Weekend preview: Godolphin riders renew rivalry at Kempton, where both should score, while Thimaar can take the Queen's Prize

Manager Jamie Pitman has been sacked by League Two strugglers Hereford less than 48 hours after clinching the club's first home win since October.

Hereford Road treads in the footsteps of Fergus Henderson. But can it fill his shoes?

Though Paul Nicholls has already broken the £1m barrier, and holds a lead of nearly £300,000 over Nicky Henderson, both trainers know that the championship will not be settled until the spring Festivals.

Crawley returned to the top of League Two last weekend and the common assumption is that the Red Devils are there to stay, but we fancy they could run into a few problems against Crewe on Saturday.

One in eight primary schools have failed to reach a minimum government target for getting 60 per cent of their pupils to read, write and add up properly by the age of 11.

Ben Cooper has been appointed Andy Parfitt's successor as controller of Radio 1.

A wave of canine kidnappings has been sweeping across the UK. But now a specialist search-and-rescue team is helping pet-owners to bite back. Tom Peck reports

With the first Classic races of the year just over a month away, honesty was the policy on the Newmarket gallops yesterday as two of the town's trainers issued warnings over the participation of high-profile Qipco Guineas candidates. For David Simcock, dry underfoot conditions are a concern for the colt Dream Ahead; for Sir Mark Prescott, the very well-being of the filly Hooray is proving vexatious.

Jim Gannon has parted company with Port Vale after just three months and 15 games in charge at Vale Park.

The name Albert Heijn is as familiar to the Dutch as Sainsbury is to the British, being that of the biggest supermarket chain in the Netherlands. It is similarly well-known in pockets of the Welsh Marches, where the grandson and namesake of the company's founder lived for the last 20 years of his life, investing part of his fortune in redeveloping a run-down part of Hereford, becoming one of Hereford Cathedral's leading benefactors, and restoring the neglected North Herefordshire estate of a Victorian coal baron to its original grandeur.

A 15-year-old girl was crushed to death by her horse after it somersaulted over a jump during a riding lesson, an inquest heard today.

The clouds that lingered so coldly over the Turf in midwinter have begun to reveal their silver lining, with trainers now finding themselves obliged to get a run into Cheltenham Festival candidates literally any day of the week. Today, for instance, the North's leading candidate for the RSA Chase shows up at Bangor-on-Dee, while yesterday two of the strongest stables either side of the Irish Sea were simultaneously fielding candidates for the big novice hurdles at the Festival.

Stanhope has been appointed to develop a 250,000 sq ft town-centre shopping area in Gloucester.