SPECTACULAR EVENT: The free festival which brought you 14,000 people dressed as Where’s Wally, 1,500 bouncing on space hoppers, a custard pie throwing championship, a rainbow disco and hundreds of street performers from all over the world, celebrates its 10th Birthday this July. 

The owner of the JD Sports chain today said it managed to grow sales over the past month despite slowing spending and the impact of the London bombings.

Takeover talk surrounded the JD Sports chain today after its founder slashed his shareholding nearly in half.

Police in the North have seized a consignment of counterfeit designer and sporting clothes believed to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.