A former mental health nurse who strangled and butchered a dog and fed it to a pet is psychopathic, a doctor has said.

Relatives wept as former Irish rugby star David Tweed was jailed for eight years for a catalogue of child sex abuse.

The captain of a ship which collided with a passenger ferry in the North, causing more than £1m (€1.25m) of damage, has today been jailed for a year.

The captain of a ship which collided with a passenger ferry causing thousands of pounds worth of damage had drunk up to seven bottles of beer, a court in the North heard today.

A second prisoner has been wrongly released from custody in the North within a week, it was announced today.