An 11-year-old boy pulled a child who later died from a water park pool in England after discovering him while "searching for his goggles", it has been claimed.

Rory McIlroy hailed the best bogey of his career after surviving a dramatic lapse in concentration to win the DP World Tour Championship and claim a third Race to Dubai title in the last four years.

Rory McIlroy remained in pole position to be crowned European number one for the third time in four years as former supermarket shelf-stacker Andy Sullivan claimed the halfway lead in the DP World Tour Championship.

Rory McIlroy remains in pole position to be crowned European number one for the third time in four years

England's Andy Sullivan won his first European Tour title today after home favourite Charl Schwartzel suffered a dramatic collapse in the South African Open.

England’s Andy Sullivan has one local major champion hot on his heels at the halfway stage of the South African Open, but surprisingly another dropped well off the pace in Johannesburg.

Tournament host Ernie Els set about making amends for a winless 2014 at the earliest possible opportunity with an excellent start to his bid for a sixth South African Open title yesterday.

A British mass killer who shot five people dead in 1978 has died while serving an indefinite sentence for firearms and explosives offences.

Lee Westwood has a fight on his hands to claim a 13th win in Asia and 41st of his career after seeing a commanding lead almost wiped out by Andy Sullivan in the Maybank Malaysian Open.

Virgin Media today said it plans to triple the number of its UK retail stores in a year.

A further 36 branches of struggling UK childrenswear chain Adams were closed today with the loss of 267 jobs, administrators said, among them three Irish outlets and two in the North.

Around 60 jobs could be saved after administrators said some Adams Childrenswear stores would stay open in the North, it was revealed today.

British prime minister Gordon Brown was today facing pressure from his own MPs for a radical change in direction after a nightmare at the polls saw Labour slump to its worst results for a generation.

It was not the performance the England rugby team or Lewis Hamilton wanted, but for English golfer Steve Webster it was the best weekend of his career.

England’s Steve Webster won the Portugal Masters with a superb closing round of 64 at the Victoria Club in Vilamoura today.

Pub and brewery group Marston’s said today its investment plans should help it overcome the impact of the UK-wide smoking ban later in the year.

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Ugo Ehiogu’s transfer to West Brom from Middlesbrough has collapsed following an injury to Gareth Southgate.

Middlesbrough captain Gareth Southgate will be out of action for up to three months after sustaining a suspected stress fracture of an ankle.

A heavily pregnant football supporter is being escorted to a match by a midwife in case she goes into labour.

Police in Britain have made a second arrest in connection with the murder of a GAA official by loyalist paramilitaries in Co Derry eight years ago.

A man was arrested today in England for questioning about a murder in the North eight years ago.