Scotland on Monday

WELCOME to today's tasty news morsels, including SPORT, TELEVISION, BUSINESS and the INTERNET.

RED TOP REVIEW

Game, set and Murray
Despite the thrills and spills of yesterday's epic Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, The Sun today tries to squeeze the last bit of juice out Andy Murray's rise through the rankings – and the public's affections. The print edition of the paper has a chat with Andy's father, Will, about the two years following the young player's 'England taunt' during the 2006 World Cup. Online, you can catch up with all the analysis of the last two weeks at Wimbledon, and whether the pundits are still predicting a bright future for the Dunblane lad.

Where's the daddy?
The Sun also offers a stern warning to men across the land to get reproducing by the age of 35 or face the consequences – scientists have finally discovered that, just like women, men's body clocks are ticking fast once they hit their mid-30s, when their fertility begins a slow, steady decline.

The gift of life – all the way from Spain
A happier scientific revelation is reported in today's Daily Record, with the tale of three-year-old Jordan Harden from Wishaw, who was saved from leukaemia by stem cells taken from the umbilical cord of a baby in Barcelona. It is hoped this breakthrough treatment will do the job where chemo and bone-marrow transplants failed.


BUSINESS
New head at EMI

By Nathalie Thomas

MUSIC label EMI has appointed Elio Leoni-Sceti as chief executive of its recorded music division.
Leoni-Sceti joins the company from Reckitt Benckiser, the world's largest maker of household cleaning products, where he was executive vice-president for Europe.

He is understood to have seen off five other candidates for the role, which was decided by Terra Firma, the private equity group that bought EMI for £3.2bn, including debt, last year. Leoni-Sceti's appointment will see Terra Firma boss Guy Hands take a step back from the record label, assuming a non-executive function.

The job will be Leoni-Sceti's first foray into the music business. His background up until now has largely been in the chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors, after he started his career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble in 1988.


TELEVISION

By Fiona Leith

Wok on by
Move over, Ken Hom – here comes Ching-He Huang. In the first of this new cookery series, we meet the chef trying to convince us that much as we love phoning out for prawn crackers and lemon chicken, we can easily rustle up those takeaway classics ourselves.

Chinese Food Made Easy, BBC2, 8.30pm

7/7 remembered
To mark the third anniversary of the London bombings, this gripping documentary talks to the passengers who somehow managed to survive the attack – some completely unscathed – despite being on the tube train that was blown up on the Piccadilly line.

The Miracle of Carriage 346, Channel 4, 9pm


SPORT
Calm after the Wimbledon storm

By Martin Allen

There's a feeling of 'after the lord mayor's parade' today, as Rafael Nadal's epic Wimbledon victory over Roger Federer is followed by a fairly quiet programme of live action.

Federer's defeat means he failed to surpass Bjorn Borg's record of five consecutive Wimbledon titles, and Swedish tennis fans can celebrate that fact today on the first day of the Swedish Open at Bastad.

Hibs fans' thoughts will also be turning to Sweden, where their hopes of progressing in the Intertoto Cup hinge on an unlikely victory over Elfsborg on Saturday, following the Swedish side's 2-0 victory at Easter Road yesterday.

Let's not forget that we currently have the biggest annual sporting event in the world happening on our continental doorstep, with the third stage of the Tour de France taking place today. This afternoon's race, from St Malo to Nantes, is live on British Eurosport from 1pm, and after thrilling finishes to the first two stages by Spain's Alejandro Valverde and Norway's Thor Hushovd, we can hope for more drama in the climax some time after 4pm.

And there's Twenty20 Cup action today with the first two quarter-finals – Durham v Yorkshire from 5.10pm, and Essex v Northants at 7.40pm – live on Sky Sports 1.

One postscript on the Wimbledon final: with Nadal's Wimbledon victory following his straight-sets drubbing of Federer last month in the French Open final at Roland Garros, he looks a certainty to be the man finally to displace the Swiss as world No.1 – a ranking Federer has held since February 2, 2004, a record 232 consecutive weeks. It won't happen overnight, though, as the Mallorcan still has 545 ATP ranking points to make up.

For the stats lovers among you, Federer still has more than a year's worth of No.1 status to go if he is to surpass Pete Sampras's record of 286 weeks in total at the top of the world rankings.


INTERNET/

WEBSITE OF THE DAY

By Murdo MacLeod

The internet can be a cruel place for politicians. This YouTube video takes a swipe at Wendy Alexander over her resignation. The Little Wendy cartoons are a response from critics of Labour's Little Alex cartoons, which the party put online in the run-up to the Scottish parliament elections. Little Alex sought to lampoon the SNP leader, but were seen as one of the most silly stunts by the party. Little Wendy is at least a bit funnier.