Leeds manager Brian McDermott will report for duties as normal at the club’s training ground this morning despite appearing to have been sacked on Friday.

Brian McDermott has been handed an instant return to management after being given the vacant Leeds job on a three-year contract this afternoon.

Leeds owner Ken Bates has announced Bahrain-based investment bank GFH Capital will complete a 100% takeover of the club on December 21.

THOSE who knew him were at a loss as to why Derrick Bird turned into a killer.

A mother was jailed for 10 years today for smothering her three-year-old son to death with a pillow.

Vicky Haigh is to give her stable star Rosabee a short break having been forced to miss Saturday’s Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket.

Rosabee may be Deauville-bound after completing a quick hat-trick in the ladbrokes.com Nursery at Leicester.

Rosabee came home in splendid isolation as Vicky Haigh’s filly landed odds of 33-1 in the Dianne Nursery at Pontefract.

Seb Sanders refused to admit defeat in the duel for the jockeys’ championship after riding a short-priced treble at Catterick.

Vicky Haigh has withdrawn her appeal against the £3,500 (€5,000) fine handed out by the Horseracing Regulatory Authority over the Ooh Aah Camara affair.

WRIGGLE like a snake, waddle like a duck went the punch line of Brendan Bowyer’s 1960s hit The Hucklebuck.

A SAN FRANCISCO gallery owner bears a painful reminder of her nation’s unresolved anguish over the incidents at the Abu Ghraib prison, a black eye delivered by an unknown assailant who apparently objected to a painting that depicts US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners.