It took police controllers 10 minutes to alert officers in the North to a bomb planted outside their station, a terrorism trial in Northern Ireland heard today.

International peacekeepers arrived in East Timor’s smouldering capital to restore order as gunbattles beteen renegade troops and government forces threatened to plunge the world’s youngest country into civil war.

Three members of a “lunatic fringe” animal rights group were jailed for 12 years each in the UK today for their parts in a terror campaign, during which the body of an 82-year-old woman was stolen from her grave.

Steve Gollings’ grand stable servant Springfield Scally has been retired.

Steve Gollings’ grand stable servant Springfield Scally has been retired.