Peter Eriksson took charge at UK Athletics after the Olympics

Swedish head coach Eriksson to quit for Canada and is latest key figure to exit post-2012

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The iQuiz part two: In pictures

Tuesday's iQuiz first round was as hotly contested as ever - and it's been memorialised on film.

14-year-old girl Cherelle McKenzie-Jackson found guilty of manslaughter of Junior Nkwelle in Brixton

A 14-year-old girl who “set up” a schoolboy to be stabbed by her boyfriend after a row over football was ordered to be detained for eight years today.

Green vision: the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will have tree-lined boulevards

New Loughborough campus to be built on Olympic Park

Loughborough University will establish a campus at iCITY on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Lower university entry grades and let in more sports prodigies, says ex-Olympian Steve Cram

Universities in the UK should start lowering their entry requirements to let in more students with sporting talent, according to an Olympic athlete turned university chancellor.

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey beat Yohan Blake to 100m gold at 2006 World Juniors

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey dreams big after nightmare year on sidelines

Instead of The Lightning Bolt versus The Beast, the big head-to-head on the track at the London Olympics last summer might have been Usain Bolt against Harry A-A. It was a thought that inevitably passed through the mind of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey as he departed Heathrow with the rest of the British team, bound for the first post-Olympic international track and field championship, the European Indoors, which open here in the west of Sweden tomorrow morning.

Shara Proctor competes in two events in Sheffield this weekend

Shara Proctor glad to have followed Reider from Florida to GB

It is three months since Shara Proctor swapped east Florida for the East Midlands.

HMV has announced it will close 66 stores

HMV to close 66 stores

Retailer HMV has announced it will close 66 shops nationwide.

Toni Minichiello, pictured during a training session with Jessica Ennis

Jessica Ennis coach, Toni Minichiello, in talks with UK Athletics over new role

Toni Minichiello, the coach who guided Jessica Ennis from schoolgirl novice to Olympic heptathlon champion, confirmed today that he is still in talks with UK Athletics about working with the domestic governing body in a consultancy capacity.

The Duke of Westminster

Duke's scheme rings down the curtain

Plans for military rehab centre closes theatre to amateur players

The coming crisis in postgraduate funding

There is a significant and growing crisis in funding for postgraduate study in Britain, according to 11 university vice-chancellors.

Sussex winners Universally Challenged

The winners of the iQuiz first round

It was a blistering night of vital trivia in 18 student unions across Britain yesterday, as more than a hundred teams took part in the inaugural iQuiz.

The newspapers were asking questions about his sacking. Hours later Toby Day and his family were dead

Police inspector Toby Day strangled and stabbed his wife and daughter to death

Jonny Marray (right) and Freddie Nelsen were surprise winners at Wimbledon

Jonny Marray aiming to cash in with another double delight

Britain's men's doubles Wimbledon champion is relishing prospect of appearing at O2 next week

Teenagers on murder charge

A girl aged 14 and a boy aged 16 have appeared in court charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy.

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Newly unearthed papers reveal a shocking extra dimension to the constitutional crisis over monarch’s abdication
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The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis’s date for his movie premieres isn’t arm candy  – it’s his 87-year-old friend who he saved from homelessness
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A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about?
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Plenty of sleaze

Dating website pulls intimate 'hook-up' section to curb harassment
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Dan Brown reveals the message that told him door to the lodge is open
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Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

Nick Buckles survived the Olympics débâcle and a £5bn bid fiasco but a profit warning finally triggered his downfall
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In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

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James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

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