Few three-inch bogey putts are greeted quite as uproariously as the one which secured the 140th Open Championship for Darren Clarke.

RORY McILROY will get his bid for back-to-back major victories under way at Royal St George’s on Thursday in the company of a former champion and a fellow rising star.

International pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is to cut up to 240 jobs from its UK workforce, it has been announced.

DIVORCEE Shan Lambert, awarded one of the largest divorce settlements in British legal history last year, yesterday won her legal battle for a half share of her former husband’s estimated stg£20 million fortune.