The selectors have kept faith with Ian Bell despite a poor tour of India, with Owais Shah providing batting cover.

BBC: Vaughan misses out on tour place

Ian MacDonald had indeed made but a poor hand of the dyeing.

NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring

Following the Care Quality Commission's recent report on what it called "alarmingly" poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week's Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people.

BBC: 'Shame on us nurses'

According to the BBC's Ian MacWilliam in Kabul, Baghran lies in a poor, remote and mountainous region, which would have difficulty supporting large numbers of fighters at the best of times.

BBC: Afghans 'negotiating Omar handover'

Ian Keatley and Paul Warwick swapped early penalties before impressive Barry Murphy waltzed through some poor tackling to score Munster's first try.

BBC: Munster 25-10 Connacht