The Team Ineos principal thinks it is time to look at extra measures such as special Kevlar-based clothing to protect riders at the point of impact following Chris Froome's accident.

MATT LAWTON ON THE COL DU TOURMALET: Owner of Ineos Jim Ratcliffe must have sat in the team car on Saturday afternoon and wondered if he had just bought a cycling team in decline.

Newcastle United has a tradition where players and staff greet one another with a handshake every morning but manager Steve Bruce admitted: 'We've stopped on the advice of the doctor'.

Team Ineos sporting director Nicolas Portal has tragically passed away at the age of 40. A statement from Team Ineos said that the Frenchman died at his home in Andorra on Tuesday afternoon.

During an alarmingly meandering and sweary after-dinner speech for online LGBT newspaper PinkNews earlier this month, Dawn Butler declared that almost all giraffes were gay.

With panic-buying leaving empty shelves on supermarket floors, the Daily Mail has gone to the UK's biggest loo roll factory, Essity in Manchester, to see if its ready to meet demand.

JANE FRYER: Every weekend and holiday, Cameron Newham is out from dawn to dusk, in rain, sun, hail and biting winds, fulfilling his quest to photograph England's rural parish churches.

A.N WILSON: Pays tribute to wine connoisseur Auberon Waugh in time for the republish of the 1980s Waugh On Wine - where Auberon says wine should have 'bizarre side-tastes' including rotting wood.

There is no hiding from the truth. This was a dreadful night for the Conservatives, Brexit and a future for this country that had looked remarkably bright.

Anyone tuning in to the airwaves over the weekend might be forgiven for believing Theresa May lost the election, while Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to a resounding victory.

If Corbyn truly believed in democracy, he’d roundly condemn today’s ‘Day of Rage’, organised by the storm troops of the hard Left to bring London to a halt and help overthrow the Government.

Businesses were exultant. Billions of pounds in investment funds, kept on hold while uncertainty prevailed, seemed about to be unleashed. The pound perked up and share prices rose.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This was far more than just a bad and humiliating day for Theresa May and her deal. It was the day Brexit itself was pushed to the very brink.

Exactly 1,000 days ago today, the British electorate went to the ballot box for the EU referendum. How long ago it now seems! Today the dream, if not dead, is on life support.

Her Withdrawal Agreement Bill is seemingly dead in the water, and as events in Downing Street yesterday so brutally demonstrated, her support and authority have evaporated.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The Premier League are set to bankroll the Professional Footballers Association for another three years despite concern over Gordon Taylor's control.

CHARLES SALE: The European Tour have thrown in the towel in their attempts to stop Ryder Cup stars ambush marketing timekeeper sponsors Rolex on the official team photographs.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: It has emerged on the eve of the Ryder Cup that European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley earned a salary of £2.78million last year.

As yesterday’s special European Union summit made clear, this country’s divorce from Brussels is likely to be painful. It is a time when Britain needs a strong, clear-headed and resolute Prime Minister.

We are in alarming, uncharted territory. Every vote counts as almost never before. The Mail on Sunday’s Survation poll now shows the Tory lead down to just one per cent.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The giant aftershocks of the EU referendum continue to run through British politics, shaking pillars that once seemed wholly firm, demolishing safe walls.

Unforeseen events have utterly transformed the political weather. First came the Election result. Then came the abiding, endlessly painful tragedy of Grenfell Tower.

It is hard to view Boris Johnson's Brexit outburst as anything other than a hostile act, coming less than a week before Mrs May sets out her own Brexit vision in a speech in Florence.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s camp threatens to destroy the fragile peace so recently achieved by the Prime Minister.

If ever there was a time for a Prime Minister to take charge of events, still the storm and impose calm, this is such a time... and who better than vicar's daughter Theresa May.

Many will have cause to be grateful in future for this necessary and compassionate move, for which The Mail on Sunday has been campaigning since the beginning of this year.

It is hard to justify the vast differences between the Western way of life and the conditions endured by those who live in the poorer parts of the world.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The tumult and the shouting may at last be dying away. The time for slogans and cheap jibes is over. Dogma is giving way to practicality.

The Mail on Sunday urges MPs to end the chaos and indecision, recover their good sense, and support the Prime Minister. Loyalty has never been so important.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Once again the country faces a moment of decision, but most of our elected, salaried politicians are not prepared to take that decision.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, today goes public to say Seumas Milne - Jeremy Corbyn's closest courtier- stands 'no chance' of passing Whitehall checks.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: If Mr Farage insists on pursuing his impossible dream of a perfect Brexit, he will not get it.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Boris Johnson is said to have been unhappy about imposing his lockdown on the country, and that his naturally liberal instincts are troubled by it.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Our hearts go out to the frontline staff in the NHS who face dangers as great as any endured by soldiers in battle.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Leaks from inside Whitehall suggest that senior Ministers, in the absence of Boris Johnson, are reluctant to take any major decisions.

Sara Vahabi said in court docs that she attended the September 23, 2018 show- which was in their On the Run II tour - and left her purse at a tent for check ins prior to going into the venue.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z enjoyed some sweet family time with a beach picnic on Sunday. The couple were spotted with their twins, Sir and Rumi, one, while lounging around in The Hamptons.

She's on her way to becoming a pop superstar. So Normani paid tribute to some of her own idols in the magnetic new music video for her single Motivation, which came out on Friday.

Kanye famously jumped on stage in New York to declare that Beyonce should have won the Best Female Video prize which had just gone to Swift (pictured).

It's been 10 years since she won the VMA for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards. Fresh off the release of her latest album Lover, Taylor Swift is sharing an excerpt from her diary.

The list of highest paid female entertainers in the music industry for 2019 has been released by Forbes, and the results pack some surprises. Taylor Swift led the way by over $100 million.

Taylor Swift may forgive, but apparently never forgets. The singer referenced the moment when Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech at the same show 10 years prior.

Beyoncé celebrated her 38th birthday a few days early with husband Jay-Z backstage at the Made In America Festival in Philadelphia on Sunday.

The 31-year-old bombshell couldn't believe it when her idol and her husband came to see her performance to a packed crowd at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Beyonce was left speechless when her husband Jay Z surprised her with an early birthday cake at his Made In America Festival ahead of her 38th year around the sun later this week.

The actor splashed the cash to a tune of $300K to celebrate his milestone year at the celeb-favorite, ultra lavish beachside Ani Private Resort in the Dominican Republic.

Beyonce turned 38-years-old on Wednesday. And her husband Jay Z was the first to share a post for his successful wife with whom he has three children: Blue, Rumi and Sir.

Aaron Paul just celebrated the big 4-0 and is feeling extra grateful. Having just returned from his birthday trip, the Breaking Bad star took to Instagram Wednesday to say 'thank you' to everyone involved.

The costume designer turned reality TV star who was on season four of Project Runway died from from a heart attack on Thursday, according to TMZ.

Beyonce does not often show her children. But in the singer's new Lion King documentary, which was titled Beyonce Presents: Making The Gift and aired on Monday, her family is included.