MAYBIN Support Services, one of Ireland’s leading support services and facilities management providers, has acquired Corporate Cleaning Services, the Limerick based company which specialises in micron and clean-room environments.

A planned £25m (€37m) takeover of a security firm in the North at the centre of a hospitality corruption investigation has been scrapped, it was revealed tonight.

The Prison Service starts taking over responsibility for prisoners inside Northern Ireland’s magistrates courts from police tomorrow.