Walker Cup hopefuls Simon Ward and Jonathan Caldwell will lead the chase for the East of Ireland Amateur Open at Co Louth on Saturday.

A man appeared in court today charged with abducting two schoolgirls from a children’s home in Northern Ireland.

Serial killer Harold Shipman’s deteriorating state of mind and his path to suicide were recorded in his prison diary.

The death of serial killer GP Harold Shipman at Wakefield Prison “could not have been predicted or prevented”, a report by Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Stephen Shaw said today.

Two prisoners sharing a cell died in an apparent suicide pact today.

The body of Harold Shipman has been released to his family after an inquest into his death was opened and adjourned.

An independent inquiry into the death of doctor Harold Shipman was beginning today at the prison where he died.

The independent inquiry into the death of Harold Shipman will begin tomorrow morning, the British Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has said.

Killer doctor Harold Shipman took the secrets of 215 murders to the grave when he was found hanged in his prison cell today.