The criminal justice system must provide three things to keep us safe: Good policing, realistic judicial sentencing, and a robust prison service.

A small British oil producer has said it has discovered a possible world-class oil resource in the countryside to the south of London that could contain billions of barrels of oil.

Work has started on the recovery of wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was downed over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives.

The parents of a five-year-old girl who died from a brain tumour days after singing for Simon Cowell had strived to give her “the best year of her life”, her godmother said today.

A high-level group of TDs are to travel to Britain’s Sellafield nuclear plant to question bosses at the facility over recent radioactive fuel leaks, it has emerged.

EARLY today a team of Irish climbers were beginning their ascent of Scotland’s Ben Nevis.