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Brian Wilson, Royksopp and The Wailers are among the artists that have today been confirmed to play Irish boutique music festival Electric Picnic this year.

A US waste management company is planning to build a major facility here in the first project of its kind to seek permission under the new fast-track planning procedure for large-scale infrastructure.

Their options dwindling after losing two consecutive court appeals, Terri Schiavo’s parents vowed today to take their fight to the US Supreme Court as their brain-damaged daughter was in her fifth full day without a feeding tube.