Scientist Richard Dawkins has become embroiled in another Twitter row, claiming it would be “immoral” to carry on with a pregnancy if the mother knew the foetus had Down’s Syndrome.

A small coastal community is mourning the death of a professor of creative writing and poetry who drowned after his dinghy capsized off the south-west coast.

EVEN the imaginations of those revered masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan, could not have devised a more topsy-turvy world than the august, 19th century, Courts of Justice in the Strand yesterday.

Thom Gunn, a prize-winning British-born poet who explored contemporary California counterculture in a variety of poetic forms, has died, his partner said today.