The UK’s biggest horseracing operator revealed a rise in half-year earnings today after seeing signs of recovery in corporate hospitality spending.

Ajax director Rik van den Boog has ruled Frank Rijkaard out of the running to become the club’s new coach.

Craig Gordon is set to replace Allan McGregor for tonight’s World Cup qualifier against Iceland at Hampden after Scotland boss George Burley claimed the Ibrox number one was naive in losing the second goal in Saturday’s 3-0 defeat in Holland.

A leftist television journalist won El Salvador’s presidential elections, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule.

PSV Eindhoven’s troubles show no sign of abating as a Luis Suarez brace earned Ajax a 4-1 win at the Amsterdam ArenA and sent them top of the Eredivisie table.

The UK’s biggest horseracing operator today warned this year’s profits would take a fall as hard-pressed punters stay away from the track.

Holland will be unable to host the Champions League final until they have a stadium with a 70,000 capacity, UEFA have told the Dutch Football Association (KNVB).

German stocks declined, led by E.ON and BMW. MAN and Infineon Technologies advanced.

My Way De Solzen made the perfect start to his chasing career when registering a most impressive success in the Arena Leisure plc Beginners’ Chase at Lingfield.

The UK's largest operator of horseracing fixtures blamed the distraction of the World Cup for a dip in form at its racecourse division today.

The UK’s largest horse racing operator today confirmed it had been involved in talks regarding an industry-wide bid for state-owned bookmaker the Tote.

Dear Sir,

ARSENE WENGER has every faith his young Gunners can excel when they take on Ajax in the Champions League tonight.

Racecourses are being asked by the Jockeys’ Association to support RaceTech and safeguard the future of their stalls handlers.

Significant progress has been made following the latest “highly-constructive talks” with the key players in the ongoing stalls dispute in the UK.

Arena Leisure are considering police involvement after it was revealed their new stalls handlers team have been subject to threats of verbal and physical violence.

Clerk of the course Jon Pullin is hoping for a smooth introduction of the new team of Arena stalls handlers at Wolverhampton this evening.

Some progress appears to have been made today in the controversy surrounding the new Steriline starting stalls which are in use at 17 of Britain’s 35 racecourses.

Arena Leisure racing director Ian Renton admitted he would be “terribly disappointed” if there was a jockeys strike in support of RaceTech’s stall handlers.

Yvan Muller put pressure on British Touring Car Championship leader Matt Neal by winning two out of three races at Mondello Park in Ireland today.

Attheraces stakeholders Arena Leisure and BSkyB have bought out Channel Four’s share of the business as part of a plan to revive the media rights firm which recently signed up 25 British racecourses.

The British Office of Fair Trading has concluded that the collective sale of the media rights for 49 racecourses to attheraces was against competition rules.

Arena Leisure, which has a profitable portfolio of six UK racecourses, will want to show on Wednesday that attheraces, its two-year-old joint venture with BSkyB and Channel 4, is heading in the right direction.

Magazine publisher Emap is to restate circulation figures for 14 titles after infringing rules that define how sales are measured, it emerged today.