Local owner Graham Povey realised one of his lifetime ambitions when Flying Key, the first horse to carry his colours, won the Bryn Thomas Crane Hire Nursery at Chester today.

A number of lifeboat crew members in a Co Down seaside town have returned to duty following a bitter internal dispute, it emerged today.

Lifeboat services have been withdrawn from a seaside town in Co Down after more than half its staff quit in a bitter internal dispute, it emerged today.

Senior management of the RNLI have withdrawn the inshore lifeboat service from the Newcastle, Co Down, station due to an internal dispute between the Station Coxswain and crew members.