Rugby star Johne Murphy asked his teammates to raise money for Movember after his father was diagnosed with a tumour in his prostate.

Scotland Yard is expected to have spent more on policing the riots than it spent on policing all major public order events in the capital last year, officials said today.

Magistrates have rejected accusations from the leader of Britain’s prison governors that there has been a “feeding frenzy” in sentencing after the recent riots.

THE Dublin county coroner has recorded a verdict of death by medical misadventure at an inquest into the death of a man who died the day after a routine prostate operation was performed at a private Co Kildare hospital.