Steve Clarke is the man to lift the gloom surrounding the Scotland national team, says former national boss Craig Brown.

Clarke, 55, has left Kilmarnock to replace Alex McLeish, signing a three-year deal with the Scottish FA.

"To manage your national team is the ultimate accolade you can get and is arguably the best job in management, managing your country," said Brown, who oversaw 70 Scotland games between 1993 and 2001 and took the nation to the 1996 European Championship and 1998 World Cup.

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Hervé Renard (born 30 September 1968) is a French football manager and former professional player. He currently manages the Morocco national team.

He has previously been the manager of the Zambian national team, with whom he won the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations; he also won the competition in 2015 Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast, becoming the first coach to win two Africa Cup of Nations with different countries.

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University of Oxford is promising a "sea-change" in admissions, with plans for a quarter of students to come from disadvantaged backgrounds by 2023.

The university wants to tackle accusations that it is socially exclusive.

Oxford will soon announce that 60.5% of its most recent intake are from state schools - the highest since the 1970s.

This is ridiculous. Oxford University is one of the best universities in the world. It should be offering places to brightest and best students based on their academic ability. The bank balance of their parents is completely irrelevant.

Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.

Lauda, who underwent a lung transplant in August, "passed away peacefully" on Monday, his family said.

The legendary Austrian, one of the best-known figures in motor racing, took the title for Ferrari in 1975 and 1977 and McLaren in 1984.

For many, he will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.

A new generation of fans was introduced to Lauda in the acclaimed 2013 film Rush, which detailed his rivalry with British driver James Hunt, the 1976 world champion.

Niki Lauda obituary: 'A remarkable life lived in Technicolor'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/46781936

Vincent Kompany says he knew his time at Manchester City was over when he scored the spectacular winner against Leicester on 6 May.

At a parade to celebrate the club's domestic treble, 33-year-old Kompany said the time was "right" to leave.

"The moment that ball against Leicester went 'top bins', I knew I was done. I couldn't do anything better," he said.

The first woman to read the news on BBC television has died at the age of 93.

Nancy Wigginton, who was better known as Nan Winton, became the first female TV newsreader at the corporation on 20 June 1960.

There would not be a regular female newsreader until Angela Rippon joined the team on the flagship Nine O'Clock News in 1975.

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Kieffer Moore: Uncapped Barnsley striker in Wales training squad for Portugal

Torquay-born Moore, who qualifies through his maternal grandfather from Llanrug in Gwynedd, scored 19 goals this season as Barnsley secured promotion to the Championship.

Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud has signed a new contract with the club.

The 32-year-old Frenchman's new deal extends his stay at Stamford Bridge until the end of the 2019-20 season.