The Central Bank says it has contacted Ulster Bank after bank payments in the North and lenders owned by parent group Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in Britain were hit early yesterday by a new computer glitch.

A US recycling centre is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be worth $200,000.

A computer crash continued to bug the biggest hospital in the West yesterday.

British manufacturing output unexpectedly fell in January as computer and electronics production plunged.