There is an irony that 20 minutes after Barry Geraghty thought that his Champion Hurdle hopes might have been dashed on the final Saturday in November a bright new chance emerged.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MIKE DICKSON: The BBC's voice of racing is in the final furlong of his career with the corporation, and admits it will hurt when he crosses the finish line.

Former jockey Mark Dwyer has paid tribute to Cheltenham Gold Cup winning trainer Peter Beaumont, who has died at the age of 85.

Last year Newmarket-based trainer Haggas hatched a plan to target the Group One Queen Elizabeth Stakes with Addeybb and the Group One Schweppes Sydney Cup with Young Rascal.

The son of Giant's Causeway was yesterday sadly euthanised at Kildangan Stud as a result of health issues, and brought an illustrious career at stud to an end.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The extremely-talented Juventus forward and Italy international is on the brink of sealing a £36million move to the Premier League, which would be a great coup by Marco Silva.

Sean Dyche has quashed talk of Jay Rodriguez making a shock move to Inter Milan, branding it one of the strangest he has heard. Rodriguez only joined Burnley for £10million in the summer.

The Dutchman signed for the Italian giants for €75million (£67.8m) in the summer after captaining Ajax to the Champions League semi-finals with a series of colossal displays.

The Atalanta coach was furious after top scorer Duvan Zapata was ruled out of Atalanta's arduous Champions League trip to Manchester City with an abductor strain sustained with Colombia.

Fabio Quagliarella endured more than five years of harrowing paranoia, secrecy and torment. His family were abused in the street, his beloved city of Naples cast him out as a traitor.

Darts sensation Fallon Sherrock is set to face former Italian striker Luca Toni in a celebrity darts tournament this month. Toni is one of six celebrities taking part in the event.

Italy is the worst affected country outside of China and the decision was made earlier in the week to suspend all sporting activity across the country until April 3.

The Serie A club confirmed their centre back Rugani has been infected by Covid-19 on Wednesday night and will undergo a period of isolation.

Selena Gomez has pleaded with her fans to 'stop tearing other women down' in the wake of releasing her new single, Lose You To Love Me.

Selena Gomez posted a sweet Instagram photo praising her friend Taylor Swift. The post came shortly after she deleted a plug for Kim Kardashian's SKIMS in a possible show of allegiance to Taylor.

Selena Gomez is a single lady and she is making sure everyone knows. The 27-year-old singer took to Instagram on Wednesday to clarify her relationship status.

Selena Gomez has re-followed Bella Hadid on Instagram, three months after the model split from The Weeknd for the second time. 

The singer, 27, and her collaborator, 25, received matching tattoos after performing together at the Fonda in Los Angeles. The tattoo artists documented the design process for their Instagram.

Last month, she released her lead single Lose You to Love Me from her upcoming album. The track became her first chart-topping single in the United States, climbing from number 15.

After a quiet and trying two years, Selena Gomez is dancing again. Just a week before the release of her sixth studio album, the 27-year-old is ready to make 2020 better than years past.

She may be the fourth most followed star on Instagram, but Selena Gomez wishes the app didn't exist and encourages younger generations to abandon their own identities.

Selena Gomez seemed to embrace the platform as she shared a series of three selfies on Monday. Leaving them caption-less, she showed off her curly hair do and perfect glam.

She's coming off the release of a starkly confessional album that revealed much about her past relationship. But this weekend she looked carefree with her mom in Chicago.

Selena Gomez hopped on Instagram Live to tell her 171 million followers how she has been spending her time amid the COVID-19 pandemic and California's Safer at Home initiatives.

Speaking to Miley Cyrus on her Bright Minded livestream on Friday, the 27-year-old singer said she was grateful to find out more about her mental health and wants to gain all the knowledge she can.

In the legal documents, TMZ reports, Gomez says a Flare magazine cover she posed for is used in the game and accuses the makers of profiteering off her fame.

Eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice over the weekend that the 23-year-old was once again following the Rare beauty on Instagram.

One day after Bella Hadid, 23, refollowed her former love rival Selena Gomez, 27, on Instagram, the catwalk stunner has reversed that decision and unfollowed the Wolves songstress once again.

Jeremy Corbyn has refused to launch a vote of no confidence against Boris Johnson after Jo Swinson urged the Labour leader to join forces with her to bring down the government.

John McDonnell claimed a former Labour MP who launched a stinging attack on Jeremy Corbyn is 'employed by the Tories', prompting a backlash and a demand for the shadow chancellor to apologise.

Nigel Farage today unveiled his party's plans to allow voters to hold a Brexit referendum every ten years.

Ex-Wakefield MP Mary Creagh said she confronted the outgoing Labour leader and told to 'apologise for what he'd done', after spotting him while in parliament to clear out her office.

Former Labour MP for Barnsley East Michael Dugher took to Twitter after Jeremy Corbyn's New Year message to compare the leader to Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda.

Matilda 'Sissy' Bridge battled leukaemia from the age of two-and-a-half and joined the NHS to work with those who helped her beat the cancer and care for others.

Rebel Wilson has been lazing on board a luxury yacht - and reminding fans of what they're missing.

Rebel Wilson sent a heartwarming message to her American friends for Thanksgiving on Thursday. 

Two of Australia's biggest stars are facing copyright infringement lawsuits.

She recently vowed to make 'positive changes' to her lifestyle in 2020, branding it 'the year of health'.

Rebel Wilson has downplayed her controversial joke about Prince Andrew and Megxit at the BAFTA Awards in London earlier this month.

Rebel Wilson has shared previously unseen footage of her fellow cast-mates kicking back behind-the-scenes on the set of Pitch Perfect. 

Rebel Wilson has shared some fun behind the scenes footage of an elaborate photo shoot, in which she poses as a mermaid. 

Sara Mujica, 17, went to visit her fiancé Victor Cruz, 19, in Honduras earlier this year and returned home to Danbury, Connecticut on March 30, with a fever and rashes all over her body.

Samantha Armytage revealed she has serious doubts about covering the Rio Olympics over fears of contracting or being exposed to the Zika virus, with plans to have children over the coming years

Taking to Instagram on Sunday morning, the 39-year-old Sunrise host decided to clarify herself after The Daily Telegraph reported she wants to have children 'in the next few years'.

She said earlier in the year that she wishes to have three children with her husband Michael Miziner.

Brazil should have seen thousands more babies born with shrunken skulls. But all of these cases are restricted to a northern region of the country. It suggests Zika alone may not cause birth defects.

Public Health England released a statement following reports of three people in West Yorkshire being treated for the virus after returning from overseas. It said the risk to the general public is low.

The patient, who has not been identified, was tested as one of the 26 close contacts around the two original cases. It means there are now 16 local transmissions of Zika in Miami, Florida.

It is not yet clear whether they Palm Beach County resident contracted the infection from Palm Beach mosquitoes or from insects during a recent trip to Miami, Florida, where there is a Zika outbreak.

This summer families have been warned to protect children with bug spray and clothing. But now the onus falls on teachers to protect the 7,600 students attending school in the two outbreak zones.