Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning a family holiday to the British countryside.

Exactly a week after Steve Redmond’s Oceans Seven world-record feat the country’s swimming fraternity is in mourning after another Corkman died while crossing the English Channel.

The FEI Nations Cup Series begins today in La Baule, France, and, important as it is, it will play second fiddle to the Olympics.

A MAN who hijacked an Aer Lingus flight on route from Dublin to London wrote to then taoiseach Garret FitzGerald from his prison cell in Paris complaining about his treatment while he lived and worked in Ireland.

Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac buried their differences over the war in Iraq at a lavish but informal dinner in Paris.

TONY BLAIR and Jacques Chirac yesterday attempted to paper over the cracks in Europe about war in Iraq by agreeing that the crisis must be resolved through the United Nations.

PHIL BABB will make his Sunderland debut in France tonight when Peter Reid's players take a break from their pre-season training programme.

SUNDERLAND striker Kevin Phillips has vowed to be fit for the start of the new Premiership season even if he has to kick his heels for a few more days.