President Milos Zeman has “closed the door” of Prague Castle to the US ambassador following comments perceived as critical of the Czech’s decision to attend a Second World War commemoration in Moscow, according to local media reports.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who later married Bernard Madoff’s niece said he would have made a deeper investigation into the disgraced financier’s business had he been more thorough in studying a complaint.

House of Representatives members accused America’s Securities and Exchange Commission of impeding their probe into how the agency failed to uncover the alleged £35bn (€39.2bn) fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff.

Jonjo O’Neill enjoyed a welcome confidence-boost just before Aintree’s prestigious John Smith’s Grand National meeting when Schapiro landed the opening event at Newbury this afternoon.