The skeleton of one of history’s most swashbuckling figures may have finally been found buried beneath the floor of a church ...

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England have been drawing on the advice of double Olympic gold medallist Matt Weston as they look to arrest their Six Nations ...

Charlotte Bankes stares up at the red telephone box. “I could probably climb on top of it, if you wanted me to,” says the ...

In the space for three days in February, Matt Weston finished first in the high-stakes sport of skeleton (both in the men’s title and with mixed team partner Tabitha Stoecker), making him the first ...

Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home According to the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, 3,500 people have ...

TEAM GB have pulled off the perfect Italian Job – and unlike Michael Caine they WILL bring back home the bullion. The 1969 British comedy caper saw a group of Cockney criminals, led by Caine, steal ...

And on the seventh day, Great Britain finally won their first medal of these Olympics. At nine o’clock on Friday night Matt Weston, the man his teammates call “Captain 110%”, became the first British ...