New Year’s celebrations across the world ushered in 2017 with dazzling fireworks displays and crowded streets amid tightened security measures for the festivities.

Lily Allen has confirmed a nine-date UK tour.

Bass player Mani has left Primal Scream to concentrate on The Stone Roses.

HAPPY New Year to all the readers of the Irish Examiner!

A FORMER loyalist gunrunner was murdered on New Year’s Eve in what Scottish police described as a frenzied attack.