Delegates at last week’s Oxford Farming Conference said they would vote 60% in favour of remaining in the EU, if there was a second Brexit referendum. However, the Theresa May exit deal would be favoured by 30%, while 10% would opt for “leave with no deal”.

Popular attitudes in Europe increasingly seem out of kilter with those of political leaders but should not be mistaken for permanent, racially-based ill will, says John Lloyd

A DARING adventurer crossed the English Channel yesterday strapped in a chair beneath several dozen helium-filled balloons and landing in a French cabbage field.

Even before George Washington’s death at Monmouth Park on Saturday night there had been little cheer for the Irish or British raiders from a Breeders’ Cup card that produced 11 American winners out of 11.

A LONG-DISTANCE swimmer who had been preparing for up to a year for a record-breaking swim from Ireland to Wales this week is instead suffering heartache.