One morning three weeks ago, in the Okanagan Valley in the Canadian Rockies, my wife and I woke in our son’s makeshift but comfortable camper van and looked out to see, between us and distant snow-capped mountains, a vast lake glittering and winking in the sun.

Karen’s parents John and Marian, and brothers Brendan, Kieran, and Damien sat in silent contemplation as Fr Joe O’Keeffe paid a moving tribute to their loss.

A Thai court has sentenced a British kickboxer to 25 years in jail for the 2010 murder of a former US Marine on a resort island.

The Anthologist