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Why would the world No1, an incredible athlete in his mid-30s, want to get vaccinated against a virus which can do him little harm?

WHEN my daughter at the age of 24, and while staying with us on Skye, made the decision to end her life – she was suffering from anorexia and other problems – by chance I found her tucked away in her bedroom one afternoon. Surrounded by pill packets and some alcohol she had left a note saying that she was sorry but she could not cope with life any longer. She wanted peace. In great distress I summoned help and she was taken away to hospital where resuscitation processes were set up and her deep unconsciousness abated. When I saw her later that day she was horrified and bewildered that...

Wimbledon Served as a Military Camp and Pig Farm During World War II The tennis club's center court even took a direct hit from a 500-pound German bomb. Author: The tennis club's center court even took a direct hit from a 500-pound German bomb. For 75 years, active-duty members of the British military have served as stewards at Wimbledon, the annual tennis “Championships” held at the storied All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club. Since 1946, uniformed men and women from the Royal Army, Air Force and Navy have volunteered at the two-week summer event by taking tickets, directing visitors ...

113 shares It was an age before a multiplicity of channels blurred things, a time when the splendid instrument of the voice itself was a central part of the job in a way it is not quite today. Like O’Sullevan and the others, Walker could convey drama by lowering his register, for all his high-octane excitement and the odd malapropism that were part of his legend. His autobiography, ‘Unless I Am Very Much Mistaken,’ sold like hot cakes. When he was being treated for cancer — which turned out to be not as serious as he feared nearly a decade ago — he told me: ‘I have had a bloody ma...

Murray Walker with James Hunt in 1983 Credit: GETTY IMAGES It is hard to imagine that the late hell-raiser James Hunt is currently surrounded by too many cherubim or seraphim, but whatever the afterlife looks like for Formula 1 legends, he has been joined in the great Grand Prix commentary box in the sky by his long-term broadcast partner Murray Walker, who died this weekend aged 97. Hunt retired from driving Formula 1 in the 1979 season and roared into the broadcast studio to join Walker: together they formed one of TV's great duos. The partnership ended too soon, with Hunt's untimely death ...