POP singer Eddie Fisher, whose voice brought him a devoted following of teenage girls in the early 1950s before marriage scandals overshadowed his fame, has died at age 82.

WITH apologies to the so-called Madchester rock scene of the late eighties, when the likes of the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays first stalked the land, it’s surely past time that the name Mad City entered the football lexicon.

Officials at Down Royal are excited about the prospect of top-class racing at their two-day festival this weekend.

A bomb alert which forced the abandonment of Down Royal’s biggest meeting of the year was found to be an elaborate hoax.

A bomb alert which forced the abandonment of one of Northern Ireland’s top horse racing meetings was today declared an elaborate hoax.

When it comes to Hollywood re-making classic films from the past, this one must stand out as the least necessary.

A TERROR suspect whose arrest led to the death of a police detective was a failed asylum seeker on the run from the authorities, it emerged yesterday.