A FLEET of 47 leggy beauties (though only eight are officially ordained Angels) recently landed in London for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, ready to strut their stuff while pop stars Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande performed.

Strictly Come Dancing pro Robin Windsor has pulled out of this year’s show as a result of a back injury – and is being replaced by Australian dance star Trent Whiddon

When the chips were down in Paris, England’s dinner-suited players found themselves cast in the role of hapless bystanders among the pilgrims in downtown Rome, near the Vatican.

Abbey Clancy has dismissed speculation about her relationship with her Strictly Come Dancing partner Aljaz Skorjanec.

Barbara Windsor is "tempted" to return to 'EastEnders'.

EVERYTHING was about to change dramatically for Brendan Fay.

Bookmakers will be taking flurries of bets on what the duke and duchess of Cambridge will choose to call the eagerly anticipated new prince or princess.

Barbara Windsor has refused to rule out a return to 'EastEnders'.

Queen Elizabeth is back in Ireland... but only in an exhibition to mark the first anniversary of last year’s historic, royal visit by the British monarch.

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BEING an outsider is never easy but with marginality comes the rarefied privilege of bucking trends or indeed, creating them.

AN auction of actress Elizabeth Taylor’s world-renowned jewels took in $116 million (€89.4m), more than double the record for a single collection and setting new marks for pearls, colourless diamonds and Indian jewels.

YOUR report headline of July 12 (“Bill for Obama and Queen visits almost double original estimate”) on the cost to the taxpayer accruing from the visits to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II and President Obama showed disrespect to the US president.

MYRON SIMPSON of the New Zealand national team claimed yesterday’s sixth stage of the An Post Rás from Castletownbere to Blarney with a stunning sprint victory into one of the most storied towns in Irish cycling.

ONE of the most interesting aspects of my day job is getting to hear wedding speeches before they are delivered.

A HALF-DAY off school? We should all get a full day off to give Mrs Windsor a proper welcome and to show her we have returned to the fold.

Landlady Peggy Mitchell gazes in despair at the charred remains of her beloved Queen Vic tonight - after her memories and livelihood went up in smoke.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia’s first minority government in 67 years after two independent politicians threw their support behind her centre-left Labour Party today.

Three “kingmaker” independent MPs had final meetings with Australia’s rival political leaders today before they decide who to elect prime minister of the nation’s first minority government in nearly 70 years.

FORGET the prime minister. Real political power in Australia right now is being wielded by a maverick in a cowboy hat and his two colleagues. A week after national elections ended on a knife edge, the unlikely trio of lawmakers have emerged as kingmakers.

A conservative political leader rejected key demands from three independent politicians who are likely to decide which party forms Australia’s next government after indecisive elections.

Three independent politicians who will likely decide which party governs Australia said today they plan to demand details of how much competing election promises would cost the nation over the next three years.

The leaders of Australia’s two major political parties began negotiating power deals with independent lawmakers today after the nation’s closest election in decades failed to deliver a clear mandate to govern.

Prime minister Julia Gillard said today no major party had won a majority of parliamentary seats in Australia’s general election and she had started negotiating with independent MPs in an effort to cling to power.

June Brown is missing 'EastEnders' veteran Barbara Windsor following her departure from the show.

Barbara Windsor doesn't want to know how Peggy Mitchell will be written out of 'EastEnders'.

WHILE the Irish women’s bobsleigh team continue to sweat over whether or not they will be able to compete in the Winter Olympics, it seems Irish fans are intent to on having a party regardless.

'EastEnders' actress Barbara Windsor today denied she was leaving the show because of a row with television bosses.

Barbara Windsor’s ‘EastEnders’ co-stars wanted her to quit the show before she collapsed.

MUCH-loved EastEnders star Barbara Windsor is to leave Albert Square after more than 15 years.

Speculation has already started as to how Barbara Windsor’s character Peggy Mitchell will make her grand exit – and bookies are predicting Peggy will retire gracefully rather than meet a gory end.

Barbara Windsor has quit ‘EastEnders’

STARS including Barbara Windsor, Ronnie Corbett and Roy Hudd gathered to say farewell to Danny La Rue.

FROM Barbara Windsor to Bruce Forsyth, television’s greats last night paid tribute to Corkman Danny La Rue, the man they called a “a true show business legend”.

'EastEnders' took the top honour at the British Soap Awards by being named best soap for the second year running.

MORE than 100 EastEnders stars past and present were reunited yesterday in a tearful farewell to “icon for ordinary folk” Wendy Richard.

Connections of Unnefer are likely to wait until Thursday before deciding between York and Windsor and for their colt’s next race.

Wales expect to find out today whether in-form wing Mark Jones will be fit for the final Six Nations Championship clash against France at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.

LEGENDARY Carry On film star Barbara Windsor — now known to millions as Eastenders’ battle-axe Peggy Mitchell — yesterday flew into Ireland to trace her family ancestry.

Six of the world’s most repressive regimes are on the UN panel that is supposed to uphold human rights, the US campaign group Freedom House said today.

Barbara Windsor will return to EastEnders this summer, it was announced today.

An expert witness told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Garda Paul Daly hit a protester with his baton on the junction of Parliament St and Dame St during the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May Day 2002.