Football pundit Gary Lineker has “apologised unreservedly” for a social media re-post which featured a picture of a rat saying he would “never knowingly share anything antisemitic”.

It was Ralph Beckett’s Sandown winner Tattycoram that led the field of Classic aspirants into the straight, but Whirl was hot on her tail, with Moore soon allowing his mount to stride on up the long ...

The news marks the end of Dai’s ownership of the club. During his tenure, the Royals have been placed under a number of transfer embargoes and been handed points deductions totalling 18 points.

A family statement said he “passed away peacefully at St Margaret’s Hospice in Clydebank surrounded by family and friends”.

The latest measures are aimed at dealing with the scale of the continuing crisis in prisons, as the latest weekly prison population in England and Wales stands at 88,087. This is ...

Care staff working at Enable Scotland are to go on strike in a dispute over pay in the first national care walkout in more than a decade, Unison has announced. The strike will roll out across five ...

Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of Belle and Sebastian, has joined campaigners to call for urgent action on ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis). The singer and other people with the condition, which is ...

The oldest working theatre in the UK, where William Shakespeare is thought to have performed, has exposed an area of historic timber floor “larger than a tennis court” in a heritage project. Tim ...

Aston Martini jumped excellently throughout in the hands of Felix de Giles, moving stylishly into contention in the home straight and soon alongside Il Est Francais, who folded tamely before the last, ...

Republic of Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson hopes those players who have been left out of his squad for the June friendlies will use their summer break to fully “switch off” and come back refreshed ...

US actor Tom Cruise was joined by British stars Hannah Waddingham and Simon Pegg during a photocall at the 78th Cannes Film Festival while promoting Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Inisherin served a reminder of his class with a battling success in the 1895 Duke of York Clipper Stakes at York.