Just a few days after winning two awards at the US Billboard Music Awards, Irish singer/songwriter Hozier was yesterday honoured on this side of the Atlantic with one of British music’s top accolades.

Your guide to this evening's best TV programmes.

Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, Bear Grylls and Joy Divison

Brian O’Driscoll’s latest book supposedly makes for an interesting read when digested in large chunks, but the extracts have fallen well short of Roy Keane’s on the Richter scale.

Kate Winslet has criticised actresses who complain about the difficulties of juggling work and home lives.

Around our place everybody has nicknames which stick for life.

Kate Winslet is planning to "take some serious risks" with her career.

Kate Winslet is still "haunted" by her nude scene in 'Titanic'.

Kate Winslet has praised other mums who do their best to balance their professional and personal lives by not neglecting their career or children.

Kate Winslet has blasted her pregnancy critics.

Kate Winslet has named her son Bear.

The A-list couple are said to have been secretly meeting up at their mutual friend Shannon Woodward’s flat, despite calling time on their relationship earlier this year.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart met up to discuss their dogs.

Kristen Stewart is “crushed” that Robert Pattinson has moved to Beverly Hills.

Kristen Stewart is seeking joint custody of her and Robert Pattinson's dogs.

Robert Pattinson is "showering" Kristen Stewart with affection.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have finally reunited after more than two months apart.

TV adventurer Bear Grylls has left the Discovery Channel after a row over “new programming”, his publicist said today.

Bear’s Very Snowy Day by Victoria Ball (€7.10 HB) is a glittery rhyming tale of Bear’s adventure in the snow.

Bear’s Very Snowy Day by Victoria Ball (Caterpillar; €7.10) is a cushioned-cover, tactile book for toddlers.

Cameron Diaz is to learn how to survive in the wild.

Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice, by Chris Wormell (Random House €13.03).

Robert Pattinson "freaked out" when he was about to buy a house.

Jamie Oliver and wife Jools are “thrilled” after their longed-for son was born yesterday.

WITH the Children’s Book Festival imminent, now is a good time to introduce the very young to the pleasure of reading.

A MAN who allegedly allowed his 11-year-old niece and 12-year-old nephew to attempt a 15km walk to their mother’s house on a freezing Christmas Day was arrested on a murder warrant in connection with the hypothermia death of the little girl.

Sizing Europe and defending champion Sublimity are among 17 declarations for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle on Tuesday.

Nick Gifford’s Christmas Hurdle winner Straw Bear may head straight for the Champion Hurdle without the aid of another run.

Straw Bear will enjoy an extended break before returning to racing in the autumn after pulling up in the Champion Hurdle last week.

Champion Hurdle winner Sublimity could be given an intriguing entry in the totesport Ebor at York, according to handler John Carr.

Straw Bear appeared right back to his best when posting an authoritative victory in the Bathwick Tyres Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton - but trainer Nick Gifford immediately played down his charge's Cheltenham Festival hopes.

Philip Hobbs’ Champion Hurdle contender Noble Request has been handed top weight of 11st 12lb in the totesport Trophy at Newbury on February 10.

Straw Bear emerged as a genuine Champion Hurdle contender with a smooth success in the Grade One wbx.com “Fighting Fifth” Hurdle at Newcastle.

NOEL MEADE has moved to silence the doubters after Iktitaf’s victory in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown on Sunday.

Conna Castle followed up his second to Straw Bear with a bloodless success over hurdles at Killarney and will be now be aimed at the Irish Independent Arkle at the Cheltenham Festival next March.

Jubilant trainer John Murphy will weigh up the options before deciding whether to step his brilliant two-mile chaser Newmill up in trip next season.

Iktitaf floored hot favourite Straw Bear to cause an upset in the VC Bet Champion Novice Hurdle at Punchestown.

Paul Nicholls, the season’s leading trainer, got off to a winning start at the Cheltenham Festival as Noland took the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.

Nick Gifford is hopeful the best is still to come from Straw Bear as the five-year-old gears up for his biggest test to date at Sandown on Saturday.

Straw Bear will bid to book his place at Cheltenham when he has his second start for Nick Gifford and JP McManus at Folkestone tomorrow.

A SENIOR US academic and an FBI consultant have separately rubbished claims by the Government’s chief science adviser that a renowned US degree mill was legitimate when he received a PhD there.