Pre-tax profits at Michael Cotter’s Park Developments group last year increased six-fold to €5.34m, as revenues jumped by 43%.

A doubling of developer Michael Cotter’s Park Developments’ Irish revenue last year led to pre-tax losses narrowing sharply to €844,300.

Rescuers with shovels and sniffer dogs are combing through collapsed hillsides as the death toll from a strong earthquake in north-west China rose to 89.

TAINTED milk formula has killed one baby and caused the development of kidney stones in dozens of others who may have drunk the same product, Chinese authorities said yesterday, in a grim reminder of a milk-powder scandal that killed 13 infants four years ago.

LEEDS star Harry Kewell’s future will be resolved by the end of the month.