Des O’Sullivan reports on the wealth of 1916 memorabilia coming up for auction prior to the centenary.

Straight into a new year and it’s just as we left off in 2014 with Irish horticulture getting stronger and stronger.

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British police have launched a murder investigation following the deaths of a mother and her son at Dartmoor and the discovery of a second child's body at the family's home.

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Ann Widdecombe has vowed to continue dancing to an audience of cattle when she is alone in the Dartmoor countryside.

A DESIGN showing how gardening helps people with disabilities and another linking music and the countryside were among the winners of top awards at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show in London.

A canoeist pulled from a river during stormy conditions in the UK died, the fire service said.

A MOTHER has described her terror as hundreds of drunken gate-crashers swarmed into her daughter’s 18th birthday party after the event was broadcast on Radio One.

Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest has died, New Zealand’s prime minister Helen Clark said tonight.

An £85,000 grand piano was delivered to a countryside music festival yesterday.

THOUSANDS of British youngsters taking part in a hiking challenge were airlifted off Dartmoor yesterday.

ORGANISERS of a classical music festival said yesterday they are distraught after a £45,000 grand piano was dropped off the delivery lorry.

Bookmakers have made rock band Kaiser Chiefs favourites to win the 2005 Mercury Music Prize after the shortlist for this year's award were announced today.

A British woman killed in Thailand was mown down by a car and dragged for 20 yards after trying to stop a gunman – believed to be a policeman – who shot her boyfriend dead, it was revealed today.

POLICE yesterday found the body of missing teenager Alicia Eborne in woodland at an isolated spot on the edge of Dartmoor.

British Polar hero Pen Hadow remains stranded at the North Pole today, waiting to be picked up after setting a solo Arctic trekking record.

British Polar hero Pen Hadow remains at the top of the world today waiting to be picked up after setting a solo Arctic trekking record.

The British Army has been recalled to help deal with a resurgence of foot-and-mouth disease in Devon and Somerset.

An eleventh case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed at a farm in Herefordshire.