A Texas man faces execution by lethal injection this evening for the 1993 Christmas Eve killings of a father and two children.

Former England full-back Matt Perry looks likely to miss Bath’s crunch Zurich Premiership clash against fellow relegation candidates Bristol Shoguns on Sunday.

A search was under way in England tonight for a two-day-old baby - one of identical twin girls - who was snatched from a cot at the foot of her mother’s bed at a maternity ward.