Reigning champions Barrow found their form when it mattered as they crushed Widnes 38-0 in Sunday's Championship elimination play-off at Craven Park. Barrow ran in seven tries to earn next Saturday's ...

Premiership footballer Lee Hughes has been jailed for six years for causing death by dangerous driving. The 28-year-old West Bromwich Albion striker had denied causing the death of father-of-four ...

Six people were taken to hospital and 23 others treated for cuts and bruises following an accident on a ride at Alton Towers. It happened when the front carriages of the Runaway Mine Train became ...

To get your mask, click on your favourite player below and print them out (we recommend colour printsouts if you can). Then just cut it out and stick it on some card (like the back of a cereal box) ...

Former EastEnders actor Mike Reid, who played wheeler dealer Frank Butcher in the BBC soap, died at the age of 67. Reid was a real-life Londoner, born in Hackney, East London, in 1940. A few months ...

Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in "weight". Music, ...

Six men who killed a doorman and wounded three others when they tried to force their way into a nightclub have each been jailed for life. Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, was shot in the back as he attempted to stop ...

In the summer of 1940 as Germany seemed set to invade Britain, a secret army was created. Known as the Auxiliary Units, their aim was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines as the German invasion ...

The terms "old" and "new" have been played around with in the cut and thrust of this election campaign but exactly how old are our current crop of political parties? The BBC's Elena Egawhary has taken ...

Cricket Tweets What are tweets? Desperately sad to learn of death of Rory Morrison (48) A familiar TMS Radio4 voice for many years. Lovely man @Aggerscricket 3 mins ago; When Fred ...

Liverpool lifted the clouds from their troubled season by beating Manchester United to win the Worthington Cup in Cardiff. Steven Gerrard's first half goal - deflected off David Beckham - proved ...

Leona Lewis has been crowned winner of TV talent show X Factor, landing a £1m recording contract. The 21-year-old from London ...