Four hundred athletes from 13 countries are competing in sports including table cricket, bowls and football in the World Cerebral Palsy Games hosted by Nottingham City Council in a newly opened £16m redeveloped sports centre from 9th-16th August. Cerebral Palsy Sport is the country’s leading national disability sports organisation supporting people with cerebral palsy to reach their sporting potential.

Talented Portuguese teenager João Girão singled himself out as a golfing star of the future after beating off competition from some of the game's top up-and-coming players to claim a deserved victory in the 2015 McGinley Junior Cup at Quinta do Lago. Girão, 16, a part of Portugal's team that was successful in Division Two at the 2015 European Amateur Team Championships in Poland last month, carded an impressive two-under-par round of 70 on Quinta do Lago's renowned Laranjal course to clinch the overall gross title at the famous resort in the Algarve.

Land Rover, a Worldwide Partner of Rugby World Cup 2015, has surprised a lucky young resident of Solihull with the news that he will be an official Mascot at the Tournament. William Cartwright recently had an unexpected visit from a former Rugby World Cup star as his training session with Silhillians RUFC was interrupted by former England International Paul Sackey. 

British Athletics have confirmed Martyn Rooney would take an individual spot and represent British Athletics at the World Championships in Beijing, China in August 22-30. Following the submission of a successful appeal Rooney has been added to the team in the 400m.

Ahead of the new 2015/16 football season, Scout7 has launched a new video scouting and analysis app within its industry-leading Intelligent Sports Framework (ISF) application, which is being used at 150 professional clubs worldwide. During the last six months, the Innovation Birmingham Campus-based football technology company, whose clients include Chelsea, Manchester City, Barcelona, Paris SG, Juventus and Borussia Dortmund, has invested heavily in its video content infrastructure.

As well as showcasing its talent with the matches and helping to develop football at the grassroots level in Singapore, the Premier League sought to help the wider game in Asia with a workshop during the Barclays Asia Trophy 2015. Representatives from the Asian Football Confederation, its member associations and its leagues and clubs were in Singapore to learn about the strategies and programmes in place at the Premier League and the three clubs competing in the Barclays Asia Trophy, Arsenal, Everton and Stoke City.