A woman has died following a pile-up involving around 20 vehicles on a major road in England.

Disney’s films can have a strong cultural impact, so it’s important that Moana continues the trend for smart, dynamic heroines, writes Declan Burke

The success of Disney's live action Cinderella and The Jungle Book for the big screen has started a new trend at the house of mouse - remaking its classic animated films with real actors and stuff.

Lebanon has rarely been out of the news since the 1970s but through all the years of political turmoil and refugee crises, there has always been one annual event to celebrate: the arrival of the new vintage of Chateau Musar.

She did use a very underhand tactic, however.

Girl challenges Disney’s Gaston to an arm wrestle - and wins

No one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick as Gaston...

Of all the Disney characters to challenge to a push up contest, why would you pick Beauty and the Beast’s Gaston? Why not Goofy? Or Pinocchio?

This little girl went to Disney World Florida and put the big sexist baddie in his place.

Under-fire West Brom boss Alan Irvine believes his side’s gruelling goalless draw at Hull will provide a timely tonic as the Baggies prepare to head into the busy festive fixture programme.

SHE has always wanted to meet a princess and last September, Mairéad Sparkes’s dream came true.

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Jerry Sexton, younger brother of Lions out-half Jonny, has joined his sibling in making a move to French club rugby.

Ex-Munster hooker Denis Fogarty has been named in the French Pro D2 team of the season after an excellent first year with Aurillac.

I’m especially good at expectorating, sings Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, and the hunter’s skill with a well-aimed spit is just one more indication that he’s the villain of the piece.

Southampton have completed the signing of Gaston Ramirez from Bologna for an undisclosed fee.

Bologna have put a price tag of over €25m on coveted playmaker Gaston Ramirez, according to the player’s agent.

A treatise on masculinity masquerading as a fairytale love story, The Lucky One (12A) stars Zac Efron as Logan, who finds a picture of a beautiful blonde woman while serving as a Marine in Iraq.

More than 20 years after ‘Beauty And The Beast’ became the first animated feature to contest the Oscar for Best Picture, Disney’s “tale as old as time” returns to multiplexes in a glorious new 3D print.

Such is the Disneyesque look and feel of the Swiss lakeside city of Lucerne that one almost expects to encounter Beauty and the Beast’s Belle sauntering through its medieval streets with her nose stuck in a book, studiously avoiding the overbearing advances of the otherwise curiously attractive Gaston.

NEW South African signing Tonderai Chavhanga gave the Newport Gwent Dragons plenty to cheer about in their RaboDirect Pro 12 clash with Ulster at Rodney Parade.

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RUAN PIENAAR was the hero for Ulster at Firhill, his man-of-the-match haul of all 22 points ensuring his side snatched a last-gasp victory against a typically dogged Glasgow side to climb to second in the Magners League.

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Miley Cyrus has fuelled reports she's rekindled her romance with ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas after spending another intimate evening with the Jonas Brothers star.

Leinster captain Brian O'Driscoll has been passed fit for their Heineken Cup game against Castres tonight.

Hugh Jackman was left red-faced during a stage stint as Gaston in 'Beauty And The Beast' - when he peed himself in front of a packed house.

DANNY CIPRIANI and Josh Lewsey produced a neat one-two combination punch to floor Castres as Wasps opened their Heineken Cup campaign with an emphatic home victory yesterday.

Ex-members of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists who quit over his power-sharing deal with Sinn Féin are in talks about forming a new alliance, it emerged today.

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A GAY clergywoman is to make history when she takes part in England’s first same-sex wedding by marrying her long-term partner.

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Nearly half a million people were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Frances swirled toward Florida today just three weeks after Charley’s devastating visit, threatening to deliver the most powerful double punch to hit a state in at least a century.