Prisons minister Jeremy Wright will announce whether he has agreed to hold an independent inquiry into the deaths of children and young adults in custody.

British snowboarder Jamie Nicholls reaches Saturday's slopestyle final as Billy Morgan makes the semi-finals.

A father's plea to watch a video based on his dead son's Facebook page provokes the network to look again at how families can remember loved ones.

Bombardier has won a £1bn contract to provide trains for the London Crossrail project, the government announces.

Kevin Pietersen disagreed with England captain Alastair Cook during the Ashes tour but there was no row between the pair.

They may still dislike England, writes BBC Sport's Ben Dirs, but Ireland and Wales now share the biggest Six Nations rivalry

Premiership rugby union side Bath are in talks to sign England rugby league international Sam Burgess from South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Moeen Ali and Stephen Parry are named in England's one-day squad for the West Indies and the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.