British writer Jeanette Winterson has surrendered what could have been a strong point about the horrors of animal farming with her latest "a rabbit ate my veggies" strop.

The shamefully predictable yet entirely avoidable death of Battlefront during the first race over the Grand National fences at Aintree belies the worth of the recent changes made to the course.

Tens of thousands of cheering, champagne-soaked revellers packed the central streets and plaza of Pamplona today to kick off Spain’s most famous fiesta, the San Fermin bull-running festival.