If a parentless child is sleeping in the charred remains of a burnt-out camp in Calais, you don’t tell them that the ‘relocation of asylum-seekers is a complex and sensitive process’, writes Clodagh Finn.

A late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital, French medical officials said.

Millemix, a leading fancy for the French Derby, was put down following an accident on the gallops at Chantilly today.

Criquette Head-Maarek saddles her French Derby hope Millemix in the Group One Prix Lupin at Longchamp on Sunday.