Ralph Beckett had a smile back on his face yesterday after a “miserable 11 days” ended with Simple Verse being reinstated as the winner of this year’s Ladbrokes St Leger.

There will be no immediate changes to new whip rules but the situation will be under review, with a report expected by "no later than the end of the week", the British Horseracing Authority said in a statement this evening.

MADONNA and her film director husband Guy Ritchie are to be divorced today.

THE annual May Day demonstrations got off to a violent start overnight when police clashed with protestors in Berlin and the northern city of Hamburg.