The Australian Cricket team won the World Cup yesterday - at home, no less - as they took a seven-wicket victory over New Zealand in the World Cup final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

The Director of Prosecutions was today asked to reconsider its decision to drop a murder charge against a man involved in a fatal school gate fight with a retired Co Down grandfather.

A Co Down man involved in a fatal school-gate fight with a pupil’s grandfather had a string of convictions for violence, it was revealed today.