Colm O’Regan – stand-up comedian, storyteller and the man behind a very famous Twitter account

25 years ago, Britpop giants Blur and Oasis battled it out on the Official Chart to claim the top spot and be declared the biggest band in Britain. 

Taylor Swift has reclaimed her throne to become Number 1 once more on the Official Irish Albums Chart.

the Alone Together podcast looks at the importance of face masks as both personal protective equipment (PPE) and a form of infection control.

Kylie Jenner and Kris Jenner came to blows during a heated argument which saw the makeup mogul bark "let me f**king live" at her mother. The teaser for Keeping Up With the Kardashians Season 18 saw the 23-year-old neck shots with Corey Gamble – a move that didn't sit well with the Kardashian matriarch.

Dive right in! Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherThousands of bats have been filmed flying out of a tiny crack between the wall of a residential building in a chilling video.Residents living in a building block in the city of Baotou of Inner Mongolia, China, said the bats had caused a nuisance to their daily lives after some flew into their homes.They told local media NMTV that the bats fly out of their nest at around 8pm at night and returned at 5am the next day."This is their daily routine, and it's always 8pm and 5am, every day," said Mr Yan, who lives at the building opposite the bat's home.Video shows a large swarm of bats flying out of the crack, measuring 15cm (5.9in) wide, at the top of the residential

family, Britni admits she wants to add to her brood. And the mum, who is married to her husband Chris, would want as many as 15 children in total.To care for her massive brood, Britni and her second husband Chris, 28, spend around £230 per week on their food shopping.That includes five boxes of cereal, 66 cartons of milk and around 600 diapers.She said: "I hope we'll try to have another girl still."I don't think I would ever have more than 15 kids but then again I never thought I'd have 11 kids."I thought I would have many four kids maximum.

cancer to stop his girlfriend dumping him over his sexual desires has been jailed.

Jodie Turner-Smith is opening up about becoming a mother in 2020. On the heels of her breakout role in Queen & Slim and surprise marriage to Joshua Jackson, Turner found herself expecting amidst a pandemic and social unrest following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other innocent Black people.

Adriana Lima, waited until marriage to give up their V cards, others — including Joe Jonas — ditched the purity rings after their teenage years while some (Kim Kardashian and George Clooney, for example) were still in high school.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA further 65 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus in Scotland.The Scottish Government published information this afternoon as part of its daily update on how the virus is impacting on the nation.Eighteen new cases have been detected in the NHS Grampian region where the authorities locked down the city of Aberdeen following a significant upsurge in positive tests.Meanwhile, another 12 cases have been recorded in the NHS Lanarkshire region in the last 24 hours.Scotland's COVID-19 death toll remains at 2,491.However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 4,213 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, August 9 where the

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.The long-awaited sound of school bells rang out across Stirling this week as pupils returned for the first time since March.Wednesday marked the big day for parents, teachers and children as schools threw open their doors after the previous term was cut short as Scotland locked down in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.The Observer was given a tour of one local school - East Plean Primary - as it welcomed children back, while grappling with the new restrictions aimed at keeping pupils and staff safe.Among the changes are staggered break times, special ‘zones’ for different classes in the playground, reconfigured classrooms to allow distancing

coronavirus was linked back to the business. Ca Va Brasserie, in East Renfrewshire, told customers they are currently closed and are undergoing a deep clean following a “Covid-19 incident”.

A mum-of-five fears a sofa she bought a few days ago could be infested with spider eggs after a "demonic" arachnid terrified her family as they watched a Harry Potter movie.

GARRETT CLAYTON’S A GAY IN THE LIFE Former Disney Channel star and out Hollywood actor Garrett Clayton (King Cobra) recently launched a weekly LGBTQ series on YouTube with the long-term goal of humanizing the stories and struggles of contemporary LGBTQ rights and peoples around the world. Co-created and co-hosted by Clayton’s fiancé Blake Knight, the series also intends to reveal how LGBTQ identities, attitudes, and experiences vary greatly from one country and culture to the next.

bdrmm launch into their debut album ‘Bedroom’ at Hull venue, The Dive. Firstly, there’s the sound itself that knocks you for six; pulsing synths, emotive guitar lines and agony-steeped vocals, you’re instantly left longing to be in the same muggy room as the shoegazers.Then there’s the reminder of the devastation felt by local venues across the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

straight to your inbox Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke hit back at suggestions from Paul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves that the German club is bluffing about Jadon Sancho's future. Manchester United were dealt a bombshell earlier in the week when Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc not only claimed Sancho will play for the club next season, but also revealed the 20-year-old has a contract in Westphalia that runs until 2023 - not 2022, as was previously thought.

Katie Maloney thinks pregnant Stassi Schroeder is going to be a “great mom.”“She has such a maternal sort of aspect of her,” the Vanderpump Rules star, 33, exclusively told Us Weekly of her former costar, 32, on Wednesday, August 12, while promoting her “You’re Gonna Love Me” podcast on Dear Media’s network. “She’s really caring and likes to care for people and wants to just have a little mini her.

Jennie McAlpine and Beverley Callard, as well as Loose Women Coleen and Saira.And she launched an attack on Nadia, 55, after she urged women to love themselves and their bodies on the daytime panel show.Melanie shared a video of Nadia explaining her new found body confidence, in which she said: ‘I am desperate to get into the brains of young women and say: “Please stop it earlier than we did”.‘It’s absolute stinking thinking, nobody in my entire life has ever said anything as nasty to me as I have said to myself.‘How many of you would say the same? That nobody is as mean to you as you are to yourself? It really doesn’t have to be like that.’The agent tweeted: ‘It’s a shame she “officially” gave up acting because Nadia deserve an Oscar for

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are currently resolving their custody battle in the US. While the former flames work towards a conclusion, a new report claims that their children - Maddox, 19, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14 and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox - haven't met their paternal grandmother for four years now.

Coleen Nolan's manager has risked starting a war between the Loose Women panellists after hitting out at Nadia Sawalha. Melanie Blake, 42, took to Twitter on Thursday to slam 55 year old Nadia, who she used to represent.The manager of Urban Associates – who represent Coleen, 55, and her co-star Saira Khan, 50 – branded Nadia "a total witch" in an epic takedown of the former EastEnders star.

Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart.The intro, in which the “Silent Sunday Nights” host provides social context to the 1974 Cleavon Little-Gene Wilder comedy, is similar to the disclaimer in front of “Gone with the Wind.”“This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns,” Stewart says in the newly added intro. “It’s as provocative today as it was when it premiered back in 1974.”The TCM notice not only provides context to some of Brooks’ characters but also informs audiences about the director’s spoofing ways.