THE closure of the rail line at Cahir in County Tipperary, due to last week's derailment of a freight train, has seriously disrupted beet deliveries to the Irish Sugar factories in Mallow, and Carlow.

AN extra 100 articulated trucks a day will travel the Wexford to Cork road for the next 12 weeks if the freight service provided by Iarnród Éireann is axed, growers warned last night.

A Los Angeles state appeals court has revived part of a lawsuit brought by Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed that accuses a Beverly Hills lawyer of a $20m (£13m) scheme to sell false documents claiming Diana, Princess of Wales, was assassinated.