BRITAIN: A man who pocketed £26,000 (€36,000) in disability benefits while winning golf tournaments and playing off a handicap of six has been jailed for six months.

In May 1954, English runner Roger Bannister broke the seemingly impenetrable barrier of the sub-four-minute mile, a month after his rival John Landy proclaimed it to be impossible.

A neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

A Dublin neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

British detectives are investigating after the wife and children of a Dublin-based surgeon were killed in a house fire in England.

A group of British tourists who were charged €64 for four ice creams in Rome have received an apology and have been invited to return to the Italian capital by its mayor.

Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t joking when he growled: “I’ll be back.”

Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday.

MORE than 100 EastEnders stars past and present were reunited yesterday in a tearful farewell to “icon for ordinary folk” Wendy Richard.

THE Football League have confirmed there is no prospect of the Coca-Cola Championship clash between Watford and Reading being replayed.

Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung has clinched a deal to become Birmingham’s biggest shareholder.

Birmingham directors David and Ralph Gold, David Sullivan, Karren Brady and Roger Bannister have agreed to sell 29.9% of the club’s shares to Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung.

An Arsenal and Republic of Ireland footballer accused of raping a law student after meeting her in a West End club told police who arrested him “I didn’t have sex with her", a court heard today.

Fresh evidence that higher interest rates are taking their toll on the British property market emerged today with figures showing slower growth in house prices.

The cream of British middle-distance talent will lock horns at Balmoral Castle next week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s first-ever sub-four-minute mile.

UK property prices rose by 6.7% over the past 12 months and are continuing to rise according to Nationwide's monthly house price index.

FOR some it was their first time, for others it was the umpteenth time, but for all it would prove the very last time they would ever fly on Concorde.

Concorde has completed its last passenger flight from New York to London.

The world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft bowed out in style today.

House prices surged ahead by a massive 3.4% in the UK during April - their highest monthly increase since records began, figures revealed today.

A British Airways’ Concorde will take to the air tomorrow on a first test flight aimed at putting the supersonic plane back into passenger service, the airline announced today.

A British Airways’ Concorde tonight underwent a 40-minute ‘‘taxi-ing’’ trial’’ at Heathrow Airport and ‘‘responded very well,’’ her chief pilot, Mike Bannister, said.

British Airways hopes to put Concorde back into passenger service by the spring following a modification programme costing £17m.