Idowu 'hurt' by missed gold chance

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Britain's Phillips Idowu admitted he was "upset and hurt" after seeing Olympic gold snatched from his grasp by an agonising five centimetres in the triple jump final in Beijing.

Galliani: Sheva move is off

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has revealed talks to bring Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko back to the San Siro are "frozen" because of a disagreement between the two clubs.

Black Cats snap up duo

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Sunderland have confirmed the double signing of Djibril Cisse and David Healy.

Hamburg accept city bid for Kompany

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Hamburg have accepted a bid from Manchester City for Belgium defender Vincent Kompany.

Harmison makes England one-day return

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Steve Harmison has dramatically reversed his decision to retire from one-day international cricket and joined up with England's squad for the NatWest Series against South Africa.

Silver medal for Davies

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Britain's David Davies took silver in the 10-kilometre open water marathon behind Dutchman Maarten van der Weijden after the 23-year-old dominated for most of the race on Thursday morning.

Duo round off superb regatta

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson rounded off another impressive Olympic campaign for Great Britain's sailors when they claimed victory in the Star class to collect the fourth gold and sixth medal overall in China.

Traore joins Pompey on loan

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Portsmouth have signed Arsenal's French left-back Armand Traore on a one-year loan deal.

Brits disqualified from relay

11:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Great Britain will not be able to defend their Olympic 4x100metres relay title after being disqualified from Thursday night's semi-finals in Beijing.

Traore joins Pompey on loan

9:44pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Portsmouth have signed Arsenal's French left-back Armand Traore on a one-year loan deal.

Data on thousands of criminals lost

Updated 1:29am Friday 22nd August 2008

Personal details relating to thousands of criminals have been lost in the latest in a line of Government data blunders.

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