A woman who was so anxious about giving birth she hired a private midwife bled to death after her placenta was “ripped out”, an inquest heard.

A newborn girl has been found abandoned in a holdall on a doorstep, police in Britain said.

FOR St Anthony’s women’s Gaelic football team, getting 15 players on the pitch is not a problem — it’s cutting people from the panel.

AN explosion in a furnace at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France yesterday killed one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the site, officials said.

Kieren Fallon is set to ride at Newbury this afternoon after escaping serious injury at the Berkshire track on Friday.

KIEREN Fallon has been given a clean bill of health following a nasty incident in the paddock at Newbury yesterday.

READING have accused Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho of “very serious factual inaccuracies” in his complaints about the length of time goalkeeper Petr Cech had to wait for an ambulance at the Madejski Stadium on Saturday.

Chelsea will write to the Football Association to detail their concerns about the delay in moving Petr Cech from Reading’s Madejski Stadium to hospital.

A 21-year-old man accused of murdering teenager Mary-Ann Leneghan was under police guard in hospital tonight after being injured in his cell.

A MAN whose malignant tumour went unnoticed by doctors for nine years discovered it had grown to a weight of 55lb when an operation was finally carried out to remove it.

Investigators are focusing today on evidence suggesting a suicide driver caused the Berkshire train crash that killed seven people.

Passengers who escaped unhurt from last night's rail crash in Berkshire, England spoke of their terror as they realised the train was crashing.

A teenage boy was fighting for his life in hospital today after a three-pronged harpoon was shot into his eye during a late night row.

British police were today investigating what caused a fire in a parked car which killed two children.

A fight at a wedding reception which developed into a mass brawl involving 100 guests left six people injured with stab wounds.