Troubled Irish explorer Lansdowne Oil and Gas has applied for a resumption of trading in its shares to take effect from Wednesday of this week.

Paul Carberry and Oliver Greenall remain in hospital after sustaining serious injuries in separate falls on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival.

Trainer Ferdy Murphy was left to make what he could of it after his Cheltenham Festival hope Another Promise put up a horror show for favourite-backers at Newcastle.

A respectable history teacher “at the top of his profession” was starting a jail sentence tonight for his secret role as the linchpin of a network of violent football hooligans.