A move to Paul Nicholls from Robert Alner’s and a breathing operation have seemingly transformed Trust Fund, who bossed his rivals from the front in the Weatherbys Bank Silver Buck Handicap Chase at Wincanton.

South Africa today prepared to say goodbye to former President PW Botha, a man who in life guided the country through some of the worst excesses of apartheid but whose death has shown the strides a bitterly divided country has made toward reconciliation.

IN THE WAKE of the seizure of what has been described as “a frightening array of weaponry”, gardaí in Clonmel this week launched their biggest ever antisocial behaviour blitz on a number of housing estates in the town.

Preliminary results of a post mortem on the body of a 14-year-old Clonmel youth reveal that he died as the result of a head injury.