(IAAF) Birmingham, UK – Kenyan Micah Kogo won a thrilling sprint for the line ahead of Abera Kuma to set a new course record at the Bupa Great Birmingham Run Half Marathon on Sunday (21).  Kogo, who dominated the race almost from the start, breasted the tape at this IAAF Bronze Label Road Race in a time of 1:00:17 to deny his Ethiopian rival victory by two seconds... 

October 12, 2012   World Road Running title No. 5 for Zersenay Tadese (Getty Images) Birmingham, UK – Zersenay Tadese – winner of a fifth World Half Marathon World Championship title last weekend -will take part in the Bupa Great Birmingham Run, and IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, on 21 October. The 30-year-old Eritrean World record holder over the 13.1 mile distance,... 

Nottingham Post   A FRIEND of a woman seriously burned in a shop explosion says everyone who knows her is "praying God will make her healthy". Helen Desalegn was hurt when the blast blew the front off the Simba grocery shop in Alfreton Road on Thursday. She suffered 30 per cent burns and was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre. She was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital,...