‘Dodgers’ is Bill Beverly’s dazzling crime novel that follows the blood-soaked journey of East, a Los Angeles gang member, and his three friends sent on a mission to kill a key witness. John Daly savours the grizzly tale.

Our Kind of Traitor 4/5

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A New York Winter’s Tale ***

Jodie Foster reportedly plans to tell her sons who their father is when they turn 21.

How Pádraig Flynn must rue his arrogant dismissal on The Late Late Show of Tom Gilmartin’s corruption allegations as those of a man “not well” and “out of sorts”.

Russell Crowe is thought to be in contention to star in 'The Winter's Tale'.

Victoria Beckham has given birth to a baby girl – the first daughter for the former Spice Girl and her husband David.

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

Horse racing tips from selected courses in the UK.

Beverley have cancelled their planned 3pm inspection for Tuesday’s meeting after conditions at the track improved.

BEHIND every successful man there is a woman, it has been said.

The Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences in the US is suing to stop the public sale of two Academy Awards given to silent film star Mary Pickford.

The man who shot dead a fellow Nasa worker before turning the gun on himself was undergoing a job review for poor performance and feared being sacked.

The man who shot and killed another NASA worker before turning the gun on himself was undergoing a job review for poor performance and feared being fired, officials said tonight.

Nasa is concentrating on a review of its security procedures as officials try to figure out today how a contract worker smuggled a handgun into the Johnson Space Centre, where he killed another employee and himself.

A 60-year-old Nasa contract worker took a handgun inside an office building at the Johnson Space Centre and shot dead a hostage before killing himself.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Beverly Flynn could eventually face a legal bill of €2.5m following an unsuccessful libel action against RTÉ in 2001.

The father of an Australian cowboy accused of fighting with Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban saw his son for the first time in five years today as a US military commission panel gathered to hear charges against him.

An Australian cowboy accused of fighting with Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban is next to go before a US military commission panel at Guantanamo Bay today, after the first hearing ended in a challenge to the members’ impartiality.

AT first sight, it might not seem that Beverly Flynn and Martin Cullen have a lot in common. She’s from a dyed-in-the-wool Fianna Fáil family and he’s a political waverer.

GONE in 66 minutes.

THERE can’t be many people waiting for court verdicts on two different continents at the same time, but then there aren’t many folk who had Red Bull wings before the energy drink was even invented.

FACING financial ruin, political ostracism and a lifetime of labelling as the TD who encouraged tax evasion, Beverly Flynn might have been forgiven for leaving the Supreme Court yesterday through a back door and behind blackened car windows.

The UK's premier soul sista Beverley Knight follows the Top 10 success of her single Shoulda Woulda Coulda with another belting ballad called Gold.

Fallen baseball star Darryl Strawberry spent four days on the run smoking crack cocaine with a woman from his Alcoholics Anonymous group, a probation report reveals .

The jury in the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial has been recalled to hear clarified points of evidence.