HURRICANE DENNIS closed in on the Gulf Coast last night with battering waves and high winds after strengthening into a dangerous Category 4 storm, roaring toward a region still patching up damage from a hurricane 10 months ago.

A 14-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl on the run with her 23-year-old cousin asked a maverick bishop in the North to marry them before fleeing south of the Border.

Neans McSweeney