Fitzwilliam Sports owner Paul Byrne has insisted the £100,000 wager his firm took on I Am Maximus to win the Randox Grand National at Aintree on Saturday was a “real bet” and not a publicity stunt.

The 17-year-old scored the opening goal in a sparkling display against Fulham to put Liverpool on course to reach next year’s Champions League.

Arts and Crafts-inspired five-bedroom home in Allostock near Knutsford, with leisure suite, lake, tennis court and landscaped 5.78-acre grounds, ...

The Health Secretary said disagreements over the Iran war and Greenland had ‘undoubtedly strained’ UK-US relations.

Crews from Knutsford and Audlem were called an incident in Austerson in the early hours of Saturday morning (April 11).

Mr Vango remained in equine hospital on Sunday, but trainer Sara Bradstock is hopeful her stable star will “make a full recovery” following his fall in the Randox Grand National at Aintree.

Sir Keir Starmer has urged the US and Iran “to find a way through” after the failure of peace talks, as he also called for the fragile ceasefire to continue and warned against any further escalation.

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of violating a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire that took effect less than 24 hours earlier. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called a 32-hour ...

Marie-Louise Eta has become the first woman to take charge of a men’s team in Europe’s top five leagues after being named head coach of Union Berlin to the end of the season. Eta has been handed the ...

GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes is “doing okay given the circumstances” after he suffered a stroke, his eldest son Declan has said. Declan Holmes added his father’s medical issue “came as a real shock ...

Washington blamed Tehran’s refusal to commit to abandoning a nuclear weapon programme, while Iran cited a ‘gap between our ...

The Health Secretary said ministers had learned to draw a distinction between what the US president ‘says and what he does’.