AN Effin woman has been forced to start an online campaign to get Facebook to accept the name of her native place after the social networking giant branded her homeplace’s name as ‘offensive.’

For 212 assorted amateurs and professionals the dream of playing in The Open at Birkdale is still alive following yesterday’s 16 regional qualifying tournaments around Ireland and Britain.

Investigators will today remove the bodies of five people killed in a jet crash as they sift through wreckage to find out what caused the tragedy.

On the same course where he once hit a six-inch putt 45 yards back down the fairway, Mark Roe snapped a club into three pieces on Friday.

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Coventry, Ferndown and Lindrick have been named as new additions to the list of 16 clubs that will host regional qualifying for the 2008 Open championship at Royal Birkdale.