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Schools athletes set for ESAA finals in Blackburn

The culmination of most youngsters' winter racing programme takes place at Witton Country Park in Blackburn on Saturday
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Andy Vernon to make comeback at Carlsbad 5000

Double European medallist to race against a high-class field as he kicks off his 2015 campaign after injury
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Steph Twell returns to Antrim International

Former winners Steph Twell and Thomas Ayeko among athletes set for Saturday's Antrim International Cross Country
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Jonathan Edwards' most memorable Games moments

The triple jump world record-holder used a recent trip to The Olympic Museum as an opportunity to reflect on his top-10 Games memories
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Gemma Steel and Andrew Butchart on GB World Cross team

Euro Cross champion and Scottish National winner named in senior GB teams for the World Cross Country Championships in China
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Ellie Greenwood and Max King win IAU awards

World 100km champions named International Association of Ultrarunners athletes of the year
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Highs and lows of Prague

AW's editor explains how the plusses outweighed the minuses at the European Indoor Championships
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Age group changes included in proposals for 2016 UKA rule book

Rule change consultation period now open, with the alteration of age groups to bring British athletics in line with IAAF rules among the proposals
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Jo Pavey to go for Great Manchester Run hat-trick

European champion to contest her first major road race since 2012 when she returns to the streets of Manchester in May
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Modern-day Brunel

In the concluding part of our two-part feature on Brunel University, Dr Costas Karageorghis looks at the more recent years
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Tour of Tameside to return

Event to be reintroduced as a three-day running challenge in June
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson to make Great CityGames debut

Recently-crowned European indoor pentathlon champion set to contest the 200m hurdles and long jump in Manchester in May
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