ANDREW Flintoff stamped his authority on the npower Test series with a devastating assault on West Indies’ inexperienced attack ensuring that England took control of the second Test at Edgbaston yesterday.

A fireman died in a hotel blaze which may have been started maliciously, it emerged today.

A Sinn Féin mayor today backed calls for a public inquiry into one of the worst IRA atrocities during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

The Irish cricket squad for the ECC Indoor Championships in Denmark in February has been announced.