63 h. ago 'Inspirational': Man completes 12 marathons in 12 days for two Manchester charities

Kamili Bell has run a whopping 312 miles in 12 days in the run up to Christmas to support two wonderful Manchester charities - including Freddie Flintoff backed MediCinema appeal

Sport

6 d. ago How surveillance technology and the 'Reddit Detective Agency' helped search for a killer

More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath

Events

8 d. ago Festival boss running 100 marathons across India in just 100 days

Hannah Cox, Kendal Calling’s Sustainability Director, only started running a year ago

Politics

1 week ago Trump's leaked schedule defies growing scrutiny over health as president's marathon days of meetings, calls go into late nights

Donald Trump's schedule shows the president as busy as ever amid reports that the president is 'facing the realities of aging.'

Politics

2 w. ago ‘I love when my enemies hate me’: how Hasan Piker became one of the biggest voices on the US left

Every day he broadcasts a marathon Twitch stream, airing his views to his three million subscribers. It has led to fame – and some fear – in a country ever more politically dividedHasan Piker calls it the bus driver test: “You get on a bus and you have 30 seconds to explain whatever online phenomena took place to the bus driver without them looking at you and going, ‘Get off the fucking bus.’” Most online discourse, no matter how heated, fails the test, he says – not least an incident last weekend, when someone on a Dublin street asked to take a picture with Piker, then held up a picture of his dog and shouted “Free Kaya!” Never mind the bus driver; trying to explain the significance of this particular event might well take the rest of this article, but the wider point is that there is a jarring overlap, or more often disconnect, between the online and offline worlds.Piker finds himself in this in-between space more and more these days. Until fairly recently, the 34-year-old was fam...

Politics

2 w. ago Sara Cox reveals loved one's devastating death as celebrity pals share support

The tragedy came just weeks after Cox raised more than £10 million by running five marathons in five days

Events

2 w. ago Former rugby star Kevin Sinfield raises £1.1m for MND by running 7 ultramarathons in 7 days for late teammate Rob Burrow

The former rugby league star has battled the British weather to run seven ultra-marathons over the past seven days in aid of motor neurone disease.

Economics

2 w. ago 'Unstoppable' Kevin Sinfield smashes £1m mark for MND as Prince William pays tribute

The marathon man has raised more than a million pounds in seven days

Politics

3 w. ago Kevin Sinfield plays a Corker as he smashes second ultra marathon in 2 days for pal Rob

Sinfield set out to raise £777,777 to help find a cure for motor neurone disease and he may have reached that target already after finishing second in SuperValu Pairc in Cork

Politics

3 w. ago BBC's Sara Cox says 'I'm sorry' as she addresses family concern

Sara Cox, who recently completed a mammoth five-day, 135-mile marathon challenge for Children in Need, discussed motherhood and how she managed to balance it with her career

Politics

3 w. ago Fitness influencer dies in gruelling food 'marathon' after binging on 10,000 calories a day

Dmitry Nuyanzin, 30, attempted to consume 10,000 calories a day but died in his sleep mere weeks after beginning his 'marathon' which he undertook to promote his weight-loss business.

Events

3 w. ago Fitness influencer dies in junk food 'marathon' after gorging on 10,000 calories a day

In a bid to promote his weight loss programme, fitness influencer Dmitry Nuyanzin set about consuming 10,000 calories a day. Sadly, mere weeks after beginning his 'food marathon', he passed away in his sleep

Events