The parents of 65 chronically ill teenage girls who claim they are suffering serious side effects from the HPV cervical cancer vaccine have joined a support group to get help for their daughters.

AS YOU read, Space Shuttle Atlantis stands on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre, its black nose pointed towards the heavens, one last mission beckoning.

A rescue team had to ski across the Wicklow Mountains today to reach four men trapped in their 4x4s by heavy snow drifts during a freezing nine-hour ordeal.