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Breadmaker Max Leonard rises to the occasion

After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again.

A fascinating celebration of how ice has shaped human existence

Forget fire — civilisation was built on ice, according to this charming and quirky history. Review by Gerard DeGroot

Max Leonard takes the reader on a twisting journey as explores human history through an icy lens

Both a biography and a well-illustrated insight into what cycling was like during Jobst Brandt's life

Book review: Climbers, by Peter Cossins

The 1910 Tour has given rise to no end of nonsense, not least the claim that Octave Lapize called the race organisers assassins as he crossed the Col d’Aubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.

Glenbrook South track and field coach Kurt Hasenstein is no stranger to challenges. In his 30-plus years of coaching at Glenbrook South High School, he has taken on many of them. But now he might be taking on his toughest one of all. As part of the Titan Track Invite on Friday, May 6, he will attempt to assemble as many alumni, athletes and coaches as possible from the past 50 years of GBS track for a big reunion. Degree of difficulty: about 9.5.

Driver scared off attackers on pushbikes