Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford have been named sportswoman and sportsman of the year by the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA).

Davis Cup hero Andy Murray and athletics icon Jessica Ennis-Hill are the frontrunners to collect this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year gong on Sunday night.

INTERVIEW BY MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill accepts that, through no fault of her own, some people might be deterred from voting for her because of the doping crisis engulfing athletics.

Andy Murray has picked up his second Sports Personality of the Year title after a successful year which saw him finish as world No 2 and help Great Britain to Davis Cup success in Belgium.

The three British sporting stars have put their years of mixed success behind them to combine for a special video with a Star Wars theme, coinciding with the release of the new blockbuster film.

The 26-year-old swimmer looked sensational in a plunging lace gown which flaunted her trim figure while track and field athlete Jessica, 29, went for a flirty prom-style frock

MATT LAWTON: Fortunately for the BBC, the public were rather more impressed with tennis ace Andy Murray than the sports personality of the year was with Tyson Fury.

MARTHA KELNER: The 29-year-old spoke passionately about feeling betrayed by the very people she should have been able to trust to protect her as a clean athlete.

Lewis Hamilton and Jessica Ennis-Hill's stellar sporting 2015 seasons have been recognised with nominations for the prestigious Laureus Awards.

Jessica Ennis-Hill remains confident she will be in good shape to defend her Olympic title despite only just returning to training after an achilles injury ruled her out of the indoor season.

Ched Evans served two and a half years of his five-year sentence, was released from prison to be ostracised from society, and now a judge has quashed his guilty verdict and ordered a retrial.

With 100 days to go until the opening ceremony in Rio, Britain's world and Olympic heptathlon champion said on Tuesday she already felt 2016 would be unlike any other year for her.

Olympic gold medallist JESSICA ENNIS-HILL credits her mum ALISON as key to her success. And with son Reggie on the scene, this support is more vital than ever as she focuses on Rio.

Anthony Joshua took a trip down memory lane when he caught up with fellow London 2012 gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill on Saturday.

Jessica Ennis-Hill faces a key test of her Olympic preparations in Germany this weekend when she competes in her first heptathlon since winning gold at last year's World Championships.

The Muller Anniversary Games takes place at London's Olympic Stadium this weekend as some of the world's best athletes prepare for the start of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The American dipped under the 28-year-old time of 12.21, clocking 12.20 seconds at the London Anniversary Games to break the record set in Stara Zagora by Yordanka Donkova.

Golden girl Ennis-Hill was not at her best in the throwing event in Rio but was able to jump up one place from third after registering a 13.86m throw.

The mother of British Olympic heptathlon athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has written her daughter a heart-warming letter as she tries to win her first Olympic medal this evening.

Andy Hill, who married the athlete in 2013, shared a photograph of the '#supermum' moments after she crossed the finish line in the 800m, the final round of the event.

Three of Great Britain's Olympic heroes, Justin Rose, Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis-Hill, returned home on Tuesday, but they did so in very different ways.

Sheffield athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill was pictured at London Heathrow Airport today, having achieved a heptathlon silver medal two years after the birth of her son Reggie.

Britain's bronze medal long jumper Greg Rutherford had an emotional reunion with his partner Susie Verrill and son Milo, while silver medallist Mark Cavendish also returned from Rio.

To carry on, or not to carry on: that is the question now haunting Jessica Ennis-Hill. The woman who won gold in London 2012 and became a symbol of all that was glorious about the Games.

The application Jessica Ennis-Hill made for a SportsAid grant as a 15-year-old has been revealed by the organisation's Twitter account on the day she announced her retirement.

MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill bowed out in her usual, understated fashion — posting a picture collage online showing the finest moments of what was a glittering career.

Experts predicted Ennis-Hill could earn at least double that after she called time on a stellar career that finished with Olympic silver in Rio, just two years on from having her first child, Reggie.

DALEY THOMPSON: Ennis-Hill would be among the five greatest British female athletes of all time and, had she not suffered a few injuries over the years, she could have been one of our best athletes in history.

The Olympic gold medallist has been called a ‘f****** whore’ and ‘a sl**’, while others have demanded that the Sheffield athlete apologise for ‘tarnishing Evans’s name’.

Jessica Ennis-Hill called time on her athletics career last week following the summer's Rio Olympics where she claimed a silver two years after giving birth to her first child, Reggie.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is set to be awarded her second World Championship heptathlon gold medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced Russian athlete Tatyana Chernova will be stripped of her title.

It was Reggie's bath time when Ennis-Hill found out she would finally be awarded the 2011 world championship heptathlon title which was stolen from her by a Russian drugs cheat.

Andy Murray's sensational year comes to a fitting conclusion today with a knighthood in the New Year's honours list – but he insists he doesn't want to be called 'Sir Andy'.

Two of Great Britain's greatest track and field athletes, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill, lead the list of sporting stars to be acknowledged in the New Year Honours.

Jessica, who announced her retirement in October last year after taking Olympic heptathlon silver in Rio, posted a photograph of two-year-old son Reggie holding a book announcing it.

Ennis-Hill is due to receive heptathlon gold from Daegu 2011 after she was upgraded from silver when Tatyana Chernova was stripped of her title following a doping offence.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill has called for 'standardised' arrangements to be put in place to support female athletes who want to have children.

The unit is part of a project led by the Department of Health and Social Care and is one of many to have been deployed across the country in response to local demands.

United dithered over whether to pursue a deal for the Canadian youngster, who was playing for Vancouver Whitecaps at the time, with the youngster eventually signing for the Germans.

Barcelona's vice-president Jordi Cardoner confirmed that many teams will partake in swap deals this summer with several having big squads and high earners they need to get off the books.

The centre-back has produced some impressive performances for the Championship side and was recommended to United by club legend Ryan Giggs, who has coached Rodon for Wales.

The French international only joined Juventus on a free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain last summer but has failed to nail down a regular starting place in Maurizio Sarri's side this season.

Use different-coloured tomatoes for this easy dinner that's perfect for warm summer evenings

Josie Lloyd-Wilson became a widow just eight weeks into her first pregnancy. So the heart-wrenching decision to have her husband's second child wasn't easy

Griff Rhys Jones needs to be on stage. 'I love, love, love being funny in front of an audience,' he says. 'I adore it.'

An adult party business called Exclusively Silks was launched at the property earlier this year, with events such as Naughty Burns Night' and 'Discovering Swinging'.

The appeal of follies is nothing new. They were created by British aristocrats who had time and money to splash out on mock castles, towers and monuments.

Happy Pinot Noir Day (yes, it really is a thing). I'm up for a bit of veneration - any excuse to celebrate the good things in life, and Pinot Noir is among the best

Traditional Sunday worship might be in decline but the number of people going to church regularly, worshipping where and when they choose, is rising

'I want to let him know what a wonderful thing he did,' Young says. 'Him standing up and saying, "I wouldn't mind if my child was gay" is just incredible,' the 40-year-old singer enthuses.