AN Irish couple have told their English neighbours to “kiss my arse” following a row over a housing development.

Neighbours of a planned housing development reacted angrily to a joke by developers that they would call the estate a rude name after objections to the proposals.

Television presenter Carol Vorderman criticised celebrity culture for idolising beauty as she appeared alongside her brother, who was born with a cleft lip, at a talk about the disfigurement.

An inquest has been opened into the death of a baby girl from a suspected methadone overdose in England.

A DOG lover has turned half of her £1.4 million (€1.7m) home into a luxury “kennel” for her Great Danes — complete with their own plasma screen TV, lounge and spa, it was revealed yesterday.

Donated kneeler cushions promised to a church by actress Liz Hurley are yet to arrive nearly a year on from her wedding, parishioners said today.

A search has been launched for a teenager missing since the height of the floods, police in the UK said today.

AN American woman who thought she had found love on the internet told yesterday how she had flown to Britain to search for her man after he suddenly stopped emailing her.

Royal Hector looks set to return to novice comany at Cheltenham on Saturday for the first time since he joined Martin Pipe’s stable.