This year the Loughborough International takes place on Sunday 20th May and we'll see a great line up of athletes competing, but also a number of coaches taking an opportunity to develop as team staff members and operate at a major championship.

The last affiliation year saw a record number of more than 121,000 athletes registered for an England Athletics competition licence plus the associated benefits by their clubs. And since April this year’s numbers are running even higher – make sure you are part of the action, including the special member benefits such as exclusive offers from Sweatshop.

Sheffield Running Club have achieved the England Athletics club accreditation award for adult only clubs.  The club applied to reaccredit in Jan 2012 and work hard to achieve the award in 3 months.

There are less than two weeks to go until the Bupa London 10,000 on Sunday 27 May – round two of the 2012 runbritain Grand Prix.

Since the 2010 pilot a number of athletics clubs in teh Sussex Atheltics Network have implemented the Athletics 365 programme to complement their weekly club coaching sessions. For several of these clubs Athletics 365 now provides the building blocks of introductory athletics coaching for young athletes.

Sprinter Inna Eftimova seems certain to miss the London Olympics after she tested positive for human growth hormone somatropin at the world athletics championship in South Korea last year, the Bulgarian said on Friday.

Double world silver medallist Walter Dix will miss Sunday's showdown against British sprinter Dwain Chambers in England because of a tight hamstring.