A book just published calls for an all-out war on free-ranging cats, writes Richard Collins

A federal judge has rejected a bid by two women to join a high-profile sexual abuse lawsuit and ordered scandalous sex allegations against the Duke of York and a prominent US lawyer removed from the court record.

A helicopter carrying five people on a private tour for a birthday celebration crashed into the East River in New York shortly after take-off yesterday, killing a British woman and injuring three others.