There was mixed news for racing fans yesterday when it was confirmed equine superstar Sprinter Sacre would take his place in Tuesday’s Champion Chase at Punchestown but perennial British champion jump jockey Tony McCoy would miss the entire festival.

Champion jockey Tony McCoy was kept in hospital overnight for observation following a fall at Cheltenham yestersday.

A young mother who was put in a coma to save her unborn child has lost her six-month fight with swine flu.

A TODDLER needed 200 stitches in his face after being horrifically injured by his grandmother’s collie.

STYLE guru Isabella Blow killed herself by taking 20 times the fatal dose of weedkiller Paraquat, a coroner ruled yesterday.

A MOTHER-of-two who was left in a coma after a car crash nearly two years ago has started laughing at her children’s jokes.

A HORRIFIED mother watched her teenage daughter cling on to the open door of an ambulance as it sped along the motorway before falling off and being killed.

THE father of a teenage British girl who fell from the back of an ambulance on to a motorway yesterday told how his horrified wife helped drag her unconscious daughter out of the path of oncoming traffic.