DESRIBED by himself as ‘poor, friendless and joyless’ Anthony Trollope arrived in Ireland in 1841 to work as clerk to an Irish surveyor at a salary of £100 a year.

Police in Australia said today they had killed a crocodile believed to have eaten a 22-year-old man and were and planning to cut the animal open to search for his remains.

Authorities searching for a crocodile and the remains of a man it killed believe they may have spotted the reptile in the stretch of river where the attack took place in northern Australia, police said today.