The hole in the ozone layer is closing up. It is gratifying to know our sacrifices in the use of hairspray and underarm deodorant are finally paying off after all these years Sir Terry Wogan waxes lyrical on environmental issues

It is clear there is a growing trend whereby bank staff are viewed as a 'soft target' by criminal gangs Irish Bank Officials Association secretary Larry Broderick on the kidnapping of the family of a National Irish Bank worker

He seems preoccupied at the moment with Prada's winter shoe collection A Vatican source on the pope's predilection for fashion

I made a career out of annoying people. It is how to achieve things Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female crew to sail around the world