Northern Ireland’s Tourism Minister is to enter talks to ensure an historic First World War battleship berthed in Belfast remains in the city.

POLITICIANS, military chiefs, relatives and hundreds of strangers bade farewell yesterday to Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man and one of Britain’s last survivors of World War I.

Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man, died today at the age of 113, his care home said.

EUROPE’s oldest man, World War I veteran Henry Allingham, marked his 112th birthday yesterday by enjoying a flypast of fighter aircraft from the Battle of Britain.

IF THE Keep Britain Tidy campaigners are to be believed, there has been a 20% rise in the number of rats on our sister island.

FOUR World War I veterans - the youngest of them 104 - have paraded in central London for the 90th anniversary of a conflict that killed around 10 million people and shaped the modern world.