An English Market butcher staked his claim to being local peacekeeper when he caught a man in a bear-hug as he tried to snatch a handbag hanging from a baby’s buggy.

THREE nurses have been barred from the profession for reasons including assaulting a nursing home patient, the unauthorised use of medicine and the failure to properly monitor a patient in their care following recent decisions of the nursing board, An Bord Altranais.