Jump jockey Danny Cook should have been dreaming about riding leading hope Definitly Red in the £1million Randox Health Grand National at Aintree on April 4.

Presenter Ed Chamberlin says he hopes ITV broadcasting racing from Ireland on Saturday will be a tonic for sports fans in a barren live sporting landscape.

Hundreds of new homes are to be built on a stud farm near Newmarket, Sebastian Shakespeare has the latest including what's going on with the Archer's actors and what Mumford & Sons are using for loo roll.

The bookmaking industry are close to announcing a plan to bet on Saturday's Virtual Reality Grand National with any profits made going to the NHS Charities Group.

EXCLUSIVE BY DOMINIC KING AND MATT HUGHES: The cancellation of Saturday's Randox Health Grand National will cost almost half a billion pounds in lost revenue.

Soldiers were pictured alongside the aircraft this afternoon and then seen scoping out the site, which is less than a mile from Aintree Hospital in Merseyside.

EXCLUSIVE BY MARCUS TOWNEND: Racemail understands the historic organisation, which was formed in 1750 and has 15 British racecourse, has furloughed nearly two thirds of its workforce.

The Jockey Club announced the first day of the 2021 festival would be renamed Liverpool's NHS Day, with thousands of tickets donated to NHS and professional carers in Merseyside.

Millions of people take part every year in a Grand National sweepstake - and even though the race won't be run this year, you can still have some fun with our kit for Saturday's Virtual Grand National. 

It is just for fun but go on, admit it, you're just a little bit curious to see if Tiger Roll can make Grand National history - even if it is only in a virtual world.

PETER SCUDAMORE: Despite big weight, dual winner Tiger Roll must surely go close to landing a Grand National hat-trick in Saturday's virtual race, but KIMBERLITE CANDY is my bet.

Usually an appetiser before the main event, the virtual version of the famous steeplechase takes centre stage on Saturday after the famous Aintree race was cancelled due to coronavirus.

Potters Corner won his trainer Christian Williams a virtual fortune yesterday during a computer simulation of the Grand National watched by almost five million viewers.

Laurie Lee died in 1997. A couple of years ago, David Parker, who made a documentary, found his recordings of Lee in a mis-labelled box and presented them to Penguin

There was bad behaviour to be found in all sorts of books published this year, from the highest to the lowest

Did you know that in 2019 a Belgian man broke the record for sitting on the toilet for the longest time - 116 hours?

Ah, the Golden Age of Travel! This is not a book to be read while you are standing cooped-up on a crowded staircase for ten minutes as part of Ryanair's 'Priority Boarding'

The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. 'Brevity,' writes John Bercow, 'is not my strong suit.' You can say that again!

There have been books, articles, films and plays galore about Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt, but nobody seems to know or care about the 'Fifth Man', John Cairncross

For the most part, Kate Fall regards her role as a memoirist as an extension of her job as gatekeeper: to present the polished face of the Cameron administration to the world

With this, her first novel, Naoise Dolan proves she is a wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in the caustic, knock-'em-off, knock-'em-down tradition of Dorothy Parker

What a bizarre book this is: three parts funny to one part stark, staring horror

Doyle follows an ever-increasing line of academics who attempt to sanctify pop music with stuffiness. In so doing, they extinguish its fire in a great whoosh of homogenous jargon

Bernice A. King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, delivered speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on MLK Day. Thousands around the country celebrate his legacy.

Boris Johnson's plan to scrap a minimum earnings threshold for migrants who want to move to the UK after Brexit has sparked a backlash among Tory MPs.

The Home Secretary apparently set out on Tuesday that there will be no so-called 'carve outs' under Boris Johnson's Australian-style points-based immigration system.

Downing Street has rejected a big business demand to allow low-skilled migration from the EU to continue after Brexit, telling companies to focus on training UK workers instead.

The Health Secretary sought to reassure the public today as he addressed MPs about the killer outbreak that has led Beijing to place a city larger than London in quarantine.

The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director blasted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her repeated 'idiotic' comments that the agency should be abolished.

Priti Patel today launched a savage attack on big British business as she said companies had become 'far too reliant on low skilled' and 'cheap' workers from the EU.

New Zealand expatriates in Australia have called on Russell Crowe to support their bid to change 'racially discriminatory' citizenship laws.

A rapist who dodged deportation after a mutiny by plane passengers will next month launch another bid to avoid being booted out of Britain. Yaqub Ahmed was jailed for a total of nine years.

Sunday's performance featured a surprise appearance from J.Lo's daughter toward the end of the show, singing Let's Get Loud as she sat in a round cage, surrounded by other children in cages.

The court filing on Monday accuses Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration of ignoring subpoenas from Immigration and Customs Enforcement demanding information about Reeaz Khan.

Mexican national, Erick Diaz, 26, was shot in the face by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who was attempting to arrest his mother's boyfriend.

Surveillance video from a private prison in California captured the moment guards pepper sprayed and beat eight Central American migrants that went on a hunger strike in June 2017.

Erick Diaz, a 26-year-old Mexican national, was shot by the immigration and customs agents in Brooklyn on Thursday as they were trying to arrest his mother's boyfriend.

Adau Mornyang, 25, was held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre in New York for three months before her release on December 21.

The president's swipe is the latest in a row over immigration policy between Trump and Democratic leaders in his home state of New York over immigration policy.

The 33 illegal immigrants were found on Monday hiding in a lorry in Calais, France by shocked border force guards after clambering aboard at Dover. Many have now been returned to the UK.

President Donald Trump attacked Mike Bloomberg as a 'total racist' after audio surfaced of his 2015 speech adamantly defending stop and frisk police policies.

A Hispanic student, who is a US citizen, says she was told by a teacher in Chicago to go back her country because she wouldn't stand during the national anthem at an assembly at her school.

Kevin Rudd has slammed Peter Dutton's decision to send Wuhan evacuees to Christmas Island, suggesting the home affairs minister would have treated them differently if they were 'white.'  

The new Chancellor was beaming as he sat next to the Prime Minister despite the fact that yesterday he saw his boss Sajid Javid purged from the government.

The chancellor insisted the UK's new border system would not be ready by December. Relations between No 10 and No 11 were stretched by the proposed extension.

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he does not believe in 'a numbers game' as he was repeatedly challenged on his views on immigration.

Backpackers are being invited to help Australian farmers and communities rebuild after devastating bushfires, with visa changes designed to encourage them to join the effort.

The billionaire, 78, made the comments during a 2011 interview with PBS while he was still serving as New York City Mayor.

Leaders in agriculture, hospitality and the care system lashed out at the Home Secretary after she dismissed fears over staff shortages caused by the proposed points-based system.

New post-Brexit immigration laws in the UK will favour skilled English-speaking migrant workers over cheap unskilled labour from within the European Union.