Britain: A “poo bus”, which runs on human and household waste, goes into regular service this month. Powered by biomethane gas, the Bio-Bus will use waste from more than 32,000 households along its 24km route.

My mother is on the phone, alerting me to the travel arrangements which she and my mother-in-law have made on my behalf; I fly to England next week to visit both women, who live four hours apart in the West Country.

Rugby referee Nigel Owens is more used to dealing with fly-halfs than flight schedules, but yesterday he found himself wading, not for the first time, into the hotly-contested public relations scrum between Ryanair and Aer Lingus.

Leinster made Cardiff Blues pay the price for their indiscipline as the Guinness PRO12 high-flyers fought back from a half-time deficit to claim a bonus-point 22-13 victory at the Arms Park.

Britain’s first “number two” bus has taken to the road — powered entirely by human and food waste.

Two winning tickets to split $636m US lottery

A sacked employee who caused £175,000 (€206,000) worth of damage when he went on a rampage at his former workplace has been jailed for 20 months.

Ruby Walsh began his afternoon in style by guiding Colin McBratney’s Toye Native to victory in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares’ Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Gardaí are closely monitoring the movements of a serial rapist from England who is on holidays in West Cork.

A father of five who accidentally shone a laser pen at a police helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing, was told by a judge in Britain he had avoided jail by a “whisker” today.

Six people have been arrested at an airport in Britain after paint was thrown inside the terminal building.

AN Aer Arann flight from Bristol to Cork was delayed for four hours on Thursday after the pilot was arrested on suspicion of being over the legal alcohol limit to fly.

THE eve of Cheltenham now and there is no doubt the most important thing this weekend is to walk out of Naas tomorrow night relatively unscathed.

I USED to be an inch over six feet,but that was before I startedplaying rugby for Charleville — now I’m an inch under.

STADIUM ALIGHT was the irresistible if somewhat excitable front page headline on the Sunderland Echo last Wednesday.

JOHN WHELAN (Irish Examiner, February 26) referred to the possibility of Cork Airport somehow finding the money to extend its runway to facilitate long-haul flights and to install a landing system that can deal with fog.

The runway at Bristol International Airport could reopen this morning after it was closed for emergency resurfacing work, an airport spokesman has confirmed.

Spanish construction company Grupo Ferrovial said today that it sold its 50% stake in the UK’s Bristol Airport to Australia’s Macquarie Bank for £106m (€157.1m), while postponing the planned sale of a stake in Sydney Airport.

A Spanish company tonight looked to have won a dramatic £10bn (€14.5bn) takeover battle for control of the UK’s biggest airports.

A fresh round of merger speculation drove the FTSE 100 Index towards the 6000 threshold today, helping it close in positive territory for the first time this week.

AUSTRALIA'S Macquarie Bank is poised to team up with Spain's Grupo Ferrovial SA to launch a hostile bid for British airports operator BAA plc.

The Civil Aviation Authority indicated today that it would take a dim view of any takeover bid for airports operator BAA using large amounts of debt.

Heavy falls by mining stocks plunged the London market into the red today, despite massive gains from airport operator BAA on the back of takeover interest.

A Spanish infrastructure company today said it was planning a possible takeover of BAA – the owner of seven UK airports, including Heathrow.

AUSTRALIAN group Macquarie Bank is understood to be preparing a bid for the London Stock Exchange.

Australian group Macquarie Bank is understood to be preparing a bid for the London Stock Exchange, it emerged today.

An English suspected football hooligan who tried to board a plane to Portugal will contest a police application for a football banning order, a British court was told today.

THE layers again took on another of Aidan O’Brien’s juveniles – the Storm Cat colt Dark Cheetah – in the Fermoy Maiden at Cork last night.

Belfast City Airport has been bought by Spanish engineering and construction company Ferrovial, it was confirmed today.