THE prospect of some general scheme of debt forgiveness being available to distressed mortgage holders has increased after the Government signalled that it may consider further ways to ease pressure on struggling borrowers.

A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested in Florida for allegedly locking her seven-year-old daughter in a room for four months and giving her so little food she looked like “a walking skeleton”.

A member of the Backstreet Boys has been arrested for allegedly resisting police after a fight broke out in a nightclub.