West Country sailor Pete Goss says conditions have been tough since he left on board a wooden fishing boat for Australia.

Aalborg coach Bruce Rioch on facing Man Utd in the Champions League

Playing a certain type of music can enhance the way wine tastes, research by psychologists suggests.

Singer and songwriter Jack Johnson on being famous, his latest album and why he loves not being recognised.

The BBC's Soutik Biswas talks to Patrick French, the biographer of Nobel Prize-winning writer VS Naipaul.

Notts County goalkeeper Kevin Pilkington believes a more relaxed approach is helping him produce the best form of his career.

John McEnroe's appearance in this week's Tennis Legends event may be his one and only outing in Belfast.

For 30 years Garrison Keillor has hosted an old-style weekly variety show on American radio. As a movie of the show, A Prairie Home Companion, is released in the UK, Keillor tells why the spoken word can still inspire in today's TV-dominated culture.

British singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas talks to the BBC News website on the release of her second album.

People become more "mellow" in response to negative emotions over their lifetime, research suggests.

Colin Montgomerie says a more relaxed approach to his golf these days could still land him a long-awaited first major title.

Snowboarder rises from Devon dry slope to world stage

Irish author John Banville, whose novel The Sea has won the Man Booker prize, talks to the BBC News website.

Singer Katie Melua speaks about the follow-up to her chart-topping debut album.

The views of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash have mellowed little as he prepares to retire.

Alastair Campbell's swearing e-mail was sent in error, he says, because he is "not very good at this e-mail Blackberry malarkey". Jon Yuill can sympathise.

Chloe Arnold tracks down the world's most expensive tea in Sri Lanka's plantations.

A London secondary school is having to reduce its timetable because it cannot recruit enough teachers.

Spain's signature wine, long sneered at by the cognosecnti, is in the midst of a revival.

Full text of the Queen's speech at the opening of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain.