No one cares how Irish or how un-Irish you are; we can all still celebrate

A British soldier who died as he protected the lives of his comrades in Afghanistan is to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

The publisher of The Sun newspaper will appear in court next month for allegedly reporting material likely to prejudice the trial of a man who blew up his house killing a two year-old boy who lived next door.

I can't imagine a less comfortable way of sleeping than pressed up against another person's big, sweaty body with my left arm wedged under their shoulder

There are a number of well-practiced methods of dealing with the discovery a spouse has been cheating. You can sweep it under the rug, you can go to couples' therapy, you can get your own back. Or - as one Vancouver woman showed last week - you can post an ad for a "huge ass estate sale" and sell all the culprit's treasured possessions for a knockdown price. Chah-ching!

The sides meet in Paris on Saturday

He was rescued from the council car park - and is now heading for a plain-looking tomb in Leicester Cathedral

One of Britain's most eminent professors of nursing declared his love to an 83-year-old patient who he nicknamed “my little Tinkerbell”, a conduct hearing has been told.

A police officer who won a national award for bravery has been jailed after abusing his position to have sex with a vulnerable woman.

Erin Kelly has written three novels of psychological suspense. This latest is perhaps the most disturbing – and also the one that lays out most clearly the corrosive areas in which she moves. Her previous books, The Sick Rose and The Poison Tree, borrowed titles from William Blake, but The Burning Air takes on most tellingly Blake's line about a dark, destructive secret love.

News comes after Pistorius' close friend revealed the Olympian is 'on the verge of suicide'

New six-tier system introduced for next season

Spanish police have discovered 4,000 Celtic artefacts – almost certainly looted from a nearby archaeological burial site – heaped in empty chocolate and cigar boxes in a building in the eastern town of Illueca.