An extreme cold snap sweeping across Europe has claimed more lives, forced the closure of airports in Switzerland and France and left hundreds of drivers stranded on snow-bound roads.

YOU’LL need to step outside Culhane’s Irish pub to realise how far you are from home.

GRADUATION NIGHT sidestepped a Grade One engagement earlier in the week and the Lynn Higgins 60th Birthday Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase at Doncaster is an eminently more winnable contest.