Paul Nicholls kickstarted an enormous afternoon at Newbury as Pasco (4-1) drew clear in the toteplacepot Novices’ Hurdle.

AN autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said yesterday.

The lawyer for Terri Schiavo’s husband says he’s confident the long-awaited autopsy report on the brain-damaged woman will show no evidence she was abused before she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state.