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They say you should never meet your heroes, but this dog looks pretty happy after meeting his.

British holidaymakers are being charged more to go to Disneyland Paris than their French counterparts, the European Commission has said.

ENGLAND: A fathers’ rights campaigner has written a five-star TripAdvisor review of his accommodation after spending more than a week 55m up the Tyne Bridge.

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People with disabilities will no longer go straight to the front of lines at Disneyland and Walt Disney World after growing abuse of the system, park officials said.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning a Disneyland vacation.

A disabled man has been awarded $8,000 (€6,107) by Disneyland in California after the “It’s A Small World” ride broke, stranding him for three hours while its theme song played continuously.

Ah, beware the kindness of friends… Planning my journey to Paris three years ago for the game which would go down in infamy as the one touched by the ‘Hand Of Gaul’, I cheerfully followed the advice of a colleague and booked into what sounded like a nice, friendly, conveniently located hotel on the left bank of the Seine.

A Belfast-born academic has accused his native city of “coarsening” the legacy of the Titanic as part of a “commercial drive to promote and to attract tourists to the city”.

The kids were watching television at home the other night when one of those ubiquitous advertisements for summer holidays burst onto the screen.

THIEVES broke into the home of a four-year-old cancer sufferer and stole his spending money for a dream holiday.

Walt Disney executives and their Shanghai partners used golden shovels to break ground today for a long-sought Chinese theme park that will feature the world’s biggest Magic Kingdom castle.

A cleaner at Disneyland Paris has died after a ride he was working on was accidentally turned on.

FESS PARKER, who launched a craze for coonskin caps while playing famous American pioneers Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, has died of natural causes. He was 85.

Michael Jackson’s ’Captain EO’ is moonwalking back to Disneyland.

The ‘Celebration’ singer Madonna flew to Malawi yesterday - where she was joined by daughter Lourdes, 13, son Rocco, nine, and her two adopted Malawian children, David and Mercy, both four – with so many toys, bouncy castles and rocking horses that amazed onlookers joked their Kumbali Lodge apartment resembled the famous theme park.

Recently deceased pop star Michael Jackson is set to be honoured at Disneyland.

A TRAVEL operator was accused of living in Disneyland if he believed the state’s aviation regulator would let him fly hundreds of children and their parents to Lapland to meet Santa Claus this month.

Teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus is to stage her sweet 16 birthday party at Disneyland in California.

French police are investigating the death of a 14-year-old Spanish girl who lost consciousness while riding a roller coaster at Disneyland Paris.

This year’s French Grand Prix will be the last at the Magny-Cours circuit.

Don Edgren, a US engineer who led a team building the first Space Mountain and had a role in building various Disney parks, has died at the age of 83.

THE Irish have always been a nation of emigrants, but if there is one day of the year when our global popularity reaches a new crescendo, it’s St Patrick’s Day.

BORD BIA is to match the magic of Disneyland Paris with promotions of quality Irish beef and dairy products at the holiday centre today.

Tourism chiefs are going green this week to attract Disney fans to Ireland.

Hong Kong Disneyland held its opening ceremony today, marking Mickey Mouse’s biggest thrust into China – a market the US company hopes will flood the theme park with tourists from the world’s most populous nation.

Mickey Mouse was preparing for the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland tomorrow.

Many Hong Kong residents are ready to give Mickey Mouse a big hug for bringing a new Disneyland to their city – but others would like to give the black grinning rodent a punch on the nose.

Scarlett Johansson's claims of getting caught up in a traffic accident while trying to escape the paparazzi have been challenged by a photographer who witnessed the crash.

A rollercoaster train rear-ended another on the California Screamin’ ride at Disney’s California Adventure theme park early today, injuring 15 people.

Wood-eating insects have chewed their way through beds, coffee tables and night stands at one of two hotels at Hong Kong Disneyland.

Hong Kong Disneyland is expected to draw its daily maximum of 30,000 visitors on its opening day, with a third of the guests coming from mainland China.

Hong Kong Disneyland is considering serving only shark fin soup made with fins obtained by non-cruel methods.

Thurl Ravenscroft, who provided the rumbling “They’re Grrrrreeeat!” for Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger ads and voiced a host of Disney characters, has died in California, at the age of 91.

A string of celebratory events will be held this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Disney park.

LIMERICK’S much-maligned image got an unexpected boost this week when the city won an international tourism award.

Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride was closed indefinitely today following an accident that left three people needing hospital treatment.

The Walt Disney Company chief executive Michael Eisner has been compared to the hunter who bagged Bambi’s mother, but he is also responsible for the firm earning $1bn in the first three months of its financial year. Kyran Fitzgerald reports.

John Hench, a long-time Disney artist and the official portrait painter of Mickey Mouse, has died. He was 95.

A locomotive broke loose on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad rollercoaster at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, killing a man and injuring 10 other people, officials said.

SUNCARS, one of the largest car rental brokers, recently launched a new brochure.