Independent presidential candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon has claimed she is lucky to be alive after her campaign car suffered a tyre blow-out on a motorway.

The captain of a boat that capsized on a lake in New York State, killing 20 people, told authorities it was hit by waves from another boat or boats, and his went over as he tried to steer out of them, authorities said today.

Shares in troubled engineering group Mowlem plummeted today after it issued its third profits warning in eight months.

British construction group Mowlem warned on profits today for the second time in as many months and said its finance chief was quitting.