Search teams today found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared over the weekend carrying 11 people including one Irish man, a spokesman for Cameroon’s government said.

Greeting cards firm Clinton Cards said it was well-set to weather high street gloom today after growing first half sales and profits.

Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 drew international headlines, has been shot, but his wounds are not life-threatening, according to media reports.