Veteran music star Leonard Cohen is to play a one-off outdoor show in the UK this summer – with a mammoth set lasting more than three hours.

Dizzee Rascal has escaped charges after he was arrested for becoming embroiled in a road rage incident involving a baseball bat.

FIVE boys aged 12 to 14 were locked up for two years each yesterday for killing a pensioner as he played cricket with his teenage son.

HE WAS a boyband heart throb, a reckless rally driver and a reluctant reality TV star but — sorry girls — he is officially off the market.

Jamelia has split from her soccer star boyfriend Darren Byfield after three years together.

Former Boyzone star Shane Lynch has married his long term partner Sheena White at a low key ceremony.

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.

A WILL leaving a €27m farm in Kent, England to the farmer’s illegitimate daughter has been declared a forgery.

Singer Joss Stone is reportedly devastated after brother Daniel Skillin was hospitalised following a heroin overdose.

Forensic scientists today joined a new police search for the body of a missing schoolgirl in the North.

British church leaders are urging families to see new Disney movie The chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, because it promotes Christian values.

The husband of critically ill ex-Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam today remained at her bedside after it was revealed her condition had deteriorated.

British model Kelly Brook has slammed reports she has called off her wedding to actor Billy Zane, after she was photographed without her engagement ring.

Matt Adams