Emma O’Reilly’s book, The Race To Truth – Blowing The Whistle On Lance Armstrong And Cycling’s Doping Culture, has been short-listed for Sports Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards.

Denise Welch's fiancé has had a suspected heart attack.

Illustrations of symptoms may help patients better describe what they feel, says Rachel Borrill.

A prisoner cut off part of his ear so he could escape from an ambulance on the way to hospital, Greater Manchester Police said today.

A Canadian woman is being treated for suspected swine flu in the UK.

Alex Ferguson has hailed £30.75m man Dimitar Berbatov as a “key signing” in Manchester United’s quest for a Premier League title hat-trick.

ABOUT 250 properties associated with two Manchester-based businessmen were yesterday being investigated by Assets Recovery Agency officials in the North as part of a probe into IRA links.

Manchester United have condemned last night’s attack on director Maurice Watkins.

Vandals have daubed red paint over the Jaguar of Manchester United director Maurice Watkins.

Seven people, including a teenage boy, died today when the roof was ripped off their minibus in a “particularly harrowing” motorway crash.

A mile-high stunt in which a James Bond lookalike was hoping to descend to the ground by shooting down the 300 balloons that suspended him was postponed today due to bad weather.

One of Britain’s busiest airports is suffering a further series of one-hour stoppages by staff locked in a bitter dispute over restructuring plans.

An elderly patient who was ‘‘fanatical’’ about home security was found dead at her home with both doors to her bungalow unlocked and just an hour after Dr Harold Shipman’s car was seen parked outside, the inquiry into the family doctor’s crimes heard today.