A former aide to the US Republican congressman who resigned over a sex scandal plans to testify to a Congressional ethics committee that Republican leaders knew about the problem at least three years ago.

US politicians, following a request from the House Ethics Committee, are surveying aides and former House pages to find out if any of them had knowledge of ex-congressman Mark Foley’s inappropriate conduct toward male pages.

Investigations into an ex-congressman’s teenage online sex scandal were intensifying today as the Republican leader of the House of Representatives who has become embroiled in the political storm said he will not quit.

The leader of the US House of Representatives’ job is on the line as members of the House ethics committee decide how to launch a credible investigation of former Congressman Mark Foley’s salacious computer messages to teenage pages.

Galway 1-15 Cork 0-14

Andy Fordham has often been described as the “Jimmy White of darts” after several failed bids to win the world crown – but the gentle giant can finally throw that tag away now.

CROWD favourite Andy Fordham finally ended a 10-year wait for the top prize in darts last night when he defeated Mervyn King in the final of the Lakeside World Championship at Frimley Green.