Willie Mullins is keen to find out where Upazo ranks in his talented crop of novice hurdlers by letting him line up in the williamhill.com Levy Board Tolworth Hurdle at Kempton this afternoon.

Nigel Twiston-Davies hopes to be double-handed with Khyber Kim and Leamington Lad in The Ladbroke at Ascot on Saturday.

Paul Nicholls reported Be Be King to have come out of his totescoop6 Leamington Novices’ Hurdle victory at Warwick on Saturday unscathed.

British perfume retailer Merchant Retail today posted a 15% hike in half-yearly profits to £3.6m (€5.1m) despite a period of “great uncertainty” in which it decided to pull the plug on its department stores.

A little-known British Labour MP was revealed as the star of the world’s biggest-selling military computer game.