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The 23-year old raced home at the Manchester Aquatics Centre after claiming a winning points total of 879 in the women’s MC 100m-Freestyle final.

Manchester City’s Yaya Toure has claimed the club denied him compassionate leave to visit his dying brother – as rumours of a summer Etihad exit grow.

Ex-Manchester United striker Andrew Cole has backed claims that England players duck out of international duty, insisting that international football is ‘just a bonus’.

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.

British number five Smethurst wasn’t given much chance against big-serving American John Isner and the number nine seed boomed down 26 aces to Smethurst’s four in the 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 encounter.

British number five Samantha Murray, in only her second appearance at the All England Club, was never likely to progress against former champion Maria Sharapova though she made an impression in her 6-1 6-0 defeat.

Charlton has begun a personal crusade to fight the evil of landmines and has spoken in depth about some of the horrors that he encountered through seeing them up close.

The 26-year-old, nicknamed ‘Little Pea’ and who was officially the fastest player at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, scored his country’s final goal in a 3-1 defeat of Croatia to secure a place in the last 16.

Midfielder Herrera, part of Spain’s London 2012 Olympics squad, would become only United’s second midfield signing in seven years after Belgian Marouane Fellaini became the first in six last summer.

Blessed with Hollywood looks and a 6ft2” frame, Stockport’s own Naomi Broady has been turning heads since her teens but not necessarily for the right reasons.

Jamieson will be joined in the pool by two times Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds, with the pair expected to draw in the crowds from swimming fans across the country.