Sophie Ellis-Bextor has signed up for 'Strictly Come Dancing'.

Sophie Ellis Bextor has given birth to a baby boy.

Sophie Ellis Bextor is pregnant with her third child.

IRELAND’S grocery market has contracted for the first time since August 2010, as prices continue to rise and discounters Aldi and Lidl continue to make inroads.

HUNDREDS of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike to defend their pensions, causing widespread school closures in a major challenge to the year-old government.

Students fighting to stop education cuts in the UK were divided tonight over the justification of violent clashes at the headquarters of the Tory party.

Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable died by choking on his own vomit, an inquest has found.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor feels old - but she likes it.

Sophie Ellis Bextor’s next lbum will be released in the autumn.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California after stormy weather prevented them from returning home to Florida for the second day in a row.

Bad weather prevented space shuttle Discovery from returning home and kept its astronauts circling the world for at least an extra day.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is glad she was a “freaky” teenager.

Sophie Ellis Bextor regrets buying lots of the clothes in her wardrobe.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has given birth to a baby boy nine weeks early named Kit Valentine Jones.

THE daughter of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is studying at a university in Hong Kong under an assumed name, a newspaper said yesterday.

A British photographer said today that the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe punched him repeatedly in the face after he tried to take pictures of her near a luxury hotel in Hong Kong earlier this week.

A CALIFORNIAN aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth.

Gala celebrations will mark the 40th anniversary of the moment many Israelis see as their most glorious – the dramatic unification of Jerusalem under their control in the 1967 Middle East war.

County Carlow 15 Blackrock College 18

Burton 0 Man Utd 0

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson paid tribute to non-league Burton Albion after they held his side to a goalless draw in the FA Cup and then admitted he was relieved to still be in the competition.

Israel today arrested 15 militants and prohibited most Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza from entering Israel in response to a suicide bombing that killed five Israelis a day earlier.

Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable is close to reaching a financial settlement with his former bandmates following his 2003 sacking.

WITH so many stars absent through injury the Woodies DIY National Senior Track and Field Championships at Morton Stadium over the weekend may not have left things straight forward for the selectors who will name the team for the world championships later today but they provided fans with plenty of entertainment.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor and her guitarist boyfriend Richard Jones married in a secret wedding in Italy last month.

Stewart Little in London

Frontman Kelly Jones has blamed the influence of marijuana on Stereophonics' disappointing fifth album - but promises to quit the drug for future studio recordings.

British singer Sophie Ellis Bextor is returning to the charts after giving birth - with a new name.

There were tears of joy at Dublin Airport today as some of the Irish tourists fleeing the devastated regions of South East Asia made it home.

Sophie Ellis Bextor is to marry her guitarist boyfriend Richard Jones next year after she accepted his proposal.

ROY KEANE will lead a youthful Manchester United XI in the Midsummer Challenge game against Cobh Ramblers at Turners Cross in Cork on Saturday night (k.o. 7.30pm).

Singer Sophie Ellis Bextor has given birth to a baby boy eight weeks early, it was announced today.

Gary Ridgway, the serial killer who terrorised Seattle in the early 1980s, tearfully apologised for “killing all those young ladies” as a judge sentenced him today to life in prison without the chance of release.

Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable is consulting lawyers about his sacking from the band, he said today.

Chart stars Stereophonics have parted company with drummer Stuart Cable, one of the band’s founding members, it was announced today.

The final moments on board space shuttle Columbia were revealed today as Nasa published transcripts of its last radio contacts with mission control.

AN American civilian was killed and another man critically wounded yesterday after a gunman sprayed their vehicle with bullets during an ambush in Kuwait.

As the Stereophonics prepare for their headline gig at Slane this month, P J Gibbons talks to frontman Kelly Jones about Wales, stardom and his love-hate relationship with the press

Wales clinched the triple crown in the Under-21's Six Nations Championship with a convincing 64-20 victory over Scotland at Caerphilly.