• Alphonse Le Grande has race handed back on appeal
• Jockey Jamie Powell had been given 28-day suspension

Connections of Alphonse Le Grande have been successful in their appeal against his disqualification from first place in the Cesarewitch at Newmarket last month and he has been reinstated as the winner.

Apprentice jockey Jamie Powell was deemed to have used his whip 10 times in the closing stages , four more than the permitted allowance, and due to the value of the race the Whip Review Committee awarded the historic handicap to the Simon and Ed Crisford-trained Manxman, who had been beaten by a nose.

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• Manager says Scotland should seek to emulate Croatia
• Clarke’s side battling against Nations League relegation

Steve Clarke has warned Scottish football it must adopt a drastically different approach to youth development or risk falling further behind the world’s leading nations.

Clarke’s sterling work in charge of the national team – Scotland are in the top tier of the Nations League and have qualified for back-to-back European Championships – masks domestic concerns. Statistics relating to the lack of homegrown players, especially those aged under 21, in the Scottish Premiership are alarming. This contrasts starkly with the situation in Croatia, whom Scotland welcome to Hampden Park on Friday evening.

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Want to grab a bargain in the sales, but worried about bogus discounts and unsure where to start? Here’s how to make the annual shopping events work for you

Black Friday didn’t exist when I was a kid. In the 80s, the fourth Friday in November was just another chalk mark on the tedious stretch between Bonfire Night and Christmas. But Black Friday, which falls on 29 November this year, is now as much a British autumn staple as Strictly.

The cost of living crisis has played a part in boosting Black Friday’s popularity in the UK. More than half of shoppers now rely on discounts because of financial concerns , according to Mintel – and Black Friday is about nothing if not finding discounts. It has replaced Boxing Day and January as the top bargain-hunting bonanza of the year, with sales up 7.3% year on year.

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Oxford University research finds ‘ethnic background and social circumstances’ are crucial factors in cancer risk

British Bangladeshi men have the highest rates of lung cancer in England, according to a study that reveals clear patterns in how the disease affects different communities in the country.

Disparities that go beyond smoking have been revealed by Oxford University researchers’ analysis of 17.5 million people’s health records and 84,000 lung cancer cases.

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Counter-terrorism police chief tells of difficulty of search for vessel with poison after attack on Sergei Skripal

Hunting for the container of nerve agent used in the attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was like “searching for a needle in a haystack”, a counter-terrorism forensics chief has said.

Keith Asman, head of forensics and digital investigations for the police’s south-east region counter-terrorism unit, told the inquiry into the Wiltshire poisonings that officers combed the area around Skripal’s house for a small container of novichok and for discarded protective clothing the attackers may have used.

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The pop veteran answers your questions about the California ska scene in the 90s, making it big with No Doubt and finding love again with the country star Blake Shelton

Did you think Don’t Speak would become such a huge hit? Troy_McClure
I absolutely had no idea. It didn’t even represent what we were doing, because No Doubt were such an uptempo, live-energy band. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song. The original version was written by my brother [Eric, keyboards], who lived at my grandparents’ house; after they passed away, it became the band house. He’d stay up all night eating peanut butter sandwiches, drinking milk and smoking cigarettes and go: “Oh, I wrote this last night.”

Then I ended up rewriting the lyrics and changing the whole song because Tony [Kanal, bass] broke up with me. It’s crazy, but that song really is the heartbeat of who I am and changed everything. After it came out, we were driving through Israel and these guards came up to the van with guns, which I’d never seen anywhere before. One of them looked in the van and started singing Don’t Speak to me. That soon became normal.

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In this week’s Feast newsletter: Having friends over doesn’t have to be hard – try simple sides and skip the formality

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This is an extract from our weekly Feast newsletter, written by Yotam, Meera Sodha, Rachel Roddy, Felicity Cloake and others. Sign up here to get it free to your inbox every Thursday.

Sometimes, when friends come over for dinner, I start planning by picking out the serving plates. Strange as that may sound, this visual cue often sets the rest in motion: a wide ceramic platter for grilled lamb chops with ezme, yoghurt and cumin salt , say, or for a generous mound of lentils and chickpeas dotted with nuts and barberries. A splash of green here, a pop of orange there, maybe a touch of purple for contrast …

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Grenache: the wine grape that keeps on giving | Henry Jeffreys

Cocktail of the week: Corrochio’s espresso martini de olla

Joseph’s Brasserie, London: ‘Let’s celebrate’ | Jay Rayner

The Troublesome Lodger, Marlow, Buckinghamshire: ‘The antithesis of the big, corporate multi-seater’ | Grace Dent

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We’d like to hear your suggestions for the best way to retain a sunny disposition when it’s grey and dismal outside

As the nights draw in and we begin to enjoy less sunshine, it can be good to find ways to boost your mood. For Brits, it may be even more important than usual this year: England been experiencing particularly dreary conditions thanks to “anticyclonic gloom” – a weather phenomenon characterised by grey skies, mist and low cloud. The village of Odiham in Hampshire was reported to be one of the gloomiest in the UK , recording just 12 minutes of sunshine in the past 11 days.

With this in mind, we’d love to hear your tips for combatting the gloom. It could be cooking a dish that always makes your day feel a little brighter, or changing up your interiors to make time spent indoors more enjoyable. If there’s something which you find help you retain a sunny disposition, even when it’s grey and dismal outside, then tell us about it below.

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In interview 007 producer Barbara Broccoli says actor who takes on role will offer ‘something new and different’

The next actor taking on James Bond will be in his 30s and could be of any race, according to producer Barbara Broccoli.

In a new interview with the Associated Press , Broccoli has teased what we might be able to expect from the much-anticipated reveal of the next 007. The article states: “It will be a man. He’ll likely be in his 30s. Whiteness is not a given.”

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