Sweets and chocolates are to be removed from checkouts at all Tesco stores in Ireland and the UK by the end of the year.

Many women who are treated in hospital for a miscarriage are done so alongside pregnant women, which many find "distressing".

SUSPECTED dissident Republicans were in custody last night after a millionaire businessman was tied up and pistol-whipped, while his pregnant wife was held at gunpoint in what gardaí believe was an extortion bid attempt.