Polling stations across the country are reporting a "steady flow of voters", but turnout is so far down on the General Election earlier this year.

BIZARRE in life, Michael Jackson’s complex personal affairs are taking even stranger twists in death, with sketchy reports yesterday of plans for an elaborate public memorial and questions over the parentage of his children.

HE’S too small to tell if he has the feet of a dancer, but there’s no mistaking who his father is. Michael St James Flatley is making a one-off appearance on the cover of Hello but will not become a regular on the celebrity magazine circuit, according to his parents.

Spot The Difference is a standing dish over the cross-country course at Cheltenham and he raised the roof on the first day of the Open meeting with victory in the Sporting Index Steeple Chase.

Beef Or Salmon is back on course for an outing in the next week, having recovered from his abortive trips to two different tracks last weekend.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-East Correspondent

WHEN Michael Webb and his son Michael Jnr dug out their metal detector 22 years ago they had no idea it would unearth such a treasure.