WITH more than 155 years of marriage between them, eight couples walked down the aisle for the second time yesterday.

The family of a mother hacked to death by a mental patient demanded a public inquiry today into why her murderer had been allowed to walk free from a psychiatric hospital a month before the killing.

A woman murdered and dumped in a river had been in a relationship with a man she met in a psychiatric hospital, it was disclosed today.

A post mortem examination on the body of a woman found in the river Lagan in Lisburn, Co Antrim, on Sunday has revealed she died of stab wounds to the chest.

A woman murdered and dumped in a river had been stabbed to death, police in Northern Ireland said tonight.