Merlin Entertainments shares weakened and G4S rose as investors weigh a possible softening in London tourism and a likely increase in demand for private security after the Westminster terror attack.

The jury in the trial of an alleged kidnapping and robbery has heard a distressed 999 call from the victim, whose 10-week-old baby had not been fed for 17 hours.

Scotland Yard is investigating claims security workers in England were paid by convicts to deliberately fit electronic ankle tags loosely.

The Irish arm of security giant G4S cut its losses in 2015 after a restructuring.

A disturbance by prisoners at HMP Birmingham in England has spread to two further wings taking the total to four, sources said.

There’s a sort of musical chairs series of moves afoot at several of Munster’s TV, audio and white goods retailers this month. As one Cork city centre retailer prepares to move to an edge-of town spot for a larger footprint in coming weeks, the first out of the traps to officially confirm a relocation is the well-known and long-established Soundstore.

The main Irish arm of security firm G4S last year returned to operating profit, as revenues jumped by 10% to €37m.

US authorities are investigating whether anyone helped the gunman who massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but said they did not believe anyone connected to the shooting posed a current danger to the public.

Doctors fear the death toll from the deadliest mass shooting in US history will rise, as the identities of the 50 people who were gunned down began to emerge.

Gunman Omar Mateen, who killed at least 50 people in a gay nightclub in Florida, was mentally unstable and had a history of using steroids, his ex-wife said.

In reply to Daniel Teegan’s “We must call upon our government to end arms trade with Israel “ (Irish Examiner, Letters April 4), calling G4S’s decision to sell off its Israel business a victory for the Israel haters in BDS is more than a little disingenuous.

An electrical appliance manufacturer has been awarded just under €80,000 by the High Court after a security company employee allowed €33,000 of stock to be stolen from its warehouse.

The Home Office has ordered an urgent review of asylum seeker homes in England’s North East amid claims their red front doors marked them out to vandals and race hate yobs.

One company is coining it from the collection of coins from pay-and-display parking meters around the streets of Dublin.

There was an unexpected arrival at one maternity hospital when mothers- to-be and mothers with newborn babies woke to find they were sharing a ward with a man who had wandered into the unit and fallen asleep in a spare bed.

Prisoners in the UK are being employed to gather insurance details from members of the public at call centres set up inside prisons, it has been reported.

Outsourcing back-to-work initiatives, cutting capital gains tax for entrepreneurs and reducing the level of council rates in town centres are just some of the initiatives contained in the Chambers Ireland pre-budget submission.

A major public march and rally is to be held in Belfast the weekend before the G8 meeting of world leaders.

Security group G4S dashed hopes for a speedy recovery from its Olympics woes today by warning that this year will be just as challenging.

Banks in Cyprus will open today for the first time in more than a week – with tough restrictions to prevent people from draining their accounts.

UK security company G4S says it will lose £70m (€82m) on its bungled Olympics contract.

Gardaí believe the fire which gutted a listed former convent building in Cork City was started deliberately.

Uncertainty over whether US political rivals will agree a crucial spending and taxation deal drove a volatile run on the London market today.

Marks & Spencer was one of the biggest risers on London’s leading shares index today as improved recent trading offered hope of a turnaround.

The cost of the London 2012 Games has come in at £377m (€463m) under budget, according to government figures released today.

In the UK, senior executives from private security firm G4S will be grilled by MPs later over its failure to honour its contract for London 2012.

Britain's Prince Harry’s first public appearance since naked photos of him made headlines around the world will be at the Paralympics, it was announced tonight.

The firm behind the Olympics security fiasco admitted today that its loss on the bungled contract will be in the region of £50m (€65m).

The parliamentary grilling received by the chief executive of G4S after its Olympics security shambles was in danger of discouraging businesses to come to the UK, it was claimed today.

Gardaí have arrested three people in connection with a cash in transit robbery in Dublin this afternoon.

Gardaí are investigating a robbery at a cash-in-transit van in Dublin.

A convicted killer has been sentenced to an extra five years in jail for co-ordinating a botched cash van raid during which gardaí shot dead his co-accused.

Ah, that delicious Saturday morning experience.

London is ready.

THERE are a few billboards about the place, but you certainly wouldn’t get the impression that London is completely in thrall to the Olympics.

IOC president Jacques Rogge has defended the Olympic movement's protection of their sponsors but insisted London 2012 spectators will not be prevented from wearing T-shirts bearing branding of rivals.

The head of the British Olympic Association has called for any spare tickets for the events at the London Games to go to some of the British troops drafted in at short notice to cover the shortfall in security staff.

A military commander has vowed to ensure that troops on standby to provide Olympic security have “the best possible accommodation” as Britain's Defence Secretary Philip Hammond visited their temporary camp in east London.

Theresa May was accused of giving MPs a “selective account” about when she knew G4S were having problems supplying enough guards to secure the Olympics.

Britain has been forced to make more last-minute changes to the London Olympics, putting 2,000 extra troops on standby and shortening the opening ceremony to avoid transport problems.

Bargain hunters helped shares in under-fire Olympic security firm G4S steady today as the wider market lifted thanks to gains on Wall Street.