A passenger using an electronic cigarette which gives off a vapour caused armed police to swoop on a coach in a terror alert which closed a motorway in Britain for more than four hours.

A passenger using an electronic cigarette which gives off a vapour caused armed police to swoop on a coach in a terror alert which closed a motorway for more than four hours.

ED McMahon harbours no great hopes of Impassive securing the Lichfield handler successive victories in today’s lucrative Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury.

A TEENAGE girl swore at a gay man after stamping on him and kicking him in the head as he lay unconscious on the ground, a court heard yesterday.

A FRIEND of a gay man allegedly attacked in Trafalgar Square told a court yesterday he “fell like a corpse” after being punched.

Senior bishops today claimed Christians in Britain are being “treated with disrespect” while followers of other faiths are dealt with more sensitively.

Dance group Flawless went through to the final of 'Britain's Got Talent' last night after a glowing reaction from the show's judges.

Colin Montgomerie’s closing 80 at the Irish Open – inevitably overshadowed by amateur Shane Lowry winning the title – had more damaging implications than merely a tumble down the leaderboard.

Former European and British bantamweight champion Noel Wilders has been chosen to oppose Dubliner Bernard Dunne at the National Stadium on Saturday, January 28.

The Leinster's women's senior team has been named to face Ulster this Saturday in Clontarf (kick-off 1pm).

IN 1990, the Public Records Office released the files of the young men (some of them boys of no more than 16 or 17 years of age) executed by the British Army for desertion and allied breaches of military discipline in the First World War.

A MOTHER whose daughter became entangled in the loop of a window blind and died days before her second birthday called for legislation to improve the safety of such products yesterday.

Three coaches taking British secondary school pupils to the annual Clotheshow Live exhibition were today involved in a major road pile-up.

A British man was today charged with paedophilia in Cambodia after allegedly being caught in a brothel with a naked 12-year-old girl.

Police in Cambodia have arrested a Briton for allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old local girl, officials said today.

The football fan who scooped £500,000 with a 30p accumulator bet was too nervous to watch a single kick of the game, it was reported today.

Table football enthusiasts are being offered a cheeky way of time-wasting or putting off an opponent during matches - throwing on a miniature streaker.