A film version of Dracula is to be made in Belfast.

THE News Letter’s Laura Murphy gets to grip with the dance work-out sweeping across the nation - Zumba.

Celebrities flocked to the world’s most famous flower show today for a sneak preview ahead of the Queen’s official visit later today.

Rod Stewart’s first album of self-penned songs in 20 years has gone straight to the top of the UK album charts.

From checking the weather forecast ahead a group trip to emailing a friend some of the latest pictures of their grandchildren, the silver surfers of one Co Armagh community club are well and truly online after a free iPad training course.

The rain didn’t dampen spirits at the Lord Mayor’s party at City Hall on Saturday.

Coronation Street dominated the British Soap Awards scooping eight out of 16 awards including Best Soap.

Strabane singer Ryan Dolan has said he was disappointed to come last in the Eurovision song contest on Saturday night.

The contest season got under way at Lisburn last weekend and it continues today with the County Fermanagh Championships in Enniskillen, starting at midday.

From giant inflatable pigs to those on a spit, there was plenty to see at this year’s Balmoral show.

Damon Smith gives his verdict on The Great Gatsby 3D

Cinema critic Damon Smith gives his verdict on The Great Gatsby 3D

ANGELINA JOLIE’S dad JON VOIGHT has told how he only found out that his daughter had undergone a double mastectomy when he read the news.

Snow Patrol will return to Tennent’s Vital this summer to play a homecoming show at Belfast’s Boucher Road Playing Fields on Thursday August 15. In a major coup for organisers, the band’s headline slot on day two of the festival will be their only European date this summer. Kodaline and Foy Vance have also been added to the bill.

She’s the raspy-voiced Welsh singer behind the multi-platinum-selling Eighties power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart who has fans in France, Belgium and Germany. Surely that should give Bonnie Tyler a fighting chance of winning this year’s Eurovision Song Contest which is being staged in Malmo, Sweden.

THERE’S something regrettably unlikely and earth-bound about a Liverpudlian former footballer turned psychic medium. Derek Acorah looks like an average bloke: what business has he conversing, then, with those who have shuffled off this mortal coil?

After a trip to Belfast a few years ago, movie star Vince Vaughn was captivated by the city’s murals. He tells LAURA MURPHY about the documentary he made with his sister Valeri about the function and significance of these artworks

Officials from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs were among a packed audience in the heart of east Belfast on Wednesday night to watch a new play about Ulster men who fought in the First World War.

WHEN ANGELINA Jolie revealed this week that she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy operation, the world was shocked. Few could have guessed that the gorgeous 37-year-old Oscar winning actress, mother of six and partner of Brad Pitt, had spent the past few months undergoing procedures to powerfully reduce her chances of breast cancer.

Schoolchildren as young as 15 could be shown a hard-hitting anti-human trafficking play in a bid to beat the criminals behind the trade, it has been revealed.