The Liberal Democrats say they are hopeful a deal can be reached with the Tories today on forming a government in the UK.

The British government does not believe there is enough evidence to back changing the law on abortion, a health minister said today.

ONE of the more interesting news stories last week was that of Church of England vicar Joanna Jepson, who took the British police to court over their failure to investigate the abortion of a 24- week-old unborn child with a cleft palate.