Button Signs For McLaren

Formula One world champion Jenson Button has signed on to drive for McLaren.

The 29 year old 'Frome Flyer' has signed a long term deal with the Woking based team, which see's him partner ex world champion and fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton. This is the first time two British world champions have started a season on the same team, since Graham Hill and Jim Clark drove together for Lotus in 1968.

Button said in a press release, '...life is all about challenges, and, most important of all, it’s about challenging yourself. So, although I won the World Championship with Brawn GP last year, and I’ll never forget that, I was always adamant that I wanted to continue to set myself fresh challenges.'

This new driver lineup is great news for British motorsport, but bad news for Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen, who has decided to leave the sport to focus on a career in rallying, after failing to find a drive for the 2010 season.

Raikkonen, who won the world championship in 2007, set his sights on joining McLaren, as he saw them as having a competitive, championship winning car, which he was without during what is now his last season in F1, and after the drive was taken by Jenson Button, there were no teams he wanted to drive for. There were a number of teams interested in signing Raikkonen, but the combination of his high wage demands and his need to drive in a competitive car meant only McLaren were on his radar.

Already, the 2010 season looks to improve on the last in every possible way.

Uni Work - Radio

The last uni work I posted on here was for TV, and now we turn to Radio! Just for you, here is my group's work on Radio, focusing on Remembrance Day... Enjoy!

Rememberence Day (VOX) by mattmansfield

Penalty Joy For Canaries

Norwich pressed through to the Johnstone's Paint Southern Section Semi Final (ridiculous name for a tournament by the way) with a penalty shootout victory over Swindon.

Both teams squandered chances throughout the game, but Norwich keeper Fraser Forster (on loan from Newcastle United) saved Craig Easton's penalty for the home team in the shootout.

With this save, Forster managed to scrape back some respect from the Norwich fans after his dreadful mistake gifted Leeds a victory last month.

Other results in the tournament (North and South Sections):

Accrington Stanley 3 - 2 Bury

Bradford 2 - 2 Port Vale (Bradford win 5 - 4 on penalties)

Chesterfield 1 - 3 Carlisle

Leeds United 3 - 1 Grimsby

Leyton Orient 1 - 1 Hereford (Hereford win 3 - 2 on penalties)

MK Dons 3 - 1 Northampton

Tommorow sees the final match of the Quarter Final Stage of the tournament, Southampton vs Charlton

German Goalkeeper Dies

German international goalkeeper Robert Enke has died in a suspected suicide in Germany, after being hit by a train at a level crossing earlier today.

The Hannover 96 goalkeeper, 32, won 8 international caps for his country and was expected to be named as number 1 keeper in Germany's world cup squad, for next summer's tournament in South Africa.

A press conference is sceduled for tommorow (Wednesday) to shed more light on the tragedy.