Top Gear: Chris Evans offers ‘unreserved apology’ for Cenotaph stunt

BBC presenter Chris Evans has apologised during his Radio 1 Breakfast Show, after former Friends star Matt LeBlanc was filmed performing a car stunt near the Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall. The sequence – being filmed for the new series of motoring show Top Gear – is understood to have resulted in tyre marks around the monument, which is the focus of national mourning on Remembrance Sunday. Mar 14, 2016

Creator of meldonium ‘quite sure’ other top athletes using it

The Latvian creator of banned drug meldonium said on 10 March that he was quite sure other top athletes are – and should – use it. Latvia expressed sadness over the banning of the drug that has cast a pall over the career of tennis star Maria Sharapova, describing it as one of the most significant accomplishments of the tiny nations scientists. Mar 10, 2016