By Dan Warren BBC Sport at the Crucible

Fisher receives �5,500 for winning the world title

Campaigners for sexual equality are no doubt fuming following the ladies' World Snooker Championship final on Sunday.

Kelly Fisher claimed her fifth world title in six years with victory over Lisa Quick, but the Carlisle-based queen of the ladies game will not be retiring on the proceeds.

The princessly sum of �5,500 is her reward for winning the top tournament of the women's game - a little over one-third of what a man gets if he loses in the first round of the tournament.

Fisher was, in fact, due to compete in the qualifying tournament for the men's competition, but was forced to concede her match after getting stuck in traffic in Harrogate.

A glamorous life indeed - and perhaps her prize money could go towards a helicopter for future tournaments...

Snooker fans probably think that covering the Embassy World Championships is a pretty cushy number.

In many ways it is - free access to all the games, chances to chat with snooker's stars past and present, and being hand-fed caviar by the tournament sponsors (well, getting free crisps, anyway).

But it's not all plain sailing. Two nameless hacks had a rude awakening when they asked to be shown to their rooms at a hotel a mere stone's throw from the Crucible.

A sour-faced receptionist assured the insistent pair that they were not booked in, and furthermore that they had more chance of seeing Sheffield Wednesday in the Premiership than getting an empty room near the Crucible.

The rebuffed reporters soon realised why they were being given such short shrift - a mix-up meant they did indeed have two ultra-cushy rooms booked.

But unfortunately, they were for the end of May - three weeks after the tournament finished.

Fearing long nights on the benches of Sheffield, the intrepid duo decamped to a remote hotel deep in the Yorkshire hills, facing a long daily commute to bring snooker lovers their daily fix of news, with only the promise of gratis peanuts to keep up their demoralised spirits.

BBC pundit Steve Davis is a regular in the Crucible media room when he is not on the telly.

As a snooker fan, it is a good place for the former world champion to relax, but it does mean he is often followed by hungry journalists who want a quick comment from one of the game's legends.

Mild-mannered Davis is usually happy to oblige. But the laid-back soul music fanatic was taken aback on Sunday evening when one reporter hollered from the rear of the room: "Steve! Steve! Quick, I need a quote! Steve!!!"

Perhaps fearing that some maniac editor was tearing some hapless journalist to shreds, cuemeister Davis leapt into action: "What? What do you want".

"I'm having me front room redecorated," replied the wag from the rear of the room, much to the former world champion's non-amusement.