Cieran Kelso, seven, who lost his legs after suffering meningitis as a baby has been given a new lease of life thanks to prosthetic flippers.
Cieran, from Northwich, Cheshire is now able to swim thanks to flippers which fit onto the end of his prosthetic legs.
His family were inspired by seeing similar flippers on an injured dolphin and raised £8,000 to get a customised set for Cieran, whose next ambition is to swim with dolphins.
Yesterday Kelly Slater became the first pro surfer to confirm while still on tour that the sport had a recreational drug problem. A “rampant†one, he told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
The sport has had no shortage of former pros saying the same thing, most recently Gary Elkerton, who admitted in his autobiography that he almost died of an overdose himself in 1985.
And the overdose death of Andy Irons, alone in a hotel room in Texas on his way home from a contest in November 2010, was the most tragic confirmation possible, one from which the sport is still struggling to  … More
It has been a rough few days at Huntington Beach-based Quiksilver, where broad-reaching cuts affected team riders, approximately 30 staffers, and entire brands. The cuts were made during a multi-day process, which forced this article to be taken down as members of the Quiksilver umbrella of brands had not all been notified when we originally published this piece this morning.
On the team front, the decision was made to cut many athletes, while keeping   … More