Kirklees grabbed Group-One glory for Middleham trainer Mark Johnston and jockey Frankie Dettori in the Gran Criterium at San Siro.

THE veteran Adamant Approach can lead his rivals a merry dance in the Grade Two National Lottery Agent Champion ‘Chase at Gowran Park this afternoon.

A VITAL rural transport service which offers a “lifeline” to thousands of pensioners is facing major cutbacks because the Government has failed to increase its €3 million budget for next year, drivers warned yesterday.

A VITAL witness at the Morris Tribunal’s investigation into alleged garda corruption yesterday told of “the most terrible time in my life” — the period when she claims to have been blackmailed by a detective into acting like a terrorist.