Aidan O’Brien hopes John F Kennedy and Ol’ Man River can get bounce back to form in today’s Betfred Dante Stakes at York and, in doing so, boost their Investec Derby hopes.

THE long promised sunshine finally arrived just in time for the bank holiday weekend as people took to the streets at summer festivals up and down the county.

British American Tobacco and RJ Reynolds Tobacco have agreed to merge their US tobacco businesses, uniting the nation’s second and third largest tobacco companies in an effort to blunt the attacks of sagging sales and cheaper brands.

British American Tobacco, the world’s second biggest cigarette maker, said today it will build a cigarette manufacturing plant in South Korea.

A robust performance is expected from British American Tobacco, when it reveals interim results next week.