What are the roots of British social apathy?

Alice Jones' Arts Diary

Why not give students the choice of which activity they partake in?

Education watchdog says sessions fail to build up strength or stamina of children

Hampstead Theatre is riding high at the moment. Their splendid revival of David Hare's The Judas Kiss has just moved triumphantly into the West End. And now they are celebrating a transfer of a different kind.

He must love Lycra

Strictly Come Dancing drew almost half the TV audience on Saturday night as ratings for the final were up on the previous year – and it beat the X Factor finale.

Basketball, handball, wrestling and table tennis miss out on funding altogether

Although participation in the key 16-25 age range has seen no growth

The rock-climber, who gave the sport mass appeal but was beset by inner demons, has died at 52

In 1908, it was called the finest walk in the world. It's still the country's most popular hike

Only half of the seats for some of the prime events at the London Olympics were sold to the British public, leaked figures reveal.

Relatives of six men killed in an attack by loyalists on a Catholic bar in Northern Ireland eighteen years ago are pursuing legal action alleging state collusion in the incident.

Six-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift will perform at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards next month. But she won't be the only gold winner in the room.