Secret letters sent by Prince Charles to government ministers have finally been made public after a 10-year court battle.

Andrew Purcell (Mitsubishi) is likely to be the barometer of the pace on Sunday’s Willie Loughman Forest Rally, the first round of the Valvoline National Forest Rally Championship.

A 21-year-old Drogheda man, who got involved in a heated argument with a friend over a bag of cannabis worth just €10, took the rather bizarre step of ringing the gardaí and asking them to come round to his house to try and resolve the dispute.

Boosted by their podium finish on Rally Finland, Tyrone’s Kris Meeke pictured and his Killarney co-driver Paul Nagle will push for another big result on the ADAC Rallye Deutschland that begins today in Trier.

Waterford’s Craig Breen is one of the favourites to land this season’s European Rally Championship title and is top seed for tomorrow’s Rally Liepaja event in Latvia using a Peugeot 207 S2000.

Adam Higginbotham goes on the trail of the Traveller gang behind Europe’s rhino horn theft epidemic.

The Lone Ranger (12A) opens in San Francisco in 1933, with an aged Native American warrior, Tonto (Johnny Depp), telling a young boy about how the legend of the West’s masked lawman began.

It’s “Hi-ho, Silver. Away!” for Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp, director and Oscar nominated star of the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' saga, who reunite for this rootin’ tootin’ reinvention of the masked avenger.

Even with three British Rally Championship titles under his belt, Keith Cronin had not been able to progress his career due to a lack of funding.

The magnetic Queen singer is still attracting fans, 21 years after his death — yet he was remarkably hard to fathom. Can a BBC documentary and a Hollywood film cast any new light on the man behind the legend?

Filming on 'The Lone Ranger' is close to completion.

Jayne Doherty would be the first to acknowledge she does not do “quietly confident”.

Protestors stormed into the offices of the bank formerly known as Anglo Irish today to show opposition to the €1.25bn being paid out to bondholders.

Celtic reduced their bank debt by more than £5m after turning a loss into a small profit in the year to June 30, the club’s annual financial results show.

Bereaved families and survivors of the 7/7 attacks have withdrawn a legal attempt to force the Government to hold an independent inquiry into the atrocity.

NEIL LENNON aims to repay Celtic fans for their backing last season after signing a new 12-month rolling contract as Hoops manager.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has signed a new 12-month rolling contract, the Glasgow club have confirmed.

Former Celtic chairman Brian Quinn has paid tribute to his outgoing successor, John Reid, who will step down from his post at the club’s annual general meeting later this year.

Neil Lennon has welcomed the news that he is set for a new contract after clinching his first trophy as Celtic manager.

NEIL LENNON does not want the Celtic board to offer him a new contract out of “sympathy”.

CIAN O’Connor is confident Larkhill Cruiser can rise to the occasion when he makes his nations cup debut in today’s FEI Top League opener in La Baule, France.

Mark McGhee insists Neil Lennon should not walk away from his job as Celtic manager despite threats to his personal safety.

Parcel bombs have been sent to Celtic manager Neil Lennon, a lawyer and a politician, it was revealed last night.

WITH victory in the opening two rounds of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship, Cork driver Owen Murphy aims to continue the trend in Sunday’s third round, the Lismore-based Munster Moonraker Forest Rally.

TOMORROW’S second round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship, the Willie Loughman Carrick-on-Suir Rally features the participants that served up a cracking tussle on the opening round in Mitchelstown a few weeks ago.

WITH the dawning of a new era in the World Rally Championship, one question remains pertinent — who can break Sebastien Loeb’s dominance? World champion since 2004, the unflappable French ace bids to continue his amazing WRC record as Rally Sweden begins in earnest today following last night’s super special at the city’s trotting track in Karlstad.

PLANNING for the nations cup season moves into focus next Tuesday, when riders gather with management at Dublin airport to plan the season ahead.

Celtic have revived attempts to force reform of the Scottish Football Association after manager Neil Lennon was hit with a six-match touchline ban.

Thousands of people gathered at Ibrox today to mark the 40th anniversary of the stadium disaster that claimed the lives of 66 people.

CIAN O’CONNOR gave himself an early Christmas present yesterday, winning the Welcome Stakes on the first day of the London International Horse Show in Olympia.

Britain’s military operations in Afghanistan have been harshly criticised by the country’s president Hamid Karzai, local officials and the American commander of Nato troops, according to leaked diplomatic papers.

DOUGIE McDONALD last night blasted the Scottish Football Association for failing to protect referees from attacks on their integrity as he announced his immediate retirement from the professional game.

Scotland’s leading referees are set to confirm a weekend of industrial action after deciding to take a stand against increasingly dangerous levels of abuse.

Scottish football faces a potential shutdown next weekend after the country’s leading referees voted to refuse appointments.

WELSH ace Mel Evans (Subaru WRC) has already made Irish rallying history by becoming the first ever overseas driver to win the national rally series.

CHARLIE SWAN was crowned king of the legends after making all the running on Miami Gator to win the Fudge And Smudge Leger Legends Classified Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

GRAHAM Bradley plans to ride out the storm of his controversial return to the saddle in the Fudge And Smudge Leger Legends Classified Stakes at Doncaster this afternoon.

GLASGOW Celtic’s financial results – for the year to the end of June – mirrored the club’s poor on-field performance last season; with it slipping into the red, turnover dropping significantly and debt levels rising.

Celtic today revealed a 15% drop in annual turnover and an increase in bank debt of more than £4m – a financial performance partly attributed to “unacceptable results” under Tony Mowbray.

THE affiliated clubs of Motorsport Ireland are set to receive the Way Forward document, hot on the heels of the governing body’s General Code of Conduct contained in this month’s Motorsport Bulletin.

HORSEPOWER of a different variety will reverberate at the Tralee Racecourse tomorrow for the Tyre Stop Kerry Rallysprint.

Neil Lennon paid tribute to Peter Lawwell for his part in the Irishman being made Celtic manager.

CELTIC chairman John Reid yesterday strenuously denied Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni or anyone else had been sounded out about the manager’s job at Parkhead before insisting Neil Lennon was the only credible candidate.