Veteran actor Sean Connery has undergone an operation to remove a tumour from his kidney, it emerged today.

Screen legend Sean Connery will lead 10,000 bagpipers through the centre of New York in a record breaking parade next month, organisers said today.

A phone call made by British Prime Minister Tony Blair appears to have won a breathing space for a US-owned mobile phone factory where up to 3,000 jobs are under threat.