A SPECIAL fund has been established in honour of the late Examiner journalist Maureen Fox to help train a newborn guide dog.

THE death has taken place of one of the best-known and most popular female journalists in the south of Ireland.

The Betchworth Kid could bid to put the record straight in the totesport Ebor at York in August.

QUEL Esprit was one of the favourites for Wednesday’s Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle but fell at the second flight.

The Betchworth Kid has skipped an engagement at Newbury tomorrow with connections instead aiming for bigger prizes later this month.

General Miller’s target at the Cheltenham Festival has still to be decided after the abandonment of the Tolworth Hurdle.

HITTING an international market with a world-class property bristling with security features on the day the US attacked Iraq may be a blow to the best-laid sales plans of the French owners of an Irish mansion.