Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to sell 4,000 non-performing Irish mortgage loans to Lone Star Funds, a US investment company, according to sources.

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With their escape routes blocked by heavy smoke, most of the 13 miners caught in an explosion did what they were trained to do.

A MINING company executive said officials are “very discouraged” by air quality tests in the mine where 13 workers are trapped, and planned to drill a third hole to take additional air samples.

Rescuers trying to reach 13 trapped US miners punched a hole into the mine early today, but a company executive said he was “very discouraged” by air quality tests.