The sentence handed down to a social recluse whose internet piracy scam put the movie industry at risk of losing stg£120m should act as a warning to others engaged in such crimes, a judge said.

A former health board chief and a solicitor were among six Northern Ireland judicial appointments today.

A cleaner who claims she was pressurised into quitting her job at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast phoned the Dean sobbing that she did not want to leave, a tribunal heard today.