A SURPRISE 50th birthday break lasted a week longer than planned for a German family who finally got home yesterday after flights resumed at Cork Airport.

CLONMEL-based Galloglass Theatre Company is returning home next week after a triumphant tour with its latest production.

The daughter of screen legend Marlene Dietrich has slammed Gwyneth Paltrow for accepting the role of her mother in a forthcoming movie - insisting the star is "too thin".

Veteran actor David Jason has refused to revisit his beloved Only Fools and Horses character Del Boy, after deeming himself too old to play the cockney conman.

Norman Jenkinson, news editor of the Belfast Telegraph during the worst years of the violence in the North, has died. He was 69.

Gwyneth Paltrow is to star in a new biopic of actress Marlene Dietrich.

After making a fool of himself on national TV by proposing to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) and being turned down, Dek (Rhys Ifans) doesn’t think things could get any worse.

Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson was set to marry his long-term love today.

A middle-aged British couple were today beginning a month-long jail sentence for cutting down a hedge in breach of a civil court injunction.

Ten years after Marlene Dietrich’s death, her native Berlin today named her an honorary citizen of the city.