A hospital in Wales has had to start chaining toys to the beds of sick children after a spate of thefts.

It is the picture that tells a thousand words. The relief and anguish is written all over his face as he clutches his tiny son to his chest.

An Irish father who lost three of his four children in a car crash in Denmark last summer has described the €1,340 fine handed down to their killer as “somewhat light” given the consequences of his actions.

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LONG gone was the awkward curly-haired teenager with braces, fiercely protected from the media during her White House childhood. Gone too, the determinedly private young woman who spent much of her twenties in denial of her status as a public figure.

Impressionable young barn owl Soren (Jim Sturgess) and his chick sister Eglantine (Adrienne DeFaria) hang on the every word of their father, Noctus (Hugo Weaving), when he tells them about the legendary guardians who have protected their feathered kind for generations.

Asia made a solid start in their bid to stage a successful defence of the Royal Trophy today after claiming a 2½-1½ advantage over Europe in the opening day's foursomes.

Denmark’s Soren Kjeldsen has been added to the European team for next month’s Royal Trophy.

Spain’s Rafael Cabrera Bello is not going to forget his first European Tour victory, however many more follow.

Dane Soren Hansen is the only member of last year’s Ryder Cup team not to have qualified for next week’s Players Championship – golf’s unofficial fifth major - in Florida.

Cup comes before cash for Justin Rose this week – even though it means battling with the wind and rain in Holland rather than basking in sunshine in New Jersey.

Scotland’s Alastair Forsyth was simply glad there was no halfway cut after an opening 76 but he now goes into the final round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship just one shot off the lead.

After probably the greatest shot of his life Danish golfer Soren Hansen is in position to put the worst year of his golfing life firmly behind him tomorrow.

Claremorris-born Cameron Hanley steered the eight year-old grey Siec Livello into a creditable second place in the Copenhagen Grand Prix this afternoon.

Retief Goosen and Anders Hansen maintained their two-stroke advantage at the top of the leaderboard early on the third day of the Dubai Desert Classic.

Thomas Bjorn was second in last year’s American Express Championship but admits there is no chance of a repeat performance in San Francisco this week.

Just 56 players were left in the Volvo Masters as it started its delayed second round at Valderrama today.

Ian Poulter arrived in America today with “massive expectations” of himself in the USPGA Championship.

AN UNUSUALLY high number of Europeans, 22, will compete in the 84th US PGA Championship, the last of the season’s four majors, at Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota, beginning on August 15.