Alan King ticked off another box on his glittering CV after Smad Place finally delivered on the big stage over fences with a scintillating win in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday.

The arrival of large numbers of minke whales along Irish inshore waters seems like a good omen for all-Island whale watch day tomorrow.

Tommy Barker says this builder’s own home is smartly designed.

A young man who crashed a car causing the death of his own girlfriend wept in court today as he publicly apologised to her family.