Anya Waugh is eight years old and was born with spina bifida, a condition that leaves a gap in the spine during development which has left her paralysed from the knees down.

This year’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race might have been a very different affair to his last one, but there was no wiping the smile off Sir Ben Ainslie’s face.

Salford-born Williams is the latest in a line of top-level British athletes to move abroad and lap up the culture in a country that lives and breathes the sport they toil away at for a career.

Bill Baillie, also Talent Development Officer for UK Deaf Sport, and Neil Chorley, working wonders for handball in Salford and Britain.

Cycling is alive and kicking in Britain but track disciplines need the attention of old to restore number one world billing

The Etihad Stadium will play host to world cup matches

London 2012 Olympics pipped them to the top spot

Hirusha Henricus became club chairman at 17

The Slide2Sochi Winter Olympic Roadshow came to Manchester last weekend

Goddard made the announcement on Twitter

Brearnna Close claimed the medals at Sainsbury’s 2013 School Games