Former politician Edwina Currie has backed Jake Quickenden to be named King of the Jungle after she was voted off I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

Rap star Tinchy Stryder and Playboy model Kendra Wilkinson were voted out of the jungle in a shock double eviction.

A scientist at Oxford University believes he's found the origin of the Yeti myth – the abominable snowman of the Himalayas – based on DNA evidence.

Tests on hair samples were found to have a genetic match with an ancient polar bear, with scientists believing there could be a sub-species of brown bear in the High Himalayas that has been mistaken for the mythical beast.

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TV presenter Melanie Sykes told fans she was “giddy” after announcing she is engaged to boyfriend Jack Cockings.

Eric Sykes, one of the most popular comic actors of his generation, was still staring in the West End shows into his 80s, even though he became almost totally deaf and nearly blind.

Turtle Bunbury is inviting you into his family’s stately home, Lisnavagh House, for a one-of-a-kind history festival,says Arlene Harris

Up to 75 jobs are to go at a Shannon-based technology support company.

LEINSTER duo Steven Sykes and Heinke van der Merwe appear to have been exonerated of claims they racially abused Northampton prop Brian Mujati during the friendly at Donnybrook on Friday.

PREMIERSHIP club Northampton Saints gained a small measure of revenge as they won this Heineken Cup final rematch at Donnybrook last night.

DAVY RUSSELL is the man to have on your side at Cork this afternoon.

RYAN MOORE didn’t half toss the toys out of the pram in the wake of Carlton House only managing third in last Saturday’s Epsom Derby.

LEINSTER have offset the upcoming departure of Scottish lock Nathan Hines to Clermont Auvergne by signing Natal Sharks second-row Steven Sykes, who wants to represent Ireland.

Leinster rugby have announced today the signings of Natal Sharks secondrow Steven Sykes, Connacht tighthead prop Jamie Hagan and Canterbury Crusaders outhalf Matt Berquist.

I READ with some confusion Tom Sykes’s column headlined ‘Dylan show proves he’s some jokerman’ (December 7). Mr Sykes claims to have spent €80 per head for tickets to see Bob Dylan at the 02 and returned to watch Kasabian there “almost a year after I watched Dylan”.

IRISH farms could be more productive, competitive and profitable if women were considered as senior partners in the family enterprise.

SPRINGBOKS coach Peter de Villiers yesterday accused sections of the British and Irish Lions travelling press of trying to whip up unnecessary controversy during the current tour.

US President Barack Obama served as comedian-in-chief over the weekend, predicting that his second 100 days in office will be so successful he will wrap them up in record time.

TROY BAYLISS moved in on his third World Superbike title after breaking his Donington duck on a chaotic day of racing.

CLOONE STREAM, from the in-form Charlie Swan yard, can round off proceedings on the most pleasant of notes by landing the concluding Bumper at Bellewstown tonight.

A FATHER and daughter who fell 80 feet to their deaths from a city centre car park were from a “happy, normal family”, police said last night.

Trainer Alan Berry won his claim for £903 (€1,360) when he sued owner Harry Sykes for unpaid invoices at Oldham County Court yesterday.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Northern Ireland today in a bid to re-energise talks on devolution.

Relatives of people murdered in the North amid claims of security force collusion were picketing military intelligence headquarters in London today.

RED OVATION is a hopeful choice to land the Derby Trial Stake at Glin, Co Limerick.

THE family of one of three women whose lives could have been saved if police had investigated serial killer Harold Shipman properly yesterday labelled the force as “appallingly incompetent.”

Two detectives whose investigation into serial killer Harold Shipman failed to spot his crimes were unfit to handle the case, the inquiry into his crimes ruled today.

The present system of coroners in England and Wales needs to be radically reformed, the Shipman Inquiry said today.

ABBEY National’s two million shareholders must be furious with company chairman Terry Burns, who fought such an aggressive battle to ward-off the takeover assault by Bank of Ireland’s chief executive Michael Soden.

A man was sentenced to a maximum 120 years in prison for a sex attack that left a nine-year-old child - known only as Girl X in court - blind, mute and crippled.