Horses in the Grand National will be allowed to wear headphones so they can listen to music, the Mirror reports - in a story “confirmed” by the music streaming firm Deezer’s spokeswoman, Avril Foal (top marks there).

Different accounts Figures shared by the Metro Washington subway system: 193,000 trips had been taken on Donald Trump’s inauguration day, compared with 513,000 during the same period when Barack Obama took office. Sean Spicer’s, Trump’s spokesperson - Trump had given his inauguration address to a “massive field of people … packed”, he estimated, with between 1 million and 1.5 million people. Trump said, the crowd stretched “the 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument” A television network he didn’t name had broadcast a shot of “an empty field” and put the crowd at 250,000.