This year's Sports Personality of the Year event will take place in Europe's largest television studio, right at the heart of BBC Sport's new home at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.

It is fantastic that one of the first major events to come out of the new site will be one of the BBC's longest running and best-loved flagship shows.

We've also launched the Unsung Hero Award, which is always my favourite moment of the night, when someone most deserving gets a chance to share the spotlight with the biggest names in sport.

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Today feels like another significant milestone on the journey to next year’s Olympics and Paralympics, as the Olympic Park hosts competitive sport for the first time, in the form of the basketball test event.

But this is just one event in a fantastically busy period for Olympic sport; both in terms of domestic test events and international championships.

Some of the test events have been quite low key, for instance the World Junior Rowing Championships at Eton Dorney last month.

Others are big international competitions in their own right, for instance last week’s Hyde Park Triathlon, where GB won gold in both the men’s and women’s race.

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Back in January we announced that we would be making some changes to our services because of a 25% reduction in the online budget.

One of the things we said we would stop doing is our daily on-demand sports news video bulletin.

Today will be the last day of the bulletin, and you may have noticed we have removed the link from the banner of our website.

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