Former F1 driver murdered in Colombia

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Ricardo Londono Bridge, who hoped to become the first Colombian to race in Formula 1, back in the 1980s, has been killed in his native country. The 59-year-old was killed on Saturday along with two associates as they were leaving a spa in the town of San Bernardo del Viento, close to Cispata, where Londono owned a hotel. Two other men were injured in the shooting. Police and soldiers carried out operations track down the killers in the area but no-one was arrested. Londono had lost most of his $10m property empire in 2000 when the Colombian government seized it, claiming that it had been acquired using money made from drug trafficking.