Andy Murray has warned the Australian Open it risks damaging the reputation of tennis after players were forced to play in searing heat in Melbourne yesterday.

A senior British counter-terrorism police officer was found guilty of misconduct in public office over a call to the News of the World to discuss an investigation into phone-hacking by its reporters.

It has emerged that a Wicklow man was responsible for a sing-off between Irish and Croatian fans in Poland, the video of which has gone viral after it was posted on YouTube.

A WOMAN who walked free from court a decade ago after the attempted mercy killing of her husband has ended her own life in a Swiss clinic, it emerged yesterday.

A field of just 44 will be chasing three places in July’s Open Championship at St Andrews tomorrow and Friday.