The Team Ineos principal thinks it is time to look at extra measures such as special Kevlar-based clothing to protect riders at the point of impact following Chris Froome's accident.

Chris Froome's team-mate Geraint Thomas believes the injuries the four-time Tour de France champion suffered in a horrific crash last week could have been 'a hell of a lot worse'.

Team Ineos were fearing their Tour de France ambitions had been derailed on Tuesday after Geraint Thomas crashed heavily and ended up in hospital during the Tour de Suisse.

The 33-year-old was ruled out of even competing in the grandest of cycling's three tours after suffering extensive injuries in a crash during the Criterium du Dauphine last month.

Chris Froome admitted he is 'relieved' to be back home and will be following the Tour de France from his bed following the horror crash that left him seriously injured.

Froome posted a picture on social media following the operation, restating his goals of getting back to full fitness in time for next summer's Tour de France and the Olympic road race in Japan.

Nine months after his career almost ended in a bone-splintering crash into a French garden wall, Froome's comeback to cycling gets going in the desert setting of the UAE Tour on Sunday.

The Tour has not been cancelled since 1946 when France was recovering from the War but has now been cancelled is in its 107th year after France's lockdown extension.

JANE FRYER: Allen McCloud, 59, is the businessman behind the swingers club at the Croydon Hall Hotel, in the sleepy village of Rodhuish, population 293, near Minehead in Somerset.

Retired engineer Richard Keedwell, 71, has spent nearly three years, attended seven court hearings and spent £30,000 of his sons' inheritance disputing a £100 speeding fine.

Roald was plagued by the feeling he had let his 'favourite child' down after Olivia contracted measles encephalitis, writes JANE FRYER. The first vaccine was licensed the following year in the U.S.

During an alarmingly meandering and sweary after-dinner speech for online LGBT newspaper PinkNews earlier this month, Dawn Butler declared that almost all giraffes were gay.

JANE FRYER: Over the past six decades his art has embraced everything from German mythology to astronomy; maths to comparative religion; politics to war. And all the while, become bigger.

The Rev Chris is the hottest thing in the Church of England right now. Not just in terms of his fame - he has more than 117,000 Instagram followers and is a massive hit on YouTube channels.

JANE FRYER: Bob Weighton, of Alton, Hampshire neither drinks nor smokes. 'I tried one of my brother's cigarettes when I was 12, was sick and I've never smoked since,' he says.

Prince Albert's cruel notes to Queen Victoria shatter their mythic love story - he called her 'my child' and cut her down - saying 'I feel the dreadful waste of most precious time, and of energies' with her.

A.N. WILSON: Peter Phillips' tacky and absurd milk advertisement, reported in yesterday's Daily Mail, has provoked understandable laughter and contempt.

What on Earth do Tory Remoaners think they are playing at? Don't they realise that by courting Labour support they could sink their party – and hand the keys of No 10 to Jeremy Corbyn?

But though the perpetrator of this ghastly crime may have different coloured skin from the others, their motivation was the same – to sow hate and division in our tolerant society.

If Corbyn truly believed in democracy, he’d roundly condemn today’s ‘Day of Rage’, organised by the storm troops of the hard Left to bring London to a halt and help overthrow the Government.

So this is it. We have arrived at the moment when Parliament can finally end this Brexit purgatory. Alternatively, they could continue to put petty politics before the national interest.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The FA leadership will have an unlikely say in the appointments of the new chief executive and chairman of the Premier League.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: An FA council meeting on October 24 looks like being pivotal to the proposed £600million sale of Wembley to Fulham owner Shahid Khan.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The troubled Hundred format on which the England Cricket Board are placing so much importance is facing a critical fortnight.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: One of the longest contracts in sport is complicating the FA’s plan to bring the England players’ commercial operation in-house.

CHARLES SALE - THE SPORTS AGENDA: adidas invited all their English football clubs to their Munich headquarters last week to present future plans.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: It has not gone down well at the Trianon Palace Hotel, where both teams are staying, that the Americans have brought their own chef.

CHARLES SALE: Sky's continued coverage of the Ryder Cup for the next two tournaments is by far the most crucial aspect of their new four-year deal with the European Tour, agreed on the eve of the event.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: Gary Lineker has infuriated the golf community by calling Justin Rose's popular caddie Mark Fulcher 'an absolute numpty'.

As yesterday’s special European Union summit made clear, this country’s divorce from Brussels is likely to be painful. It is a time when Britain needs a strong, clear-headed and resolute Prime Minister.

It is hard to view Boris Johnson's Brexit outburst as anything other than a hostile act, coming less than a week before Mrs May sets out her own Brexit vision in a speech in Florence.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s camp threatens to destroy the fragile peace so recently achieved by the Prime Minister.

Chief Constables are not hired to change the law. They are hired to enforce it. Mike Barton, the Durham Police chief, needs to be sharply reminded of this, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY says.

The Mail on Sunday urges MPs to end the chaos and indecision, recover their good sense, and support the Prime Minister. Loyalty has never been so important.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, today goes public to say Seumas Milne - Jeremy Corbyn's closest courtier- stands 'no chance' of passing Whitehall checks.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Our hearts go out to the frontline staff in the NHS who face dangers as great as any endured by soldiers in battle.

The Grammy award-winning composer says the R&B superstar took her role as lioness Nala in the upcoming Disney remake 'very seriously' and he has hailed her new track Spirit.

She, along with Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland, were called out in the new track. And Lupita Nyong'o was excited when she heard her name in Beyonce's song, Brown Skin Girl.

Beyonce's seven-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter has made her singing debut in her new song 'Brown Skin Girl'.

Beyonce has been dominating the pop culture landscape for well over a decade now, but the busy performer still puts her children Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi above all else.

Disney knows success when it sees it, and the mass media conglomerate is looking to lock that success down with bankable partnerships.

Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z, is celebrating a career first this week, as the song in which she is featured, Brown Skin Girl, has debuted on the Billboard Top 100.

The photo was historic in its own right, as photographer Tyler Mitchell was the first-ever African-American person to shoot a cover for Vogue in its 125 years in print.

Sara Vahabi said in court docs that she attended the September 23, 2018 show- which was in their On the Run II tour - and left her purse at a tent for check ins prior to going into the venue.

She impressed Ricki-Lee Coulter with her first performance on Australia's Got Talent.  

Kanye famously jumped on stage in New York to declare that Beyonce should have won the Best Female Video prize which had just gone to Swift (pictured).

It's been 10 years since she won the VMA for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards. Fresh off the release of her latest album Lover, Taylor Swift is sharing an excerpt from her diary.

The 31-year-old bombshell couldn't believe it when her idol and her husband came to see her performance to a packed crowd at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Beyonce turned 38-years-old on Wednesday. And her husband Jay Z was the first to share a post for his successful wife with whom he has three children: Blue, Rumi and Sir.

She released her concert film Homecoming on Netflix on April 17, 2019. And fans were outraged that Beyonce was shut out of Sunday's Creative Arts Emmys - including her cameraman.