Mountaineering expedition organisers in Nepal are sending huge bags with climbers on Mount Everest during the spring climbing season to collect rubbish that then can be winched by helicopters back to the base camp.

Eleven people were hurt, five seriously, when a van drove into a Christmas market in France.

Two drivers working for the owners of Cornish pasty makers Ginsters were killed and a third was injured in the horrific M5 crash in the UK, the company said today.

Police broke through barricades around French fuel depots today as the government took a tough line with strikers threatening to bring the country to a halt.

A Mount Everest expedition leader criticised for leading his team past a dying British climber said today that he did not know during his team’s ascent that anyone was in trouble near the peak.