 thanks to tries from Ben Jones-Bishop and Shaun Lunt in the second half.

Liberal Democrats have a proud history of defending civil liberties, both in opposition and more recently in a Coalition Government. We successfully opposed the Labour government's undermining of data privacy in 2009 and since taking office in 2010 we have turned back the tide of Labour's erosion of these liberties. So far we have destroyed the ID cards database, halted the indefinite retention of innocent peoples' DNA, turned off the ContactPoint database, stopped the mass fingerprinting of children without permission from their parents and ended child detention for immigration purposes.

The Government has promised to give all pupils access to music.

For years, St Asaph thought it was a city, but was not. Now, for 10p a head, it's a big shot after all

As austerity bites, the temples of culture will have to change and be at the centre of communities, says Nicholas Kenyon