Footstepsinthesand has been installed as the 7-4 favourite by the sponsors to complete a Classic double in the Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

Rescue teams resumed attempts to retrieve the bodies of British newlyweds and the pilot of a sightseeing helicopter they were in when it crashed in Spain’s Costa del Sol.

SAUDI commandos in helicopters stormed an expatriate resort yesterday to free hostages seized by suspected al-Qaida gunmen in an assault that killed 22 people mostly foreigners, including one American.