A Santa Claus was told to stop entertaining children in a town centre over fears they would be “traumatised” by the sight of two Father Christmases in the same high street in the UK.

A Cork developer has been ordered to pay €1.57m damages over fraudulent misrepresentation, deceit and misappropriating large sums out of $50m (€37.7m) paid to his companies for a luxury hotel and resort in the Caribbean which was left unfinished.

The company formerly known as BAA is being forced to sell Stansted airport in Essex, England.

Firearms officers and police helicopters have joined the hunt for a lion that is thought to be roaming loose in Essex, England.

Mothers watching the Olympics say they are relieved they have been able to take their babies after organisers backtracked on plans to make them have their own tickets.

Robbie Williams surprised a fan with a solo performance over an internet video chat site.

ALMOST 14 years after the violent death of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier outside her holiday home near Schull in West Cork, the French authorities are “extending the long reach of their arm” to try to put the man suspected of her murder on trial, the High Court has heard.

A CORK developer who transferred money from a construction project in the Caribbean to bank accounts in Carrigaline and Bishopstown has told the High Court they were legitimate transfers for personal and business purposes.

Katie Price feels increasingly vulnerable when making public appearances and has stopped being as accessible to her admirers.

Jack Tweed has branded his mother-in-law, Jackiey Budden, a money grabber.

A young man who was diagnosed with breast cancer aged just 24 is campaigning for the name of the illness to be changed.

An "overwhelmed" Diversity remained stunned today at their shock victory in the Britain's Got Talent final.

Paul McCloskey is the new British light-welterweight champion after beating Colin Lynes in Essex, England last night.

A third person has been arrested in connection with allegations of theft from the British home of Victoria and David Beckham.

Ryanair announced substantial cutbacks today in its number of flights from Stansted Airport next winter.

The prosecution in the €440m cocaine trial was attacked as speculative, remote, fixated and incorrect as lawyers for two of the defendants made their closing submissions to the jury today.

The lawyer defending one of the men in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs case said today it was absurd to think that a brick-layer and family man from England could be involved in a drug crime on the scale that one would associate with the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.

One of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the State had no inkling that drugs were being imported until he saw white packets floating in the sea on the morning in question.

Jude Law has sparked rumours he is dating veteran rocker Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly, after pictures of the pair enjoying a steamy clinch were published by a British tabloid newspaper.

Former Spice Girl star Geri Halliwell kept her fans waiting at a book signing on Monday - because she was trapped in an elevator.

THE fourth English man charged in connection with the largest cocaine seizure in the history of the State was yesterday sent forward for trial.

Troubled soul star Amy Winehouse has reportedly quit rehab for the second time.

Four men on charges related to the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of the State have been remanded in custody until August 28 for direction from the Director of Public Prosecutions as to what charges will be preferred against them.

Rod Stewart is planning to wed fiancee Panny Lancaster early next year, after his divorce from second wife Rachel Hunter was finalised last month.

YOU may like ‘em white, but more and more people are opting for a bronze turkey for Christmas — the bird hunted by the Pilgrims in America for their first Thanksgiving dinner and the ancestor of our modern turkey.

THE formal ratification of Robert Splaine as chef d’equipe to the senior show jumping team may not take place until January, as the Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI) has not scheduled an executive meeting until the New Year.

Actor George Clooney's reported engagement to Lisa Snowdon has been rubbished by the British TV presenter - because she refuses to live in America.

A YOUNG German woman was killed