Family and friends have paid tribute to a Walker "role model" who taught judo for decades across Newcastle's East End - and who even refereed the first ever judo bout at the Commonwealth Games.

Fifteen-year-old Taylor Peercy has come home with her fair share of black eyes, scratches and bruises. But the Rincon High School sophomore isn't getting into fights in the schoolyard, she is chasing ...

The French judoka to add to a collection of world and European titles, arrived in China two days ago to fulfil the honoured role and has compared this Youth Olympic Games to London 2012, where she won ...