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With the Paralympic World Cup about to get underway in Manchester, Britain's summer Paralympic athletes have learnt that they will benefit from £19 million of Lottery funds in the run up to Beijing as part of a new investment strategy unveiled by UK Sport

Plans for hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games continued to advance today as the capital marked the seven year anniversary.

Monday marked exactly 100 days to go until the International Olympic Committee announcement of the host city for 2012.

Recent changes to the Board of UK Sport have ensured that it is now in an excellent position to determine the organisation's strategic direction and delivery over the coming years

Peter Keen, one of the country's leading experts in high performance sport, is to join UK Sport on a full time basis as part of its drive to move Team GB up the Olympic medal table in Beijing 2008 and, crucially, London 2012

Richard Caborn, Minister for Sport, has announced the appointment of Rod Carr and Chris Holmes as independent members of the Board of UK Sport

UK Sport and SportsAid, the sports charity, today unveiled a strategic partnership designed to offer enhanced support to emerging athletes across 35 sports in the build up to the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012

UK Sport today unveiled the line-up of its new Paralympic Performance Panel, designed to help individual sports reach their challenging performance targets on the road to the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Today's marking of 2012 days to go until London 2012 rams home the fact that one fifth of our total preparation time has gone.

The eight coaches who comprised the inaugural intake of UK Sport's Elite Coach scheme back in 2004 graduated in front of their peers at the World Class Coaching Conference last night