183 medals were won by Great Britain at the 1988 Paralympics in Soul - 64 Gold, 66 Silver and 53 Bronze.

185 days to go to the Start of the Olympic Games.....

...This is also the number of points scored by Heather Fell in the shooting discipline of the Modern Pentathlon at the Beijing Olymics in 2008. The Great British Athlete went on to take the silver medal.

This week in 1905 the world’s largest diamond was found in a South African Mine. The 3,106-carat diamond was given to Edward VII as a birthday present and cut into two stones which were then used in the British Crown Jewels. In 1935 canned beer made its first appearance in Richmond Virginia. On the 27^th January 1945 Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Russian soldiers. Ten years later, on the 24^th of January, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.