Ed Power looks at the highs and lows of a mixed year in music

David Pipe has trained a winner at every jumps track in Britain after Hunterview landed the feature John Smith’s Scottish County Handicap Hurdle at Musselburgh.

The Big Brother housemates have put forward Brian to face the public vote on Friday after concluding that Tracey was more worthy of soul guru status.

Relations between Portuguese police and Madeleine McCann’s parents are under strain today after detectives revealed in an interview that she might have been killed, without telling her family first.

Big Brother loudmouth Charley is facing eviction tonight as one of the shortest-priced favourites to go in the show’s history.

ACQUIRED brain injury (ABI) has become Ireland’s hidden epidemic because survivors cannot seek the services they need and their families are too exhausted to come forward, Barbara O’Connell, chief executive of the Peter Bradley Foundation, claimed yesterday.

Not Left Yet is vying for favouritism with Afrad in tomorrow’s Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle after Timmy Murphy elected to take the ride.

THANK God for French unpredictability. Any regular follower of the French championship coverage on Setanta Sports will marvel at the quality of rugby displayed.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial lied in his garda statement because he didn't want to be blamed for the serious part of the fight that led to the death of the 18-year-old student, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

Dean Sturridge paved the way for Leicester reaching the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in 19 years.