Shearer Breaks Goal Scoring Record
Record goal : Newcastle United's Alan Shearer celebrates breaking Jackie Milburn's goalscoring record during their English Premiership soccer match against Portsmouth at St James' Park, Newcastle. Saturday 4th February 2006. Newcastle won the game 2-0. It was this week too, that Newcastle's manager Graeme Souness was sacked for a string of bad results.

RAF Goes Pink Partying
Royal Air Force Lyneham went 'Partying Pink' all in aid of Breakthough Breast Cancer and raised a staggering £500. A charity evening was organised in memory of a Flight Lieutenant who worked in Supply Wing at RAF Waddington who died of Breast Cancer at just 28 years old. Fancy dress costumes included the Pink Ladies from Grease, pink rabbits and fairies. Everyone who attended wore an item of pink. Some of the more daring individuals went in full pink fancy dress. More...

100th Repatriation from Iraq
This image issued by Britain's Ministry of Defense shows the coffin of the 100th member of the British armed forces to be killed in Iraq, being repatriated, at RAF Brize Norton, England, Wednesday, 8th February 2006. Corporal Gordon Pritchard, 31, a married father of three from Edinburgh, was killed when the Land Rover he was traveling in was hit by a roadside bomb in Um Qasr, Iraq. He died instantly and three other soldiers were injured, one seriously.

Record Snowfall in USA
A dog named Ken peaks up above the snow at River Meadow Farm in Windsor, Conneca., 12th February 2006. A major storm slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast states with nearly 2 feet of windblown snow, nearing record levels as it blacked out thousands of customers and shut down air travel from Washington to Boston.

Olympic Silver for Local Pewsey Girl
Shelley Rudman won the silver medal in the women’s skeleton at Winter Olympics 2006. The 24-year-old Wiltshire girl, Wiltshire's Ice Queen, produced the performance of her life to make up two places and more than a quarter of a second on her two closest rivals. She said: “I just can’t believe it. I’m so shocked. It feels really surreal ” Silver medal winner Shelley Rudman, from Great Britain, centre, celebrates with gold medal winner Maya Pedersen, from Switzerland, right, and bronze winner Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards, from Canada at the finish of Women's Skeleton at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games at Cesana Pariol, Italy, 16th February 2006. Full report: Shelley's Sled to Silver