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.

Geraint Thomas joked he would be happy with an 'uneventful' Tour de France as long as a Team Ineos rider is stood on the top step in Paris at the end of the month.

Chris Froome has become the 2011 Spanish Vuelta winner because of Juan Jose Cobo's disqualification for blood doping. Cobo did not meet a deadline to challenge his three-year ban.

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.

Chris Froome's comeback from career-threatening injuries gathered pace in Paris as the four-time Tour de France winner targeted victory in next year's race.

Chris Froome has thanked French doctors for helping him get back on his bike after a horror crash last year left him with a broken leg. He posted a training video to Instagram on Thursday.

Chris Froome has shown off his spectacular recovery from his horror leg break 10 months ago as he posted a video pushing hard on the exercise bike.

On Wednesday, Boris was spotted in a Tesco Express in Islington, close to his former marital home. Rucksack on back, crumpled as ever, he was in a hurry and, according to a witness.

Retired engineer Richard Keedwell, 71, has spent nearly three years, attended seven court hearings and spent £30,000 of his sons' inheritance disputing a £100 speeding fine.

JANE FRYER: John Richards has impressively bushy eyebrows, two children, a grandchild, an amicably divorced wife, a passion for detective novels and a vast, exacting brain.

JANE FRYER: Over the past six decades his art has embraced everything from German mythology to astronomy; maths to comparative religion; politics to war. And all the while, become bigger.

JANE FRYER: Bob Weighton, of Alton, Hampshire neither drinks nor smokes. 'I tried one of my brother's cigarettes when I was 12, was sick and I've never smoked since,' he says.

JANE FRYER visited Emily Duncan, 42, and her husband, Henry, who live in Dumfries and Galloway. They own a flock of Valais Blacknose sheep, which have hairy black faces and comically fluffy coats.

JANE FRYER: Certainly it will be beautiful and awesome and, for those with binoculars and telescopes, there will be an awful lot to see.

JANE FRYER: By the time he was 23, Ronan O'Rahilly had fled his native Ireland for London, was running a successful club in Soho, The Scene and set up a record label.

Theresa May's radical plans for tackling the crisis was a big mistake, but she was right to identify provision of social care in our ageing society as one of the greatest challenges facing the country.

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.

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.

So this is it. We have arrived at the moment when Parliament can finally end this Brexit purgatory. Alternatively, they could continue to put petty politics before the national interest.

For the first time in 47 years, the country that gave the globe Magna Carta, parliamentary democracy, the industrial revolution and human rights, will once again be truly sovereign.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: An FA council meeting on October 24 looks like being pivotal to the proposed £600million sale of Wembley to Fulham owner Shahid Khan.

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 - 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.

Britain’s National Health Service has plainly been carefully targeted by internet highwaymen looking for easy victims. They did not choose the NHS because it was impoverished.

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: 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.

The songstress, 37, sings about living a life of purpose as she kisses and cuddles her daughter at the foot of a majestic waterfall in the new video. Beyoncé's song Spirit was released on July 10.

In a new video promoting the plant-based program 22 Days Nutrition, the songstress revealed she weighed 175 pounds on the very first day of Coachella rehearsals.

Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z, is celebrating a career first this week, as the song in which she is featured, Brown Skin Girl, has debuted on the Billboard Top 100.

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.

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 67-year-old made the revelation during an interview with Michael Strahan, which is set to air on Good Morning America on Wednesday.

Fabian, nine, from South Wales, Stephan, 10, who lives in Spain with his expat parents and Leo Noakes, 11, from Leicester feature in Channel 5's Kids in Drag: We're Fabulous, which airs tonight.

They were among the celebs who turned up decked out in their best and most imaginative costumes for the party at the Allbright in West Hollywood on Thursday evening.

RuPaul's Drag Race judge Michelle Visage and Giovanni Pernice will be channelling Madonna's Vogue as they perform a couples' choice.

'We held three screenings for the HFPA and almost no members attended,' Matsoukas told Variety in an interview published Thursday. Queen & Slim did not receive any Globe nominations this week.

Beyonce's dad Mathew Knowles accidentally prompted a viral conspiracy that Kris Jenner once interviewed a pre-teen Bey in the 1992 when he shared a #TBTclip on Thursday.

Beyonce sent Reese Witherspoon her entire Ivy Park x Adidas collection this week in a massive surprise delivery and Reese modeled the stunning items on Instagram, Wednesday.

Shane Watson took inspiration from Gigi Hadid and Olivia Colman for embracing this season's puffed sleeves trend. British style expert advises saving XXL volume for night time.

EXCLUSIVE: Vicky Morgan, 31, from the Wirral, was once a warfare specialist but told FEMAIL she finds her new career performing Brazilian Booty Lift treatments just as rewarding.

The rapper, 50, turned out for an afterparty at Tao nightclub in West Hollywood that evening, but his other half was no where to be seen.

Khloe Kardashian took to Twitter with cryptic posts blaming sister Kourtney for ruining her Oscar night with Kylie Jenner, on Monday.

Her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi died in a California helicopter crash alongside seven others on January 26. And on Thursday, Vanessa Bryant shared an excerpt of Kobe's 2015 documentary.