Bradley Wiggins took possession of the Tour de France race leader's yellow jersey after a dominant performance from Team Sky today, capped by a stage seven success for fellow Briton Chris Froome.

Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal abandoned the Tour de France ahead of stage seven today.

Defending champion Cadel Evans and rival Bradley Wiggins successfully negotiated a crash-strewn first week of the Tour de France as some of their rivals for the Paris podium saw their hopes come to an end on stage six to Metz.

Dan Martin’s Garmin-Sharp team have endured more than most in the opening week of the Tour de France but matters worsened yesterday when their team manager Jonathan Vaughters was taken to task before the stage start in Rouen about reports in a Dutch newspaper that some of his riders had received six-month bans after confessing to doping.

Irish duo Nicolas Roche (Ag2r La Mondiale) and Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp) survived another day of carnage at the Tour de France yesterday but world champion Mark Cavendish wasn’t so lucky as he crashed heavily inside the final three kilometres on the run-in to the finish in Rouen.

Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp) and Nicolas Roche (Ag2R La Mondiale) steered clear of trouble on yesterday’s second stage of the Tour de France and crossed the line in the same time as stage winner Mark Cavendish (Sky Procycling).

Mark Cavendish today won a first Tour de France stage as world champion and a 21st of his career.

Britain’s Mark Cavendish won the men’s road race after a dramatic sprint finish at the World Championships in Copenhagen.

ANDRE GREIPEL denied Mark Cavendish in a thrilling sprint finish to win stage 10 of the Tour de France, a 158km run from Aurillac to Carmaux.

Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford’s ambition was vindicated today as Geraint Thomas set up a first Tour de France stage win for the British squad and Norwegian prodigy Edvald Boasson Hagen.

MARK CAVENDISH yesterday scorched to the 16th Tour de France stage win of his career before hinting at the demons which lie beneath his combustible personality.

Great Britain's Mark Cavendish today scorched to the 16th Tour de France stage win of his career before hinting at the demons which lie beneath his combustible personality.

Hell’s Kitchen champ Jennifer Ellison cooked up her own fun with a glitzy London bash to celebrate her 21st birthday last night.

Hell's Kitchen runner-up Matt Goss has hit out at host Angus Deayton, saying he was the wrong man for the job.

The competition is hotting up in Hell’s Kitchen after “pub landlord” Al Murray was shown the door ahead of this weekend’s finale.

Hell’s Kitchen lost another celebrity trainee chef today when former Coronation Street and Bad Girls star Amanda Barrie walked out.

Abi Titmuss and Edwina Currie are among the celebrities taking part in new Gordon Ramsay reality show Hell’s Kitchen.