Beside an abandoned Russian military camp in eastern Ukraine, the body of a man is sprawled in the grass – a civilian who had fallen victim to a tripwire land mine set by retreating Russian forces.

Ukraine’s interior minister has said it will take years to defuse the unexploded ordnance once the Russian invasion is over.

Boris Johnson has been criticised by Nicola Sturgeon and Keir Starmer after he said Margaret Thatcher gave the UK a “big early start” in the fight against climate change when she closed coal mines across the UK.

An intellectually disabled woman who allegedly had to leave her home in Co. Monaghan as a result of the collapse of an adjacent mine has secured €200,000 under a settlement of her High Court action.