Richard Branson’s airline Virgin Atlantic is to operate extra flights to America from the UK this summer, creating hundreds of new jobs, it was announced today.

Gary Ridgway, the serial killer who terrorised Seattle in the early 1980s, tearfully apologised for “killing all those young ladies” as a judge sentenced him today to life in prison without the chance of release.

Uttering the word “guilty” 48 times with chilling calm, Gary Leon Ridgway admitted being the US serial murderer known as the Green River Killer and confessed to strangling four dozen women over two decades – “so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight”.

Serial killer Gary Ridgway walked into a Seattle court today and admitted murdering 48 women – a US record.

A MAN, who has been married three times and is the father of a child, is to stand before a judge in Seattle this week accused of 48 charges of murder.

A man who has been married three times and is the father of a child, is to stand before a judge in Seattle this week accused of 48 charges of murder.

THE man suspected of being the Green River Killer has agreed to plead guilty next week to the murders of 48 women in a deal that would spare him from execution.

A suspected serial killer in the US has agreed to plead guilty next week to the murders of 48 women in a deal that would spare him from execution, according to reports.