Evelyn Grant is a flute-player and presenter of Week End Drive on RTÉ Lyric fm. She is also musical director and conductor of the Cork Pops

Soccer superstar David Beckham has recorded an emotional Christmas message for British soldiers in Iraq, thanking them for putting his troubled year into perspective.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight told British troops and the Arab world that Saddam Hussein should pay for his crimes under Iraqi justice, and questioned why the dictator needed a huge clandestine network of facilities if he had no weapons of mass destruction.