A woman killed her two young children while they slept in a Spanish hotel room and spent the night with their bodies, a jury has heard.

The bodies of two children whose mother admitted suffocating them in a hotel room are expected to be buried in Spain next week.

A WOMAN who admitted suffocating her two children with a plastic bag in aSpanish hotel room last week tried to kill herself before she was arrested, police said yesterday.

THE case of a family whose two children were found dead in a Spanish hotel room has been referred to Britain’s police watchdog.

A British woman arrested after the deaths of her two children is expected to undergo psychiatric tests today as she waits to learn whether a case will be brought against her.

The investigation into the deaths of two children in a Spanish hotel room took a dramatic twist today when it emerged that they were the son and daughter of an alleged paedophile who was extradited yesterday.

Two children found dead yesterday in a hotel room in Spain were named today as Rebecca Smith, five, and her brother Daniel, aged 11 months.

A Kilkenny roofer who transported cocaine valued over €200,000 because of his so-called "drugs debt" to criminals will be sentenced later by Judge Rory MacCabe.

A burglar who fell through the ceiling of a house after hiding from gardaí under the insulation in an attic has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man whose family have had to leave their home due to threats from drug dealers who claim he owes them €1,500 has been given a four-year sentence for storing €700,000 cannabis resin in his bedroom.

A 17-year-old boy, who allegedly had about €9,500 worth of heroin stashed in his bedroom, has been sent forward for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Rescue workers are trying to release up to eleven people trapped in their vehicles after a bridge collapsed in Oklahoma in the US.