Warehouse workers at retail giant Argos are to stage a three-week strike in a dispute over redundancy arrangements.

The British Grand Prix could be rubbed off the Formula One calendar after Silverstone’s owners triggered a break clause in its contract yesterday, claiming they have “run out of road”.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has accused Silverstone of "serious misjudgement and mismanagement" after the circuit's owners gave notice of their intent to pull the plug on Formula One.

An 11-year-old boy has died after he sustained serious electrical burns at a rail depot in Northamptonshire, police said.

A top beauty vlogger tells Katie Wright how she overcame a crisis of confidence and become an online star.

Lewis Hamilton will sit down with his Mercedes team in the coming days as he attempts to get on top of the car problems which are threatening to derail his challenge for a fourth title.

The new boss of department store chain Debenhams has unveiled plans to close 11 warehouses and put up to 10 stores under review, in a move impacting at least 220 jobs.

The date for the final of the 2017 Irish Greyhound Derby has been pushed out to the fourth Saturday in September to avoid a clash with the All-Ireland Football final. 

Patrick Leigh Fermor died five years ago this month, aged 96, and though he claimed to be part Irish, he was a man of the world, who walked from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul in his teens, and who later became a great travel writer, says Michael Duggan

USA: A man who claimed at trial that his “evil twin” robbed 10 petrol stations, convenience and beer stores in eastern Pennsylvania must spend at least 60 years in prison.

USA: A hen owned by a Massachusetts woman who specialises in chicken rehabilitation and rescue is getting fitted with a prosthetic leg at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

CHINA: A salad store paraded dozens of half-naked Western men dressed as Spartans through China’s capital as a publicity stunt, causing a stir and drawing a crackdown by police who were photographed restraining some models the ground.

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton praised his own pit-stop calls as he won an entertaining British Grand Prix and completed a hat-trick of home victories.

Lewis Hamilton won an incident-packed British Grand Prix to claim back-to-back victories on home soil.

USA: US basketball star LeBron James might need to call Janet Jackson to get some advice on handling wardrobe malfunctions.

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Footage of the moment a woman confronted two suspected burglars in her dressing gown before being subjected to an horrific attack has been released in an attempt to trace the culprits.

It has emerged that Scotland stopped taking Irish children into its care facilities in recent years because it did not have enough space for them in its care system.

Tony McCoy has one booked ride at Southwell today as he sets out on the road to what could be another 1,000 winners to add to the record haul of 4,000 he reached at Towcester with a trademark ride on Mountain Tunes.

Tony McCoy produced the kind of swashbuckling ride for which he has become so famed as he secured his 4,000th winner over jumps at Towcester yesterday.

Tony McCoy created history at Towcester when Mountain Tunes provided the jockey with his 4,000th career win over jumps.

Tony McCoy will bid to claim his 4,000th winner at Towcester today after moving to within one of the landmark total.

Jackie Stewart has called for an immediate relaxation of the in-season testing ban to ensure Pirelli crack their tyre woes.

Lewis Hamilton has grabbed pole position ahead of tomorrow’s British Grand Prix.

Two Irish internationals made history for the wrong reasons in the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship at Machynys Peninsula in South Wales yesterday.

Towcester’s meeting this afternoon must now pass a second inspection at 10.30am.

An armour-plated bus believed to have been used by “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher has sold for nearly £17,000, an auctioneer said today.

A British circus owner has been given a three year conditional discharge for causing unnecessary suffering to an elderly elephant.

There were swings towards Labour today as the party held its two seats in the parliamentary by-elections.

Jimmy Savile's headstone will be broken up and sent to landfill after it was removed late last night.

The headstone on Jimmy Savile’s grave has been removed after his family requested it be taken away out of “respect to public opinion”.

Scotland Yard will “work closely” with the BBC as it takes the national lead in assessing allegations against late TV presenter Sir Jimmy Savile, the force said tonight.

Two groups who thought they had been dropped from 'The X Factor' found themselves through to the judges’ houses as the 25 acts who had made it to that stage of the contest were revealed.

Cheryl Cole has revealed that she only returned to 'The X Factor' because judge and friend Gary Barlow asked her to.

Cheryl Cole returned to 'The X Factor' last night.

Cork’s Matt Griffin is upbeat ahead of this weekend’s fourth round of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Silverstone.