She understood the motivation of a woman who had benefited from surrogacy and knew the happiness she could, in turn, bestow.”What matters to Jayne is making other people happy,” says Lynne. “And I am so happy now that I have blocked out all the years of infertility treatment. I now see it as a journey – that led to this beautiful boy.”Jayne seems just as delighted. “I honestly did not find it hard to hand Isaac to Lynne,” says Jayne “I just felt such joy for Lynne I just remembered how I felt when Abigail was handed to me.

” For further proof of Jayne’s conviction that she did the right thing, consider this. Next month she will start trying to conceive a baby for another couple. She is very determined, while her own fertility remains, to spread some more parental joy.For information about surrogacy contact . Cancer specialists around the world are rethinking their advice to cover up in the sun amid growing concern that staying in the shade may be causing harm. As the law currently stands, until a parental order is granted to the couple in a surrogacy arrangement (Isaac’s comes through next month), the surrogate is the mother of the child even if she has no biological connection (this is the case in “traditional” surrogacy, in which the egg and sperm of the intended parents are used). Jayne is entering controversial territory when she says the law should be changed to protect couples against a surrogate changing her mind about handing over a baby unless the surrogate has real doubts about the welfare of the child But you can understand her position. A year later, Great Britain will go Down Under for four or five games against Australia and New Zealand – the longest foray to Australia since the last Lions’ tour 14 years ago.In 2007, the centenary of the first overseas tour to Britain, by the New Zealand All-Golds, will be marked by a similar enterprise.

Now, as then, the All-Golds – so-called because of what was then the novel concept of professionalism in rugby – will include at least one Australian player among the Kiwis.The Ireland and Great Britain winger, Brian Carney, will see a specialist today about the knee injury he suffered in his comeback game for Wigan last Friday. As much as this is a very important race, it’s a race for students, and students here are involved in tons of studies, so from that point of view I think they’ve done a good job.”. “The challenge for the coaches is to balance the academics and athletics. If at any point it became clear that the athletic goals of an individual became paramount to those of their academics, the university would not be supporting the event any longer,” Barney says “There’s set rules You can’t row between nine and one o’clock.

To a man, everyone in the squad last year has said, ‘It’s behind us now, we lost the race, let’s move on’. Sean [Bowden, chief coach] said point blank, look, even if the boats hadn’t clashed, it appeared that Cambridge were the better crew, and a faster crew, so that just put the nail in the coffin. It meant if there was no clash, Cambridge would still have won, whatever.”Barney and his wife, Buffy, who is also an Olympic rowing medallist for Canada, and is studying sports medicine at Oxford, are enthralled not just by the rowing culture that they feel in the streets around the university, but by the theatre, music and the Union which compete for their time.Used to an Olympic culture of eat, sleep and row, they are experiencing a completely different environment. I hope that that’s offset by the talent and by the likelihood of a really, really spectacular race.”Oxford lost the race last year after getting a good start before being blamed for a clash which resulted in their bow man’s seat jamming. They have named the same cox, Acer Nethercott, who steered that race and the 2003 race, which they won by a foot, but that is the only echo of the disaster.Williams was not around then: “We all came in, the imports, newcomers, we hadn’t been part of the build-up, part of the clash, part of the discussion, so we really had to form our opinions based on the opinions of the guys around us. “But some of the graduate courses are more flexible with schedules so you can fit rowing in, and some of the undergrad courses here are so intense that it’s very difficult for them to complete the training schedule, let alone to challenge these international imports who’ve already got years of rowing under their belt, have the base training, and can take hard work-outs without paying for it too much.

“The number of graduates in both boats is quite shocking,” Williams said. He returned to Victoria to read history at university, which was cheek by jowl with the national rowing centre under the charge of Mike Spracklen, the coach who launched Sir Steve Redgrave into orbit 25 years earlier.Williams is one of three Olympians in the Oxford boat, while Cambridge boasts four, and he is keen to defend their presence in a Boat Race featuring only two undergraduates this year. There are days when I’m out there and I’m thinking I’ve got to push harder than I’ve ever pushed before, but I don’t know what I’m pushing against.”Born in Argentina and raised on an island off Victoria, British Columbia, before his family moved to Toronto, Williams was a sports-mad child who played everything he could as a schoolboy at Upper Canada College. He was always fantasising about what he calls the “marquee events”, like being on the 18th at Augusta or on Centre Court at Wimbledon.When Williams, a lithe 6ft 4in, 14st athlete, realised that rowing was his calling, superseding basketball, football, ice hockey, golf and tennis, Pinsent was already making headlines, and became his first rowing hero. If we don’t prepare to row off the opposition and they go guns a-blazing off the start with a killer 30 strokes, this race could be over in the first minute. That’s why we rowed a set strategy.”But here, we don’t know what Cambridge will do, we really don’t. We just know that they have an incredible amount of talent, they have a good coach, a track record of proven winning, so all those things add up.