Police have re-opened investigations into two sectarian murders in Belfast during the 1980s and 1990s.

Traces of DNA linking a man to the murders of two British soldiers are at most 100 billion times smaller than a gram, a court has heard.

Police in the North are to take out newspaper advertisements on both sides of the border as part of a fresh appeal for information about the Omagh bombing.

Three people died after their car crashed into a lamppost, British police said today.

Gardai in Kildare are appealing for witnesses to an accident on the main Dublin to Cork road today.