It really is silly season in Britain, with all sorts of people calling for horses to be disqualified should the winning jockey transgress the whip rules.

Andrew Balding is in bullish mood as Elm Park bids to provide the trainer with a first domestic Group One victory in over a decade in this afternoon’s Racing Post Trophy (3.50 Doncaster).

Mutual Regard completed a clean sweep for Ireland in the four major races at York’s Betfred Ebor meeting on Saturday, in the process proving beyond all doubt that Johnny Murtagh is going to be as big a force in the training ranks as he was in the saddle.

Peter Niven had many great times as a jockey but is just as excited for the biggest moment of his training career as he saddles the well-fancied Clever Cookie in today’s Betfred Ebor at York.

Pallasator boosted his claims for the Betfred Ebor with an emphatic victory in the GL Events Owen Brown Handicap at Ascot yesterday.

Your average brown rat has long hairs sprouting from the nose, the cheeks and the eyebrows and there are rows of shorter ones along the sides of the mouth. Studies are being done on how they use these sensors to get around.

Tony Blair has been criticised after claiming the violent insurgency in Iraq is not the result of the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

Britain's former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is top of the wish-list for producers of 'Celebrity Big Brother', it has emerged.

Qahriman, the first reserve for the Betfred Ebor, will run in the valuable handicap at York today after Harlestone Times was declared a non-runner.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has maintained her innocence after it was confirmed that she is to face charges over phone hacking in the UK.

Amir Khan insists he has no thoughts of retiring following his defeat to Danny Garcia and promised to come back “a lot better and a lot stronger”.

RUPERT MURDOCH’S British newspaper company has agreed to pay damages to 37 high-profile victims of tabloid phone hacking, including actor Jude Law, footballer Ashley Cole, a friend of Prince William and former deputy prime minister John Prescott.

DRESDEN CALL, trained in Tralee by Johnny Kelliher for the Dublin-based Lixnaw native Josephine McCarthy, captured his second All-Age Cup when lifting the Kingdom Cup and the €3,500 purse at Ballybeggan Park yesterday.

AMIR KHAN admits he cannot afford to let thoughts of a potential mega fight with Floyd Mayweather distract him ahead of his upcoming contest against Lamont Peterson.

Nearly 30 high-profile figures who suspect that their phone messages were intercepted by News of the World journalists are taking legal action – with more litigants “coming along week by week”, a High Court judge in Britain heard today.

ST NICHOLAS ABBEY and Unaccompanied are among a fascinating list of entries for the Geegeez.co.uk Alleged Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Hooray was an impressive all-the-way winner of the Adnams Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket today.

Dream Ahead added another level of intrigue to the two-year-old division by providing trainer David Simcock with his first British Group One in the Shadwell Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket today.

LAST season’s British and Irish Cup finalists Munster made a bright start to the new season when they proved too good for Leinster in yesterday’s A Interprovincial at Donnybrook.

Hooray will test the water in Group One company on her next start after her runaway victory in Saturday’s Sirenia Stakes at Kempton.

Hooray continued what could be a surprisingly busy build-up towards a Group One challenge with what trainer Sir Mark Prescott felt was her best performance to date in the totepool Sirenia Stakes at Kempton.

Leinster have signed tight-head prop Ben Prescott from English club Nottingham until the end of the season.

Former British Deputy Prime minister John Prescott privately harboured doubts about the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he disclosed today.

ENGLISH challenger Prescription could provide the answer to the Listed ITBA and Gain Horse Feeds Support Local Racetracks EBF Sweet Mimosa Stakes at Naas tonight.

Roger Charlton maintained his excellent summer strike-rate by landing the opening race of the 2010 Newmarket July Festival.

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Former deputy British Prime Minister John Prescott is to make his debut as guest host on 'Have I Got News For You'.

John Prescott acknowledged today that Labour was not storming ahead to a “great victory” in the UK's General Election.

TORY leader David Cameron laughed off being hit by an egg while out electioneering yesterday, dismissing it as the “first of the campaign”.

John Prescott’s wife told today of the dramatic moment she found out her husband had had an affair.

AMIR KHAN expects to go on to become a multi-weight world champion after trainer Freddie Roach backed him to emulate friend and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.

Amir Khan became a world champion overnight just 10 months after suffering a devastating knockout defeat by unknown Colombian Breidis Prescott.

AMIR KHAN believes his shocking defeat by Breidis Prescott last September actually boosted his world title chances by turning him “from a boy into a man”.

Former British deputy prime minister John Prescott today sought to gain access to “sealed” evidence relating to allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.

CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron yesterday criticised journalists guilty of “unacceptable practices” but continued to back the former British tabloid newspaper editor who heads his media relations team.

News of the World parent company News International has said allegations that police officers found evidence that the newspaper hacked into "thousands" of mobile phones are "untrue".

SCOTLAND YARD will conduct “no further investigation” of allegations of phone tapping by the News of the World, assistant commissioner John Yates said last night.

Scotland Yard chiefs were today studying allegations of large-scale phone-hacking by the News of the World.

Britain's Guardian newspaper has claimed the publisher of the News of the World, News Group Newspapers, paid out more than £1m (€1.2m) to settle cases that threatened to reveal evidence of the group's journalists' alleged involvement in telephone hacking.

Gordon Brown faced renewed mockery of his YouTube performance today as John Prescott described the British Prime Minister’s smile as the worst in the world.

Amir Khan took a huge step towards a world title shot with an excellent fifth-round technical decision win over bloodied legend Marco Antonio Barrera.

John Prescott was today recruiting thousands of supporters every hour to his campaign against part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paying out bonuses.

Former British deputy prime minister John Prescott will today present a petition with 13,000 signatures demanding the part state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland drops plans to pay up to £1bn (€1.116bn) in staff bonuses.

Staff at a bank bailed-out by the taxpayer are likely to receive some bonuses, British Chancellor Alistair Darling indicated today as pressure increased for any payments to be halted.