Former Newmarket trainer Michael Jarvis died today at the age of 73.

THE first annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival this week in Waterville will reveal the great film-maker’s secrets for catching the best sea trout, as well as honouring his humour, organisers said yesterday.

CORK C of I and Cork Harlequins all but kissed goodbye to any lingering hopes they might mount a challenge for a men’s Irish Hockey League semi-final spot, after suffering heavy defeats at home to Dublin opposition on Saturday.

ALL five of Munster’s Irish Hockey League representatives need to collect points this weekend, if they are to harbour realistic semi-final ambitions.

RECESSIONARY times everywhere, but the Munster Council yesterday announced the creation of 23 new full-time jobs in the province, with the appointment of Games Development Administrators (GDAs).

ROY SCHEIDER, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in The French Connection and who later uttered one of cinematic history’s most memorable lines in Jaws, has died. He was 75.

NEIGHBOURS of the man arrested on suspicion of murdering five prostitutes in Suffolk said they had seen him acting strangely in recent months.

A man dubbed the “dreadlocks bandit” because of his hairstyle was jailed for 1,210 years in California and given 22 consecutive life terms for a string of bank robberies he committed after being released from prison for an earlier hold-up spree.

British supermarket giant Asda announced plans today for a major dockside warehouse operation to slash the number of miles needed to distribute UK products.