Cork County Council has signed off on a €1.025m deal to buy Mallow town park from two aristocratic brothers, one of whom was once private secretary to Britain’s Princess Diana.

FANCY a bargain?

IT mightn’t be Rudolf and the other reindeer frolicking on the lawn — but white deer with a lineage stretching back 400 years does have a touch of magic about it.

A FRIEND of Diana, Princess of Wales called yesterday for Prince William to put her former butler Paul Burrell "back in his pantry" to stop him revealing any more secrets about the British Royal Family.