THE widow and brother-in-law of an English lord whose decomposing body was found on the French Riviera went on trial yesterday accused of murdering him to get their hands on his fortune.

THE 11th Earl of Shaftesbury, the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper whose body was found in the south of France last month, has died of a suspected heart attack.

Local fishermen and farmers in the North have formed an association to campaign for Lough Neagh to be taken into public ownership.