An Irish bank has failed in an international search to track down Ian Botham’s daughter-in-law — Lisa Harrison-Botham — so it can serve her with court proceedings to repossess a house she shared with her former boyfriend, Mark Kershaw.

The Central Bank has followed through in its investigation of the banking industry into potential abuses involving tracker mortgages by launching an “enforcement investigation” into Ulster Bank.

Ulster Bank has announced the appointment of Stephen Bell to the position of Chief Risk Officer.

EIGHT orders for repossession were granted in the High Court yesterday, including one against a solicitor who claimed the signature on the mortgage loan agreement was not hers.

Nationwide bookselling chain Hughes & Hughes has gone into receivership today.