Motor Sport: Richard Burns completed a second successive triumph when he won the Rally of Britain, the final world championship race of the season, yesterday.
The 28-year-old driver won by one minute 48 seconds in his Subaru Impreza to clinch a career-best second place overall in the World Drivers' Championship.
Burns's third win of the season - and second in a row - came after a devastating display in the forests of Wales.
Team-mate Juha Kankkunen was second with Finnish countryman Harri Rovanpera third - almost five minutes adrift - in his SEAT Cordoba.
Finland's Tommi Makinen, who pulled out of the race earlier yesterday, clinched an unprecedented fourth successive drivers' world title at the preceding round.
Snooker: Mark Williams shattered Jimmy White in Bournemouth last night to deprive the game's most popular player of a quarter-final place in the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship.
And with fellow legend Steve Davis going down to defending champion John Higgins it was a bad night for the fans' favourites.
However, White will be kicking himself until Christmas for not scoring a confidence-boosting victory over the world number three from Wales.
He led 7-4 and 8-6, missed chances to kill-off his out of touch rival and eventually went down on the final pink of a deciding 17th frame.
"I honestly haven't got a clue how I'm still in the tournament," said Williams who now meets fellow Welshman Darren Morgan for a place in the semi-finals. "Jimmy should have finished me off."
Motor Sport: Williams technical chief Patrick Head and former designer Adrian Newey have been acquitted in the appeals trial into the 1994 death of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna.
Senna, a three-time world champion, died when his Williams-Renault car slammed into a concrete wall during the San Marino Grand Prix.
The prosecution had alleged that a poorly modified steering column broke as the Brazilian driver entered a curve, causing him to lose control.
Newey, now with the McLaren team, Head, team owner Frank Williams, and three race officials were originally exonerated in December 1997.
But prosecutors had renewed their request for one-year suspended sentences for Newey and Head, arguing the pair were to blame for the steering column.
But Bologna court president Francesco Mario Agnoli cleared Head and Newey after judging that the accusations levelled at them contained "no proof of blame".
The court found that a series of factors contributed to Senna's accident, including the speed at which the car was travelling and the unevenness of the track.
