Continental Farmers Group , quarter-owned by Irish agri-food business Origin, has reported profits of €3.1m to the end of last year, a 19% increase on 2010.

DETECTIVES have told a cousin of the young Brazilian shot dead by police marksmen at Stockwell Tube station in 2005 his number was found on the phone-hacking list of a News of the World private investigator.

THE leaders of the three main British political parties have agreed to terms for a series of televised debates during the next general election campaign, it was announced last night.

Former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes died in hospital today after reportedly suffering a stroke last weekend.

TV presenter Alastair Stewart, who fronts the ITV show Police, Camera, Action, pleaded guilty at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court today to drink-driving after his Mercedes car collided with a hedge.