The family of a teenager missing for nearly 40 years has secured some closure over the tragedy after his body was found, it was said today.

A DEPRAVED sexual predator who was abusing a teenage babysitter killed himself and the rest of his family in a deliberate house fire because his partner threatened to leave him, a coroner ruled yesterday.

A convicted sex offender who killed himself and his family in a house fire was having sex with an underage girl in the month before the blaze, a court in the North heard today.

Irish Cricket Union Secretary John Wright has announced his intention not to seek re-election at the Union AGM in February 2008.

The British Prime Minister’s senior economic adviser has quit his post to take a job with accountancy group KPMG.