There are any number of variables which determine the winner of the world's greatest horse race, yet connections of Tiger Roll seem fixated he has been handed a pound or two more than is reasonable.

Tiger Roll has been given the green light to try for an historic third Randox Health Grand National win at Aintree on April 4.

We will never know if Tiger Roll would have won a third Grand National at Aintree on April 4 but we will get to see if he wins the 2020 Virtual Grand National with ITV planning to broadcast the race.

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

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.'

Shahab Dehghani, 24, an Iranian economics student at Northeastern University, was denied entry to the US and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country.

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.

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.

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 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.

Customs and Border Patrol agents have arrested a 32-year-old man from Mexico who was caught smuggling 26 illegal immigrants into the country Wednesday via a tractor-trailer in California.

Scott Morrison raged against the sudden scrapping of Holden in Australia, but he must have forgotten the Coalition Government forced the car marker to close its factories in 2013.

Erick Diaz Cruz, left and right in hospital, was shot on February 6 by an agent who was part of a team trying to arrest his mother's boyfriend. He had been visiting NYC on a vacation. Scene inset.

Odion Ighalo angered a student football team while he was participating in a solo training session over the winter break, according to The Sun. 

Octavio Martínez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, locked himself in his vehicle for three hours and refused to honor ICE's request to turn himself in outside his California home.

Critics of Boris Johnson's Government and his sweeping reforms to the troubled immigration system will have a new hero following Sir Philip Rutnam's incendiary walkout.

Maria De Los Angel Sanz Pimentel, a Dominican woman who is allegedly in the United States without a work visa, was taken into custody by several ICE agents after a raid in Brooklyn on March 1.

ICE officials said there were no detainees who had confirmed cases of coronavirus, and that canceling visitation was precautionary to 'further safeguard those in our care.'

New pictures circulating on social media purport to show massive queues of travellers waiting to pass a border checkpoint to enter mainland China after the centre of the outbreak moved to Europe.

Packed like sardines as they wait to clear immigration and collect their luggage, there was disturbingly little evidence of social distancing to help fight coronavirus at Heathrow Airport today.

A 37-year-old Mexican immigrant being held at the Bergen County Jail, which houses dozens of other undocumented migrants.

Safwat Abdel-Hady was reportedly set upon by a furious Lone Wolf bikie after complaining about 'widespread' drug use at the immigration detention facility in Sydney.

CBP agents detained 28 migrants from Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico during the search of a tractor trailer on Monday in Texas. The driver, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody.

Four Australian celebrants have devised unique and quirky drive-thru business models to ensure couples can still get married. Couples remain in their car at all times and prices start at only $400.

The Home Secretary announced last month that 2,800 medics will have 12 months added to visas. But the Health Committee heard today many workers doing 'essential' tasks would not be covered.

Michael Wildes helped secure US citizenship for both Melania Trump and her parents Viktor and Amalija Knavs as well as a green card for Melania's sister Ines.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has signed an executive order temporarily suspending all immigration into the United States amid the on-going novel coronavirus pandemic.

Priti Patel today signalled a fresh crackdown on illegal migrants crossing the English Channel as she also vowed to tackle 'vexatious' asylum claims.

Westpac fears a housing market recovery that began last year will be reversed because of COVID-19. Sydney's median house price has risen by 19 per cent since bottoming out in July 2019.

Border Patrol agents in found 36 unlawful migrants inside a truck during a road checkpoint on Interstate 35 last Thursday in Laredo, Texas.

The sixth former, who celebrated her 17th birthday on Friday, wed her boyfriend Martin Tiser on Monday in a traditional Nikkah ceremony in their home city of Bradford.

Zayn Malik has delighted his fans by dropping comeback single, Trampoline, in the early hours of Thursday.

The sixth former wed her boyfriend Martin Tiser in a traditional Nikkah ceremony on Monday 16 September in their home city of Bradford.

In the last selfie shared by Zayn - who often changes up his look - sported long, thick dark locks in a bedhead style, but has now chosen to go for the chop

Zayn Malik's younger sister Safaa, 17, has broken her social media silence after her wedding last month.

Liam Payne, 26, has opened up about his time in One Direction saying that he 'lived so long as this reclusive pop star who was afraid of people ... I needed to stop, definitely. It would have killed me.'

Her sister Gigi is said to be expecting her first child with boyfriend Zayn Malik. And it appeared Bella Hadid was helping out by taking control of the cooking on Tuesday night.

Bella's torso glistens with oil and she's wearing full makeup with her hair piled high on top of her head.

Sir Mo himself took to social media in March to make clear the advertisement by the UK-based company Diamond Mist had nothing to do with him.

Sir Mo Farah set a personal best for the half-marathon in the process of winning the Great North Run for a record sixth consecutive year yesterday.

Tania Farah, 33, has been married to one of Britain's most celebrated athletes for almost a decade. Now she is joining Sir Mo and taking to the track herself.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: There are growing doubts over Neil Black's future as the performance director of UK Athletics after he refused to rule out resigning after the Alberto Salazar scandal.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Sir Mo Farah has put the brakes on his marathon career to target a fifth Olympic 10,000m gold in Tokyo next summer.

Distance legend Kenenisa Bekele has revealed he will go head to head with Eliud Kipchoge in a fascinating clash of the titans at the London Marathon in April.

EXCLUSIVE REPORT BY ROB DRAPER: A former elite athlete believes her thyroid medication was mishandled by Rob Chakraverty, leading to issues which ended her career at the top level.

Sir Mo Farah faces a spicy showdown with former training partner Galen Rupp and controversial ex-coach Alberto Salazar after confirming he will run the Chicago Marathon on October 7.