Paralympian launches college build

Double Paralympics gold medal winner Hannah Cockcroft has received her MBE at Buckingham Palace. The wheelchair racer, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, won gold medals in the T34 100m and the T34 200m events at London 2012. The 20-year-old was ...

Blake Leeper used to cut to the chase in explaining his athletic career by saying he competes against Oscar Pistorius. "People would get it, just like that," Leeper said, immediately making the leap to the South African who last year became the ...

Aussie hip hop artist Seth Sentry has come to the rescue of a Perth fan after the crowd turned on her when she couldn't sit down. Kat O'Kelly-Kennedy was standing near the front of the stage when Sentry asked the crowd to take a seat while he sung, ...

Paralympian Josef Craig took time off from his last day at school before his GCSE exams to launch a £20m expansion of Sunderland College. The South Tyneside teenager, who is also the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year, began work on two ...

Members of the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) are inspiring the mining workforce to take health and safety seriously. Commercial director of the committee, Ian Laing, explains why this unconventional programme is having such a positive

Paralympian Mel Nicholls has revealed that the race in which she broke the 1500m T34 world record was only meant to be a training exercise. Nicholls shaved four seconds off Deborah Brennan's 10-year-old mark with a time of four minutes 12.56 ...

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Paralympians Dame Sarah Storey and Ellie Simmonds OBE have paid tribute to gold medallist Andrew Simpson, who died on Thursday. "Your heart sinks when you hear news like that. It's a small world in sport and things like this affect everybody. It's ...