Members of the garda forensic team have carried out an examination at the scene of a fatal house fire in county Donegal yesterday, which claimed the lives of two sisters in their 20s.

THE armoured personnel carrier may have gone but security is noticeably tighter around certain Olympic sites. Yesterday access areas to the Olympic Village, Media Centre and the Bird’s Nest Stadium were patrolled by troops in full combat fatigues with automatic weapons cradled in their arms.