Pre-race talk at Lingfield yesterday had all concerned the development of another eyecatching all-weather gamble but it was rendered insignificant after the shocking fall suffered by Martin Harley.

IN April 2006, a businessman shot a strange animal on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic, having paid $45,000 for the privilege of doing so.

The staff at Hele Windows, Ireland’s first PVC window manufacturer, have ended their sit-in.

The US, UK and EU have criticised the sentences handed down to three members of a punk rock band in Russia, describing them as "disproportionate".