A student has cost her family more than £1,340 after she skipped a 90-minute detention.

JESSICA KÜRTEN yesterday filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the two-month suspension imposed by the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) as a result of the banned medication found in the horse Castle Forbes Maike.

A mudslide set off by heavy rain caused injuries and damaged parts of Schlans, a village in eastern Switzerland, police said. It appeared by evening that there were no fatalities.

As many as 40,000 residents fled low-lying parts of Prague before dawn today, hours before the worst flood in more than 100 years was expected to hit the Czech capital.

Ten people were injured when an empty regional train ran into an Intercity express preparing to leave St Gallen's train station in eastern Switzerland, Swiss Federal Railways said.