The BBC today announced a new documentary on the Spice Girls – and revealed that the group could be set to record this year’s Children In Need single.

VETERINARY surgeons attached to UCD have discovered that farm animals are severely deficient in selenium on the Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, farm of Dan Brennan, hit by chronic livestock health problems for many years.

A hearing into appeals by trainer John Tuck and jockey Jodie Mogford against punishments handed out over the running of Indian Star at Ludlow will be held tomorrow.

Record-breaking jockey Tony McCoy gained one of the most dramatic successes of his distinguished career when Family Business finished alone after being remounted in the Feast Of St Raymond Novices’ Chase at Southwell.