Gareth Edwards photographed his 19-year-old son Josh at St James’ Hospital, Leeds, with the intention of sharing the picture to raise awareness how devastating drugs can prove.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited a climbing centre in Leeds and was quick to slip off his jacket and scale the wall - a day after Theresa May boogied to Abba's Dancing Queen.

The fan was kitted out in a shell suit, blonde wig, and rose-tinted glasses - and had a cigar in his mouth. Leeds fans sang: 'He's one of our own, he's one of our own, Jimmy Savile, he's one of our own.'

Housing Secretary James Brokenshire (pictured) warned that with 13 MPs having already declared - and potentially more to follow - there could end up being more runners than the Grand National.

Jarrod Lynch (pictured), 26, was racing on his horse Euroman in Grand National Hurdle at Morphetville racecourse in Adelaide at 1pm on Saturday.

Trainer Gordon Elliott is targeting a record third consecutive Randox Health Grand National victory for Tiger Roll. 

Trainer Lucinda Russell believes the low mileage on the clock of 2017 Grand National winner One For Arthur means he can still be a major force in big staying chases.

EXCLUSIVE:Grand National-winning jockey Ryan Mania is on the verge of a surprise comeback to the saddle, five years after quitting after citing weight and motivation problems.

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: After 12 La Liga games there are just five points between the top 13 teams. The usual suspects are up there, but things just don't seem to be clicking at all. Sportsmail examines.

From the Christmas General Election to a solid gold toilet being stolen from inside Blenheim Palace, this year has been packed with inimitable stories.

Ben Jones, 30, has been jailed for stealing £370,000 from his employer to fund his habit after chatty emails from Betway 'VIP manager' Simon Kent led him to stake £1million.

Walk In The Mill, who is as short as 14-1 second favourite with some layers for the Grand National in April, will continue his preparation at Chepstow on Friday.

Fingers crossed Storm Dennis doesn't prove the ultimate menace and Yala Enki (Haydock, nap, 3.15) is given the chance to shine in the Unibet Grand National Trial today.

Tiger Roll took an encouraging first step back on the road to the Randox Heath Grand National when just pipped for fourth in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan.

The British defence of next month's Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup has been weakened after 2018 winner Native River was ruled out of the race.

Dual Grand National winning jockey Leighton Aspell will retire after riding at Fontwell on Sunday. Aspell, 43, will ride Ventura Dragon (4.20) and Itsnotwhatyouthink (5.20) for two of his biggest fans.

Held on Ladies Day at the Aintree festival, the summit brings women in sport and business together to discuss how they continue to break down barriers and inspire others to follow suit.

Fergal O'Brien landed the Marston's Midlands Grand National with Chase The Spud three years ago and Petite Power (Uttoxeter, 3.35) could strike again for the affable Gloucestershire trainer.

It was announced by Jockey Club Racecourses on Monday evening that the biggest betting race of the year will not take place at Aintree next month, because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The decision, which follows the announcement by the Jockey Club on Monday evening to cancel the Randox Health Grand National, will place the sport under considerable financial strain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Glamorous would-be attendees have been donning their glad-rags and showcasing their fineries online as they mark Ladies Day at Aintree during the coronavirus pandemic.

The first Saturday in April could have been one of the biggest days in racing in recent memory, but this year's Grand National will instead be held virtually. Here, Sportsmail's Sam Turner provides his tips...

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.

Ahead of Saturday's Virtual Grand National programme on ITV which also includes a Race of Champions, Sportsmail's MARCUS TOWNEND relives 10 of the Greatest Grand Nationals.

DOMINIC KING: It's the jarring sight of the Blue Anchor that first strikes you. This huge pub, a furlong from the Melling Road, is usually such a bouncing venue for the three days.

MARCUS TOWNEND: We've had the void Grand National, the bomb scare Grand National and dramas like Devon Loch collapsing on the run-in with the race at his mercy in 1956.

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

In all, Kenneth Rose wrote six million words of diaries, of which his appointed editor has selected roughly half a million for publication. If these are the gems, I dread to think what the duds were like

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

Our book critic tests your knowledge of the best boosk released in 2019, with this fun, challenging literary quiz

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

The most frequently quoted observation about Hollywood is the simplest, and possibly also the truest. 'In Hollywood,' said screenwriter William Goldman, 'no one knows anything.'

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'

Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Now B W Black has written a novel involving the Royal princesses

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

Moving into the White House, which had just been built in the middle of a rutted field, America's second president, John Adams, prayed: 'May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.'

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

John Carey is a welcoming host, full of enthusiasm, and the opposite of crusty. He can throw sparkling light on a poet's method in a handful of words

Now aged 93 ('well past my sell-by date'), Jan Morris has taken to keeping a diary, or something like a diary, but more public, as it is clearly written for publication

Anne Tyler's prose style is clear and unshowy. Her sentences have no flourishes. You could almost say that their only identifying feature is their lack of an identifying feature

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