Mark Cavendish became the first Briton to win a stage of the Tour de France for five years with a brilliant sprint shoot-out on the fifth stage from Cholet to Chateauroux.

SAMUEL DUMOULIN battled the conditions as well as his fellow riders to claim victory in the third stage of the Tour de France.

Samuel Dumoulin battled the conditions as well as his fellow riders to claim victory in the third stage of the Tour de France.

THE eldest daughter of former RTÉ head Liam Miller, who was tragically killed with her only sister in a road traffic accident in France on Tuesday, was due to announce her engagement this Christmas.

Two Irish sisters killed in a road accident in west France were planning a shopping trip when they died, it emerged today.