CHRIS FOY AT THE AJ BELL STADIUM: Exeter extended their lead at the top of Pool Two of the Heineken Champions Cup with a close-fought 22-20 victory over Sale courtesy of Stuart Hogg (middle).

GRAEME CROSER AT CELTIC PARK: The past seven days have seen Leigh Griffiths locked in a personal battle with Finn Russell for custody of the back pages.

Russell will not feature in the remaining games, against France on Sunday and Wales in Cardiff on March 14, as it is feared his arrival would detract from preparations for two games only six days apart.

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Don't we ever learn? The marquee events, the marquee players, don't care about our wish for a northern powerhouse and FIFA will be no different.

Ed Sheeran was celebrating the launch of his new venture alongside a host of his friends, throwing an epic party on Sunday night at his new bar Bertie Blossoms.

Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch took a rare night off from parenting duties as they headed to Ed Sheeran's launch of his new bar Bertie Blossoms on Sunday.

The singer turned publican has just opened Bertie Blossoms, on West London's Portobello Road, with the venue named in honour of his wife Cherry Seaborn.

Prince Harry, 35, was all smiles as he arrived at a school in Nottingham to mark World mental Health Day. He first visited Nottingham Academy in November 2017 with wife, Meghan Markle, 38.

EXCLUSIVE: Expert genealogists have looked into the intriguing links between the Suffolk star, 28, and New Jersey-born Frank Sheeran - who actor Stephen Graham claimed was Ed's distant uncle.

Sarah and Daniel Hancock married in a whirlwind Las Vegas ceremony in April, eight months after meeting on TikTok. The couple are thought to be the first to meet and marry through the social media app.

Earlier this month, Tones And I beat the record set by Ed Sheeran for the most weeks in the number one position on the ARIA Singles Chart. 

Ed Sheeran has left Instagram for the foreseeable future.

Pop sensation Ed Sheeran has been granted permission to turn his upmarket London restaurant into a pub despite neighbours having previously complained about noisy punters.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Of course Emma Watson's 'self-partnering' is open to mockery and caricature but, I say go for it.

Sen. Paul had suggested the two bury the hatchet over a beer, but Gov. Christie told a radio audience that 'if I find myself down in Washington, I'll certainly look him up, but I don't suspect I'll be there anytime soon.'

On Friday, the Republican lawmaker from Kentucky shared a Snapchat video of himself learning how to play Liar's Poker - a game played with dollar bills - from the debauched social media star.

Paul is also a contender for the White House and is aggressively opposed to provisions of the Patriot Act that give the feds access to Americans' phone records so they can look for ties to terrorists.

Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is the second high-profile member of President Trump's party to suggest the president may not run for re-election in 2020.

Republican Senator Rand Paul admitted Monday he didn't qualify to be tested for the coronavirus even though he received one and got a positive result.

Some MasterChef Australia fans might think that Poh Ling Yeow has the competition in the bag this season.

Experts have slammed a 'misconception' that one single scientist was the 'architect of the lockdown' and single-handedly convinced the government to introduce drastic social distancing measures.

US and Canadian researchers said the transmission risk was only reduced by about 1.5 per cent for every degree Fahrenheit above 77F (25C). They analysed 370,000 cases of the virus.

The Mayor of London has come under heavy fire for failing to increase capacity on the Tube ahead of an expected rise in passengers as the Prime Minister looks to ease people back to work.

BY RIATH-AL-SAMARRAI: Brooks Koepka said in October that theirs wasn't much of a rivalry and he was right. Then. But now? In four tournaments since, McIlroy has gone 3-1-4-3.

Rory McIlroy would rather postpone the Ryder Cup until 2021 than play it this year without fans. The first two major championships of the year - the Masters and the US PGA - have already been postponed.

The Bodak Yellow artist performed to a packed house at KAOS Nightclub. She also opted for Poison Ivy as her Halloween inspiration for another costume she posted to Instagram.

She blew threw a cavalcade of Halloween costumes this week. And on Friday Kylie Jenner treated her 150 million Instagram followers to a glimpse at yet another one of her glamorous getups.

Halloween may be over, but Kim Kardashian West is still sharing her family's costumes.On Sunday, the 39-year-old reality star took to her Instagram to share yet another set of Halloween costumes.

White witches from around the world are taking to Instagram to reveal the truth behind their mystical lifestyle, where they share everything from their outfits to spells on trendy social media accounts.

Mary Coker, a Broward County Public Schools official who got laughs dressed as a flasher at a Halloween party in what appears to be a school office with kids present, is now facing consequences.

The 21-year-old daughter of Lionel Richie shared a pretty pinup photo on Sunday where she had on a string bikini while on the beach. She was last seen with Scott on Halloween.

Akim Aliu, a Nigerian-born hockey player, has revealed another racist episode in which a minor league equipment manager dressed in blackface at a team Halloween party in 2011.

EXCLUSIVE: Once he had come round after emergency surgery, Ben Morgan asked the surgeon two pressing questions; would he ever play again and could he make it back in time for the World Cup?

Martin Johnson has waded into the debate about England’s refusal to pick players based overseas with an emphatic endorsement of the RFU policy which has divided opinion.

SARAH VINE: Fiona Bruce is almost unique among her generation of high-profile female presenters in that she has never - so she says - succumbed to the temptation of Botox.

Dolly Parton, 74, is threatening to pose for the cover of Playboy Magazine - more than four decades since she last graced its pages. Sex and the older woman is officially a phenomenon.

SARAH VINE: First of all: how are you both? I know no one ever asks, so I thought it best just to check. After all, it must be so hard for you, stuck in Los Angeles in rented accommodation.

SARAH VINE: Sunday was a very sad day for us. The mother of a dear friend passed away in hospital from Covid-19.

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTSWRITER: In September 2017, former Leigh Centurions director Andy Mazey, announced that he would be Swinton's new chairman. From then, changes were afoot.

Sophie Turner fueled pregnancy rumors on Thursday, when she stepped out in a silhouette obstructing ensemble for a Los Angeles outing with husband Joe Jonas.

Now that Greta Gerwig's Oscar-winning adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic is available to stream, eagle-eyed audiences have noticed a major error in a shot from the period film.

The 80-year-old pensioner contacted solicitors when she realised the destructive weed was in her garden, as it is illegal to let it grow in the wild. Preston City Council have paid her for damages.

The majority of Americans appear to still be adhering to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders even though lockdown measures have been lifted in most US states, new cell phone data shows.

Emre Can has bemoaned former manager Maurizio Sarri's decision to exclude him from the Juventus squad before the midfielder's £21million move to Borussia Dortmund.

KIT HOLDEN: With the Olympics and the Euros suspended and no end in sight to the freeze on other football leagues, there will be millions hoping to get some kind of fix from Germany.

As the country reveled in triumph on May 8, 1945, the streets of London were packed with overjoyed Britons weary from six years of war with the Axis powers in Europe.

One of the most bizarre moments at the 2020 Grammy Awards came when host Alicia Keys was roaming the aisles and fans caught a glimpse of a young man wearing skeleton face paint.

The performer won a Grammy back in 2014 for Best Musical Theater Album after originating the role of Lola in the Broadway musical adaptation of the movie Kinky Boots.

After wins against Georgia and Australia Wales are flying with Fiji and Uruguay to come. Wales have only gone unbeaten once in a World Cup Pool stage - back in 1987 when they ended third.

The Romanian seemed to cry as Ianis scored two to help his side beat Braga 3-2 at Ibrox. But he said: 'I wasn't crying. The reason it looked like there was tears in my eyes is because it was very cold.'