A post-Olympic buzz boosts clubs across Britain, as Charlie Cooper discovers

The Central Line has been reopened after trains were suspended to and from the Olympic Stadium due to signalling failures.

David Beckham has played a key role in backing the London 2012 Games, but it does not mean that Stuart Pearce has to pick him for the Olympic football team, Lord Coe said today.

Of the Nordic crime writers currently holding readers’ attention in an unbreakable grip, Håkan Nesser is comfortably the most anglocentric.

England footballer Jermain Defoe said today that he was "shocked and saddened" after his cousin was stabbed to death.

A fire at a 16-storey tower block has been brought under control, the fire brigade said tonight.

A former youth Olympic ambassador accused of being involved in the riots in London was remanded in custody today.

Two guns disguised as pens have been seized in raids at the homes of a pair of teenage gang members.

Former England captain David Beckham will be given a lifetime achievement award at tomorrow night's BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony, it was revealed today.

The British yachting couple freed from captivity by pirates in Somalia were preparing to return home yesterday amid personal grief and public controversy over the payment of their ransom.

A corrupt police officer and four other men who plotted to kidnap a bank manager were jailed today.

A man was found guilty today of planning with a corrupt police constable to kidnap a bank manager.

The blood that was spilt at Bloemfontein is still on the carpet; the great inquest into the national game has yet to properly start but this evening another England side play their first group game of another tournament.

When Awais Akram answered his mobile to Sadia Khatoon, a 24-year-old married woman whom he had met on Facebook and had recently started a physical, but not sexual, relationship with, he had little idea of the fate that was about to befall him.