A 16-year-old girl who smothered a seven-year-girl and slashed at her body with a Stanley knife was suffering from delusional beliefs about people around her not being human, a judge has been told.

A 16-year-old girl has admitted the manslaughter of seven-year-old Katie Rough.

Sixty years on, Waiting for Godot is as alluringly mysterious as ever, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler.

A man was jailed for blackmail yesterday after falsely claiming he had images of a Premiership footballer taking drugs and associating with prostitutes.