FROM elation to frustration.

Football’s attitude to sacking managers is “arrogant” and the statistics on dismissals are “embarrassing”, the League Managers’ Association claimed today.

Tottenham could be without several of their stars, including Emmanuel Adebayor, for this weekend’s north London derby at Arsenal, manager Harry Redknapp has revealed.

You wouldn’t bet against Tottenham going on to lift the FA Cup in May, especially as a home draw with Bolton Wanderers awaits them in the quarter-finals.

Police have arrested three suspects over the murders of a mother and daughter beheaded during a home invasion.

STROKE-related hospital admissions increased by almost 90% following the launch of a public awareness campaign about Ireland’s third biggest killer disease, a study shows.

The Colorado Rapids have confirmed Danny Cipriani has joined them for training, fuelling speculation over the exiled England fly-half’s future.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has halved the three-year jail sentence imposed on a computer programmer who downloaded almost 16,000 child pornography images depicting children as young as four.

ONE of Britain’s most promising young footballers — praised by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as “outstanding” — will receive at least £4.5 million (€5.7m) compensation over a tackle which ended his career.

Footballer Ben Collett, described by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as an “outstanding” player, was today awarded more than £4.3m damages at the High Court in London over a tackle which ended his career.

The nuclear site at Sellafield has the chance to become a centre of international expertise following the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power stations, UK trade unions in the industry said today.

Union leaders in the UK were today seeking talks with the British government over reports that clean-up work at a number of defunct nuclear reactors is to be halted because of funding problems.

A 103-YEAR-OLD had her engagement ring stolen during a burglary at her home, police said yesterday.

Alistair Darling will address the UK's House of Commons today over claims that nuclear workers who died in the 1960s and 70s had body parts removed without their families’ knowledge.

British health and safety inspectors are investigating an incident at a recently closed nuclear power station in Suffolk which led to the escape of 40,000 gallons of radioactive water, it has been revealed.

Members of bar workers' trade union Mandate are picketing the premises of the Submarine pub in the Crumlin area of Dublin today.

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Hibernian 0 Hearts 4

Gordon Strachan fears the Old Firm’s dominance of Scottish football could be coming to an end.

HOLDERS Rockmount and Wayside Celtic will be in search of their third Pat O'Brien Cup when they meet in the FAI Carlsberg Intermediate Cup Final at Turners Cross on Sunday (ko 2.30pm).

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Bank of Scotland Premier League champions Celtic took advantage of an unexpected Rangers slip-up to regain pole position in the title race with a comfortable win at Hibernian today.

Wycombe midfielder Keith Ryan has been appointed caretaker player-manager after assistant boss Peter Cawley left the club at the weekend.

Rangers emerged victorious from an extraordinary afternoon at Easter Road that saw two men sent off and two penalties awarded.

A US soldier charged with deserting his unit in Iraq walked away from the war partly to avoid orders to abuse Iraqi prisoners, a court-martial was told.

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BELFAST-born ITV journalist Andrea Catherwood is to tie the knot in the autumn with her lawyer boyfriend, it has emerged.

Divergent signals on the state of US business left investors cautious and prices mixed on Wall Street today.

Northern Secretary John Reid has warned the UDA that if there is any more organised loyalist rioting in Belfast or any more pipe-bomb attacks on Catholic homes he will declare the group’s ceasefire void.

Northern Secretary John Reid has announced that he and his advisors will review the state of the UDA ceasefire following yesterday’s bomb attack on Catholic schoolgirls in north Belfast.

Police in Northern Ireland today defended their handling of a loyalist paramilitary group’s show of strength on Belfast’s Shankill Road at the weekend.

Police in Northern Ireland were tonight ordered to make a fresh assessment of a loyalist paramilitary group’s ceasefire amid fears of escalating sectarian violence.

A leading loyalist who was sent back to prison this week after the Northern Ireland Secretary suspended his early release license appeared in court in Belfast today charged in connection with the recent sectarian violence in the north of the city.

A new type of pipe bomb has been devised by loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, police revealed tonight.

UDA man Gary Smith, who was re-arrested and sent back to jail last week, is now being questioned by the RUC over a bomb hoax at a Catholic school in Ardoyne.

Northern Secretary John Reid has announced he is to return a loyalist ex-prisoner to jail.

Thousands of workers at shipbuilder Cammell Laird have left work worried about their jobs after the firm called in receivers.