A vet who gave a woman the wrong ashes after charging her €200 for cremating her pet dog has been cleared of trying to obtain money by deception.

THAI prime minister Somchai Wongsawat last night rejected his army chief’s call to quit in the face of anti- government protests that threaten to spiral out of control across the country.

A FEW old-timers in Ardfert still remember the little German lad named Bernd who spent three years in the Kerry village in the grim years following WWII.