In the olden days, rugby players were not constrained by the rigours of professionalism and got up to all kinds of mischief.

Saying any player saw the Lions as make or break for their career is a difficult concept. Most, if not all, players are ...

Two Lions players have won Victoria Crosses. Friends Robert Johnston and Tom Crean, who toured South Africa in 1896, won VCs ...

Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair delivered the Dimbleby Lecture 2005. Here is a transcript: Good evening. What kind of police service do we want? Let me begin with a story. "A riot is ...

Hostilities have broken out between parties at Ards and North Down Borough Council over a proposed anniversary celebration for Ards Blair Mayne Wellbeing and Leisure Complex in Newtownards in ...

Hostilities have broken out between parties at Ards and North Down Borough Council over a proposed anniversary celebration for Ards Blair Mayne Wellbeing and Leisure Complex.

Formal biographical profiles of Blair Mayne hail his extraordinary courage, his multiple military decorations, his key role in co-founding and at one point, leading, the wartime SAS.

Evidence of whether one of the founding members of the SAS should be awarded a Victoria Cross (VC) posthumously will be reviewed, a defence minister has said.

Al Carns said the military service of Lieutenant Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne will be looked at to ‘provide an answer once and for all’.