Chanelle Hayes displayed the reward of her weight-loss efforts as she picked up a birthday cake with a '40 and fabulous' topper from CherryCakes near her home in Wakefield on Friday.

JONATHAN McEVOY FORMULA ONE COLUMN: Could we be witnessing the mental disintegration of Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in these opening jousts of the season?

JONATHAN McEVOY: Bernie Ecclestone is not ready to step down from running Formula One, but when he does leave, young, energetic, articulate Christian Horner is the man to replace him.

F1 COLUMN - JONATHAN MCEVOY: It was a superlative race in Hungary but there was one nagging concern: the lack of Nico Rosberg’s form and Lewis Hamilton's dominance

JONATHAN McEVOY IN AUSTIN: Oh Noah! Lewis Hamilton faces another anxious night of waiting after Hurricane Patricia caused qualifying for the American Grand Prix to be called off.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Jolyon Palmer was the driver of the Australian Grand Prix. He raced tenaciously but scrupulously fairly to finish 11th on his debut.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Whether it is meant as such or not, Formula One's extraordinary squabbling over qualifying is a PR masterstroke.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MELBOURNE: There was a sense of deflation among British fans in Melbourne that Lewis Hamilton's title defence was skewered in the first half of the first race.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN SAKHIR: What if it had been Lewis Hamilton charging down on Sebastian Vettel in those tense last few minutes of the Bahrain Grand Prix? Or Max Verstappen?

JONATHAN McEVOY: McLaren should not broaden their activities at this point. They are struggling to find form in F1. I do not see how IndyCar could be anything other than a distraction.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Rather than waste time trying to punish the leaker, McLaren should hear the cri de coeur that represents large parts of the Woking workforce and sort this mess out.

JONATHAN MCEVOY: In the name of balance we should record the traditionalist’s argument that the ugly device, though not as repulsive as feared, gnaws at soul of open-cockpit motor racing.

From smashing England 5-0 in the Ashes to the Socceroos going down fighting in the 2006 World Cup, there is no doubt we're a great sporting nation.

With the Commonwealth Games soon to offer another stage on which the green and gold will shine, it's time to pick your favourite sporting moment of all time.

Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Sea set sail for the first time since its $80million makeover for a 14-day journey and arrived in Sydney on Monday.

The NSW government said the Streets as Shared Spaces program would help councils provide more space for people to walk, cycle and exercise safely. 

A man being transported to hospital after being involved in a motorcycle crash was propelled out the back of an emergency vehicle in Bangkok, Thailand but luckily avoided extra injuries.

Nikki Spiers, 31, who lives in London, is known for creating social media's viral emoji quizzes. She has posted a new challenge, asking puzzlers to name 20 capital cities using emojis.

Extensive searches have so far failed to uncover the bodies of Allan Cook, 59 and Anthony Vanharen, 42 who were both reported missing off separate waterways in the past fortnight.

Chrissie Beales, then 24, was on a yearlong holiday with her husband in Vatican City when she decided to send her Catholic father a postcard in 1977.

Karen Gee recently launched a line of designer scrubs for doctors and nurses in eight different colours after growing demand from healthcare professionals.

President Donald Trump opened up about his mother on Friday, saying she believed he could do no wrong, adding 'which is maybe why I ended up the way I ended up.'

Dame Joan Collins, 86, cut an elegant figure as she lead the nation in the 3pm toast for the heroes of the Second World War from the balcony of her London home today.

A man in Hanahan, South Carolina, was nearly crushed by a SUV after he was thrown from the car as it flipped over.

'Tinnie terrorists' Paul Dacre, Antonino Granata and Kadir Kaya were released from a Victorian prison on Friday after serving four years behind bars.

Margaret Hallford, who lives in Derbyshire, enjoyed a double celebration after recovering from coronavirus in time to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Video footage shows a 10-year-old bear named Takoda at the Oregon Zoo when he was caught splashing around and playing with a wooden block inside a 300-gallon tub of cool water.

Fred McQueen, of South Shields, was in South Tyneside Hospital, Tyne and Wear for weeks after first contracting a chest infection and later testing positive for Covid-19.

Danielle, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, struggled with her weight for years. She was cruelly bullied during her childhood, which caused her to become incredibly introverted - and she sought comfort in food.

Trump and the first lady laid a wreath at the national memorial to the fallen of the war in the National Mall, Washington D.C. Eight veterans, the youngest 96, had traveled to be there.

This week Bel advises a reader who doesn't know whether to walk away from her lazy, toxic brother.

A young boy has been flown to Brisbane after he was bitten by a snake in northern New South Wales.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL I can disclose that the couple's local postie was plunged into a sinkhole while doing his rounds in a van on the Bagshot Park estate where they live in Surrey.:

At 19, Jasmine Valentic was on track to fulfilling her dream of becoming a nurse. The teenager from Wellington was studying for her second year exams when she felt a pea-sized lump on her neck.

Woolworths has revealed the surprising list of ingredients that are flying off the shelves during coronavirus lockdown.  

Sunday could be the final day of New Zealand's tough but effective lockdown, credited as one part of a world-leading response to the spread of COVID-19.

The former heavyweight was famously close friends with Presley before the latter's death in 1977, and invited the legendary performer to watch him in action in secret.

A woman who allegedly had her labia burnt off as part of a genital modification procedure in NSW told a court she can no longer have sex or wear tampons. 

Two baby girls were switched at birth at the Timaru Hospital in New Zealand in March, 1990.

On the evening of May 8, 1945, Winston Churchill could have been forgiven a little merry-making.

Tricia Marie Griffin, 49, has filed a civil claim against Brisbane City Council saying the workplace was negligent in providing proper support and training to deal with the nuisance calls.

Legendary magician Roy Horn has died. He was 75. Horn,one half of the longtime Las Vegas illusionist duo Siegfried & Roy, had tested positive for COVID-19.

At a press conference Friday, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Vic Reynolds said William 'Roddie' Bryan may also face arrest over the murder of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, 25.

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal was told the teacher slept in a swag next to the student at a school camp in 2007 when he began to flirt with her.

Former President Barack Obama (seen left with then-President-elect Donald Trump at the White House in 2017) on Friday blasted the decision to drop the case against ex-NSA Michael Flynn (right).

New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian said she would be in no rush to lift coronavirus restrictions, and no major changes would be made for several weeks.

Opening up a trans-Tasman travel bubble could see stringent pre-travel health checks, an on-arrival test, no physical forms and social distancing on flights.

JOHN HUMPHRYS: Every leader of every country in the world had come together on a virtual network. Never had there been such a conference. But, yet, never had there been such a crisis.

The Australian mum revealed that she makes a huge amount of meals using 10 kilograms of chicken breast for only $79.

Several of her closest friends live near the vast £14.5million villa the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have moved into in star-studded Beverly Hills with its famed 90210 postcode.