by Greg McDonaldOur hearts go out to the families of the young soldiers murdered in County Antrim this weekend. All involved in the fragile peace process must now strive to ensure it holds out. Ireland’s war ended many years ago, and those responsible for this atrocity are not warriors but common ...

Morning everyone, Saturday's selection Mr Thriller was unable to get us off to a pre-Cheltenham winning start as David Pipe's other runner Seven Is My Number was heavily supported for the Imperial Cup.As it was neither were good enough to stop Dave's Dream landing the Sandown prize, a tilt at the Co...

by Greg McDonald It was a terrible week for David Cameron, as his six-year-old son Ivan died after a brave battle with the rare illness Ohtahara Syndrome, leaving the Camerons and their two younger children grieving his loss. Prime Minister’s Questions was cancelled and Gordon Brown led tributes i...

by Greg McDonaldAlma Harding has been given a criminal record at the age of 63 for hitting a swearing teenager with her rolled up church papers. She should get a medal. Let me also commend 67-year-old ex-army boxer George Bayliss from Suffolk, whose pension a young man recently tried to steal. “I ...

by Alan TyersOne of the great criminal minds of our time has finally been caged. Paul Makin, a Brit, was captured at a Venezuelan airport carrying 24 kilos of cocaine. His explanation? He thought he was smuggling diamonds back to London. Paul, truly a Napoleon of crime, said that he and his ex-wife ...

By Greg McDonaldProps to BBC DJ Paul Gambaccini for having the courage to call for the sacking of boar-sized bore Chris Moyles, rightly calling the presence of such a prejudiced oaf on the BBC “unacceptable�. I’m no knee-jerk politically correct McCarthyite – I thought the Carol Thatcher sac...

By Alan Tyers Anything the players can cock up on the pitch, the administrators can cock up worse off it. Just a week on from the team being bowled out for 51 by the West Indies, the English Cricket Board has, in the players’ parlance, “come to the party� as it emerges that Sir Allen Stanford,...

Cricket moans about the increasing obsession with Twenty20, but events at Antigua will only increase the migration from Test cricket. Farce doesn't begin to explain the abandonment of day one of the second Test after just 10 balls. A shambles is perhaps more apt. Embarrassing, disgraceful, incompete...

It would be a massive surprise if Warren Gatland didn't have the biggest smile come 7pm at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Such is the gulf between his Welsh side and England at present, they would be overwhelming favourites to win even if the match was played at Twickenham. Against a weak Italy...

By Greg McDonald To catch the frozen panic in the voice of your local radio station host as the news blows in that (oh sweet Jesus!) Bramblewood Primary School is “closed until Wednesday!�, you’d think it was the Russian airborne division that had landed in London overnight rather than a few i...