Albertas Run will face nine rivals as he attempts to pull off the Cheltenham-Aintree double for the second successive year in the John Smith’s Melling Chase.

Tornatore attempts to fashion a personal storyline built around a Sicillian family, the multi-generation Torrenuovas, but somehow forgets to include an emotional drive that takes the film forward and fails to leave the watcher with anything worth considering.

Kalahari King has run out an impressive winner of the John Smith's Maghull Novices' Chase.

The government today described Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers as irrelevant and rejected their pleas for a truce on land seizures.

Zimbabwe’s white farmers were branded racists and fascists by a government minister today who urged tough action against those who are defying an order to stop working their fields.