As the Premier League reaches its halfway stage we assess who’s top of the class and who needs to try harder.

CHELSEA have denied that Ashley Cole taunted Manchester City’s players immediately after Monday night’s 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge.

TV news anchorwoman Anne Doyle’s decision to take redundancy from RTÉ has provoked much in the way of public comment.

Denise Van Outen has pulled out of ‘OK! TV’ - just three days before it is due to launch.

Justin Lee Collins has split from his wife of seven years.

Former 'Big Brother' presenter Davina McCall said she thinks the show could be revived but ruled out returning as host.

HOPEFULLY, by the time you read this, the Luiz deal will have been completed.

The Stig is joining rival show ‘Fifth Gear’.

Talks between the company that owns the rights to 'Big Brother' and Channel Five are reported to have stalled.

Peter Andre has been warned ITV2 will not enter a bidding war when his show's contract ends.

Fans are being given the chance to appear in the TV show which made Kylie Minogue a household name.

Channel Five parent RTL is prepared to offer a cash incentive to sweeten its bid to merge with Channel 4, it was reported today.

SCIENTISTS have proven our grandmothers were right after all — eating fish will increase your brain power.

READING Fergus Finlay’s column (Irish Examiner, October 24), I was reminded of Bob Dylan’s line: ‘Maybe someday I’ll remember to forget.’

Postman Pat owner Entertainment Rights today said the loveable postie’s march across the globe had helped it to another year of record profits.

Former children’s TV host Keith Chegwin has announced his new venture: a bingo website.

Manchester United chief executive David Gill insists the Old Trafford club remain committed to the collective sale of Premier League TV rights.

BBC broadcaster Michael Buerk has complained that the “shift in the balance of power between the sexes” has gone too far, saying “life is now lived in accordance with women’s rules”.

London shares ended Wednesday in the black after recovering from a late downturn sparked by Wall Street.

Publishing group United Business Media (UBM) has agreed to sell its share in Channel Five to RTL for £247.6m (€356.8m), it announced today.

British top-flight shares shed some of their gains today after investor interest in oil group Royal Dutch Shell subsided.

BROADCASTER TV3 made its first profits last year after seven years on air.

ITV put its recent ratings woes behind it today by unveiling a 57% rise in profits in its first full-year results as a unified company.

Tony Blair said today that he was determined to pull the United States “back into dialogue” over the need to tackle climate change.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is reportedly fuming over a planned TV documentary about her - which will take an uncompromising look at her rise to Hollywood stardom.

A British TV documentary will shock Beatles fans with claims the Fab Four fathered a string of children before they married.

Gardaí were today hoping to speak to battered ex-footballer Stan Collymore who claims he was assaulted by up to six rugby players.

U2 frontman Bono is tempted to become a full-time politician, but would miss the salary and freedom of speech he enjoys as a rocker.

Stan Collymore dramatically quit The Farm today.

Channel Five has poached the BBC’s Million Pound Property Experiment design gurus Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan.

James Hewitt, the former lover of Diana, Princess of Wales, has won the Back To Reality television show.

Jungle lover Peter Andre will be popping in on the 12 celebrity contestants cooped up on the latest reality TV show.

Celtic manager Martin O’Neill has taken a swipe at the game’s authorities for loading them with a hectic fixture schedule before their Champions League Group A showdown with Lyon.

Sky have won the right to show the Heineken Cup for the next three seasons after outbidding the BBC and Channel Five.

Chris Evans’s return to Saturday night prime-time TV drew little over one million viewers, figures showed today.

England soccer star Michael Owen was today photographed scrawling his name in the bonnet of a new Jaguar car.

Channel Four has won the rights to broadcast cartoon show The Simpsons after a multi-million pound bidding war.