Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson is considering standing in the British general election, it was reported today.

Russell Brand has called another grandparent on a radio show, sending up the lewd calls he made to 'Fawlty Towers' actor Andrew Sachs.

THINKING of the behaviour of the Cork train drivers this week brought Rudyard Kipling to mind. It was he who first coined the term “power without responsibility”.

Informal talks have opened between the UK's mineworkers’ union and the biggest rail union in Britain with a view to a merger, it was learned today.

Former National Union of Mineworkers president Arthur Scargill tonight insisted he regretted nothing about the 1984 strike and insisted that his union did not lose.

COMIC Dylan Moran and British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alistair Campbell are set to be the star attractions at this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast.

IF YOU have been hooked on the media humbug, transfixed by the internet bush fires, the spiteful glee that heralded the latest tawdry tales from football across the water, then Ronald Reng’s The Keeper Of Dreams should yield another few salacious slivers.

Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson was set to marry his long-term love today.

The warring parties in the dispute which threatens to split football were due to meet today to attempt to find a solution before the matter ends up in court.