Bookies’ favourite Hilary Mantel scooped the Man Booker Prize for Fiction tonight for her “demanding” novel about Henry VIII’s adviser Thomas Cromwell.

REPUBLIC of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni will deliver a firm and strong rebuttal today of “arrogance” claims made recently against him by Stephen Ireland after a meeting between the pair last year.

A Manchester City-mad couple who said they streaked across a pitch in a bid to boost their team's dismal performance, have been banned for life by the club.