Three races for punters to concentrate on at Kilbeggan this evening, where the nap goes to Croghill Tuppence in the Kilbeggan Patrons Club Handicap Chase, over three miles and a furlong.

The four-day August festival at Tramore drew to a close yesterday afternoon with a series of doubles, highlighted by the second victory at the meeting for Collen Beag, who was an impressive winner here on Friday night.

A boy with a “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 21 pupils and a security guard with two kitchen knives at his high school before being tackled by an assistant principal.

Girls Aloud will star in a teenage soap set in the music business - with the main character based on American Idol judge Simon Cowell.