A woman in Britain who accepted a pair of looted shorts from her housemate has walked free from prison after her sentence was reduced on appeal.

A mother who left her three-year-old daughter to die from malnutrition in her bedroom and did not find her body until two days after her death was jailed for 12 years today.

Three men accused of IRA-linked arms offences will go on trial at the Old Bailey in April, it was decided today.