Britain’s oldest man, Henry Allingham, yesterday reached another milestone in his remarkable life by becoming the oldest ever British man.

EUROPE’s oldest man, World War I veteran Henry Allingham, marked his 112th birthday yesterday by enjoying a flypast of fighter aircraft from the Battle of Britain.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a Cork man against his conviction for murdering a man with an axe in 2002.

A Cork man was today found guilty of the murder of Mr Gerard Hackett, aged 49, at the Central Criminal Court.

A jury in the trial of a Cork man accused of murder at the Central Criminal Court were sent this evening to a hotel and will tommorow morning resume their deliberations.

Addressing the jury in the trial of a Cork man accused of murder, the prosecuting counsel today said the accused "tinged his defence to avoid the consequences of his actions".

The State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, today told a jury at the fourth day of a murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder that the victim "died from head injuries as a result from a sustained and severe assault".

A jury at the fourth day of a murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder today saw the alleged murder weapons, including a bloodied concrete block, a four-foot metal pipe, an iron bar, a six-foot metal gutter and a spear-like metal bar.

A jury at a three-day murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder, today saw the accused's video taped admission to the hacking to death of the victim with an axe.

A Corkman accused of murder allegedly admitted to gardaí to killing a man with an axe after the victim attempted to have sex with him, a jury heard today at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man accused of murder allegedly struck his victim with an axe seven times in the head a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court today.