August 25 - A row between Athletics Kenya and the Kenyan Government seems set to cost Nairobi the opportunity to host the 17th All African Championships next April.

AUGUST 11 - SEBASTIAN COE has persuaded London Mayor Boris Johnson that the Olympic Stadium must be able to stage athletics after the 2012 Games, it was claimed today.

AUGUST 14 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has warned that athletics could end up with a reputation for drugs as bad as American football unless it starts to clean up its act.

August 25 - Jamaica's tourism indsutry is hoping the incredible success of Usain Bolt (pictured) and the country's sprinters will help persuade more travellers to visit the Caribbean island.

August 25 - A chorus of song and drums, and the blare of hundreds of vuvuzelas, greeted Caster Semenya when she arrived home from the World Championships at a packed OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.

August 25 - A group of Ethiopian athletes have fled from their hotel in London and failed to make their connecting flight to Edinburgh to compete at the  Falkirk Cup athletics event.

August 25 - Caster Semenya (pictured), the controversial world 800 metres champion, is set to be greeted by thousands of fans today when she lands back home in South Africa.

OCTOBER 17 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured) and Jonathan Edwards are among 372 key decision makers attending the first European Athletics Convention, which begins in Amsterdam today.

OCTOBER 18 - ATHLETICS will continue to be held at the Olympic Stadium after it has staged the 2012 Games, the sport's chief executive in Britain claims he has been promised.

OCTOBER 19 - UK ATHLETICS expect to confirm next month that the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, whose winners this year included Jamaica;s Usain Bolt (pictured), will again be held over two days next year.

 By Duncan Mackay 

October 20 - Russia today banned six athletes caught breaking doping rules on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, including European discus champion Darya Pishchalnikova (pictured), but have controversially backdated the suspensions so they will be able to compete at next year's World Championships in Berlin.

OCTOBER 21 - ENGLAND ATHLETICS are to make between 15 to 20 staff redundant in a restructuring of their nine semi-autonomous regional business units into a single national team designed to boost the sport in the build-up to London 2012, they announced today.

OCTOBER 27 - DAVID MOORCROFT (pictured), the former chief executive of UK Athletics, has been appointed as the chairman of a new personal fitness training company that is hoping to encourage people to get active in the build-up to London 2012, it was announced today.

SEPTEMBER 1 - UK ATHLETICS today announced that Dave Collins (pictured) had been sacked as the performance director after they failed to meet their medal target at the Beijing Olympics, as predicted on insidethegames yesterday.

AUGUST 17 - THE British Olympic Association (BOA) have today defended their treatment of 10,000 metres runner Kate Reed (pictured), who was forced to prove her fitness by running a time-trial on the eve of her race.