A RADICAL plan for state-backed mortgages to help struggling borrowers buy their own home is expected to be revealed by the Labour Party in the coming weeks.

WICHITA Lineman is on course to attempt to follow up his dramatic Cheltenham Festival victory in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National.

Arnold Layne, a faller when the well-backed favourite for Warwick’s Classic Chase, is 6-1 market leader with the sponsors for the totesport Eider at Newcastle on Saturday.

GVA Ireland is out to become the first horse to win the John Smith’s Midlands Grand National Chase twice when he lines up for the Uttoxeter marathon today.