Richard III’s remains may have been discovered in a car park in Leicester earlier this week but Owen Farrell would do well to pay greater heed to Shakespeare’s Henry IV ahead of England’s visit to Dublin this weekend.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will make one of the shortest but most significant journeys of her 57-year reign when she travels to Ireland later this year. It comes more than 150 years after the trips by Queen Victoria. Ryle Dwyer looks at the first visits of Victoria and her predecessor, George IV.

ROE deer have sandy red-brown coats in summer and grey-brown ones in winter, but an all-white individual has been born on a Scottish estate.

Movie star Tom Hanks arrived at the Cannes Film Festival today to promote the new Hollywood remake of classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers – then admitted he had never seen the original.