The coach of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes has revealed the 71-year-old explorer is overtaking people a quarter of his age during the Marathon des Sables.

Hugh Grant was reportedly taken to hospital after a health scare.

ACADEMICS on both sides of the Atlantic are now openly calling for the resignation of Government chief science advisor Dr Barry McSweeney, who is embroiled in continuing controversy over the origins of a doctorate he received in America.

WITH his €120,000-a-year job on the line, pressure is mounting on the Government’s chief scientific adviser to publicly explain a dubious PhD he received in America.

The Prince of Wales has made a surprise visit to a school in east Belfast during a two-day visit to Northern Ireland.