West Brom sponsor Zoopla has reportedly threatened to withdraw its lucrative shirt deal with the club unless Nicolas Anelka is axed from the team.

Brides-to-be breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when it became clear in the High Court that receptions they booked at the four-star Waterford Castle and Hotel will go ahead despite the financial crash of the complex.

'Dad dancing' and 'tweet' have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

AGEISM is the most common form of discrimination in the workplace in Ireland and is predicted to get worse when the retirement age is pushed back to 68.

A rare first class luncheon menu that survived the RMS Titanic disaster will go on display at a visitor centre in Belfast tomorrow.

Kiko Martinez made it to Belfast for fight week at the third time of asking, and at yesterday’s ‘Unfinished Business’ press conference vowed he won’t be leaving the city without his European title.

A Panorama documentary will tonight plunge the BBC into fresh controversy by claiming the corporation pulled an investigation into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal after coming under pressure from senior managers.

SATURDAY

One of the last letters from the Titanic is to go on display this summer at the new Belfast visitors’ centre dedicated to the liner.

An ecumenical church service to mark the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking was held at St Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh yesterday.

A minute's silence was held today as a memorial was opened in Belfast marking the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Landfalls

FOR four decades, the willful, mercurial figure of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been a thorn in the side of the West.

WHAT is it about older men that makes them irresistible — their wrinkles, their baldness, their slack muscle tone?

Freezing civil service pay in the North could cover £800m (€952m) of the massive savings the Stormont Assembly must make in its new budget, experts giving evidence to the Finance Committee have said.

Former World Champion Barry McGuigan is tipping his Super Bantamweight protégé Carl Frampton to follow in his footsteps by reaching the very top in the sport.

Wreaths were laid in Belfast today in memory of the hundreds who died in the infamous sinking of the Titanic.

EMBARESSED by yor spelling? Never you mind.

Trainer Michael Dods and jockey Phillip Makin teamed up to good effect as Ayr enjoyed a virtually trouble-free return to action.

JOE CALZAGHE has home advantage for his super-fight against Mikkel Kessler with the Millennium Stadium hosting the eagerly awaited showdown on November 3.

Bob Geldof's book "You're History" is being launched in Kilkenny today.

BBC correspondent John Simpson has become a father again at the age of 61, it was announced today.

AN Afghan warlord faces a life behind bars in a British jail after he was convicted yesterday at the Old Bailey of a “heinous” campaign of torture and hostage taking in his homeland.

The takeover of Allied Domecq will see a number of the most historic scotch whiskies coming under French ownership.

MORE than 3,500 writers, musicians and artists have been granted 100% tax exemption in the last seven years, it emerged yesterday ahead of the findings of a review being carried out by the Department of Finance.

More Iraqi civilians may have been killed by coalition forces and their allies than by insurgents, according to Iraqi government figures.

Here is the full list of winners from the second annual Irish Film and Television Awards, which were held in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.

Controversial actor Tim Robbins condemned the American government and media today for their role in the Iraq war and the subsequent campaign against terrorism.

Britain's Olympic champion rower James Cracknell was back in action today, at the Gramophone Record of the Year Awards.

The project team from Northern Ireland's Science Park has won the top prize at the Enterprise Networks Gala Dinner in London.

Every clown wants to play Hamlet, so it goes. Some of them, when given the chance, make a surprisingly fine job of it.

A plan for a massive £100m (€147m) regeneration of west Belfast and the greater Shankill areas was submitted to the British government today.

A Kurdish fighter was airlifted to a US military hospital in Germany overnight for treatment for wounds sustained in a friendly fire incident in Northern Iraq.

BBC journalist John Simpson was wounded today in an apparent friendly fire bombing of an American and Kurdish convoy that killed up to 12 people.

A convoy of American special forces and Kurdish civilians came under attack today in what witnesses described as another friendly-fire incident.

Britain came out on top at the International Emmy TV awards in New York last night, winning four of the seven prizes.

The Tories tonight called on the BBC to disclose what action it had taken to investigate claims by its senior foreign correspondent John Simpson that Downing Street had hacked into the Corporation’s computer.

In Britain, Downing Street's being accused of hacking in to the BBC's computer system.

Darren Clarke will play alongside world number one Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomerie in today's opening round of the Deutsche Bank SAP Open.