Usain Bolt’s quest to become an athletics legend took a stunning blow today when the triple Olympic champion was disqualified from the 100 metres final at the World Championships for a false start.

Relatives of victims of the Lockerbie bombing have described their continued distress that the man convicted of the atrocity remains in Libya almost two years to the day since he was freed on compassionate grounds.

IT was as the bookmakers predicted; a seventh Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup title for Clongowes Wood College whose 14 points salvo in the opening minutes of yesterday’s decider at the RDS proved decisive.

A body which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice has been given permission to release details of the case of the Lockerbie bomber, it was announced today.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won gold in the 100m in Beijing in a world-record time of 9.69 seconds.