It may look as though winners are coming easily to Gordon Elliott right now but he is ably assisted from the saddle and Davy Russell was at his brilliant best aboard tricky customer Lieutenant Colonel when taking the UCC Horse Racing Society Hurdle on Student Raceday in Mallow.

A schoolteacher from west Cork and a village community group in the Muskerry gaeltacht were the overall winners in Cork County Council’s Mayor’s Community Awards Scheme.

AVONDHU Blackwater Partnership community information evenings continue throughout October, providing information on the programmes the organisation delivers, and on the new rules, regulations and guidelines in the 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme.