The legendary Fergie Sutherland, best known as the trainer of the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, died yesterday in Marymount Hospice, Cork following a long illness. He was 81.

Prince Harry is the loose cannon of the royal family whose antics have regularly made headlines.

A team of elite American commandos slid down ropes from helicopters into the compound where Osama bin Laden was hiding before shooting the al-Qaida leader in the head after he opened fire on them, US officials revealed.

TAKING part in ceremonial duties for the royal wedding will be a family affair for the Irish Guards, its members said yesterday.

BRITAIN’S Prince William graduated as a Royal Air Force pilot yesterday after successfully completing an intensive flying course.

A British soldier killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan was named by the Ministry of Defence today as Major Alexis Roberts, serving with 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

PRINCE HARRY will not deploy with his regiment to Iraq, the head of the British Army said last night.

ONCE-raced In A Rush can land the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Median Auction Maiden at Killarney tonight.

PRINCE Harry, third in line to the British throne, is getting his wish to serve in Iraq.

James Blunt and the Kaiser Chiefs triumphed at the Brit Awards tonight.

A radical Muslim cleric accused of stirring racial hatred, Abu Hamza, told the Old Bailey today that the case against him was politically motivated.

Alleged race hate cleric Abu Hamza today revealed he kept plans of the royal military academy Sandhurst which he admitted would be “very crucial to any terrorist”.

British royal Prince Harry is determined to fight for his country if called upon to do so.

An undercover journalist posing as a security guard at Wimbledon tennis tournament has been arrested by police, it emerged today.

British Defence Secretary John Reid has demanded an investigation after a newspaper reporter walked around the grounds of military academy Sandhurst and built a fake bomb device.

SURVIVING World War Two veterans joined thousands of people at events across Britain yesterday as the nation marked the 60th anniversary of VE Day.

BRITAIN’S Prince Harry described his delight last night at making it to Sandhurst to train as an officer.

BRITISH mercenary leader Simon Mann, with whom Mark Thatcher is allegedly involved in a coup plot, was jailed for seven years in Zimbabwe yesterday for conspiring to buy weapons.

British mercenary leader Simon Mann, a neighbour of Mark Thatcher, was jailed for seven years in Zimbabwe today for conspiring to buy weapons of war.

A former captain in the SAS, accused by Zimbabwe of leading 70 suspected mercenaries in a coup plot against Equatorial Guinea today admitted attempting to possess dangerous weapons and faces ten years in prison.

FORMER royal butler Paul Burrell last night defended his controversial book on Princess Diana and pledged there were some secrets he would never tell.