People with regional accents should be protected from "accentism" alongside the fight against racism, ageism and sexism, it has been claimed.

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A Manchester City fan who stormed on to the football field to confront Rio Ferdinand at the end of last month’s Manchester derby has been banned from attending matches for three years.

Protesters in London attacked a police van today as crowds swelled during angry demonstrations against rising university tuition fees.

ULSTER RUGBY has named Bangor-based Shane Logan as their new chief executive following the resignation of Michael Reid early last month.

FOR YEARS the “inner hippy” in me has longed to go to a rock festival but I’ve always chickened out at the last minute for a variety of reasons — those huge crowds seemed scary and would I not look and feel completely ridiculous in the midst of all those be-bopping young people.

UNTIL the current furore broke, Lesley Douglas’s tenure as BBC Radio 2 controller had been marked with success.

There is no evidence of a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism according to a new independent virus study published in the UK today.

RENEWED calls for an investigation of possible links between a cluster of illnesses along Ireland’s east coast and the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster are likely, following confirmation that twice as much radioactive debris was discharged in the fire as was originally claimed.

A novel based on the lives of James Bulger’s killers tonight won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for young writers.

EMINEM is top of the league for kick-starting Premiership soccer teams, a survey has found.

Stockholm is the one Scandinavian city large and diverse enough to house a secret terrorist cell, an international security expert said today.

Mercury Music Prize nominee Gemma Hayes is to tour the UK and Ireland this autumn.

Teenage Fanclub have announced details of an Irish and UK tour.

A solicitor convicted of murdering her two baby sons has written a heartfelt letter proclaiming her innocence and the love she feels for her remaining son.

Women of a certain age are not the only ones affected by a ticking biological clock - female cockroaches feel it too, scientists revealed today.