AROUND this time every year it’s difficult to escape the various sporting lists of ‘ones to watch’ for the next 12 months.

A British-born Roman Catholic bishop who was asked to leave Argentina after making “deeply offensive” comments about the Holocaust arrived back in Britain today.

In a concession to ultraconservatives, Pope Benedict XVI plans to loosen restrictions on the old Latin Mass, used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernising reforms of the 1960s, a Vatican official said.