A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of punching and kicking an 81-year-old man in the head as he took the train to visit his grandchildren.

A millionaire’s daughter was warned she could be jailed after being convicted today of driving looters on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer’s riots in Britain.

UK detectives hunting the "nightstalker" - one of Britain's most wanted serial rapists - today arrested a 52-year-old man.

ROYAL DEVOTION, trained by Michael Halford for Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud, sprang the biggest shock on a day of surprises at Galway yesterday when landing the listed Ardilaun House Hotel Oyster Stakes.

ON an afternoon when Ruby Walsh rode in excess of a 15-1 treble, the main talking point at Cork yesterday was the Mallow Handicap Chase.

A METICULOUS plan by Dermot Weld to preserve Ansar’s handicap mark paid a huge dividend at Ballybrit yesterday when the course specialist (he’s won six times from eight races on the track) stormed to a tremendous success in the Galway Plate.

A Big Brother fan has discovered that one of the contestants is the father she has not seen for 11 years, it was reported today.

Irish boy Matt Holland lines out for Ipswich.