Dessie Hughes insists Our Conor “couldn’t be better” ahead of his second crack at Hurricane Fly in the BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown on January 26.

CELEBRITY couple Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman have settled their phone hacking claim against the News of the World — and now plan to take action against other newspapers.

Kerry Katona has been dropped as the face of supermarket chain Iceland following allegations that she took cocaine.

Newspaper websites owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation are likely to begin charging readers to use them within 12 months, the tycoon said.