Amy was “an OK actress” and later a social worker and a psychotherapist before realising that her childhood love of reading and her parents’ jobs as journalists were clues to her true calling. She spoke to Sue Leonard.

THE wind in the beech tops sounds like an overhead railway rocketing down a tunnel, but on the ground there isn’t a puff of breeze and the water in the pond is mirror-still.

Breaking Bad, Gatsby and Game of Thrones have all inspired baby names in the UK this year, while the desire not to be seen as a “Kate copycat” had led to a decline in the popularity of royal names, according to website BabyCentre.

The mother of identical twin girls who each weighed just over 1lb when they were born has told of her joy at seeing her baby daughters tip the scales at a stone.

The mother of identical Irish twin girls who weighed just over 1lb at birth has told how her baby daughters show the miracle of modern medicine.

The birth of the prince of Cambridge was announced both on the easel at Buckingham Palace and on Twitter — and there were more than 25,300 royal baby tweets per minute just after the news broke.

A festival-goer capped off her time at Glastonbury in a special way – by giving birth.

SHE’S not even two days old, but Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby girl is already proving to be a diva thanks to the over-the-top security measures afforded her pushy, famous parents at the Manhattan hospital where she was born.

Peter Andre has been left “heartbroken” by the death of one of his fans.

ON the eve of a busy Guineas weekend at the Curragh, Johnny Murtagh bagged an early double on a rare visit to Wexford last night, scoring on Anam Chara and long odds-on favourite Yankee Doodle.

THERE will be plenty of tears and celebrations in Bandon tonight, no matter what the outcome of a unique Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup final at Garryduff this afternoon (2.30pm).

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The mystery surrounding Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s postponed wedding deepened today amid reports that the groom had cold feet at the last minute.