Ben Clerkin

Top women chess players are threatening to boycott the world championship in Iran because they will be forced to wear hijabs. US women’s champion Nazi Paikidze threatened to pull out of the games.

Led by spin bowler Graham Swann, who made the dance famous on his Ashes Video Diaries, the entire team brought delight to the travelling Barmy Army who had just seen them retain the Ashes for the first time in 24 years.

When millionaire Mike Holland read Kate Mayne’s account of coping with her daughter’s heroin addiction, he got in touch to help.Within weeks the two were having an affair.

That Lewis Hamilton has the driving skills of a champion, there is little doubt.But he obviously didn’t inherit those skills from his father. The proof? It’s pictured lying battered in a hedge - all £330,000 of it. This is the damage that the Formula 1 driver’s father left in his wake yesterday af…

Asda unveiled plans to sell sausages for 2p each. But critics have questioned just how salivating the offer really is.