Melbourn Estate in Bishopstown has alway had a sort of American suburbs layout and feel to it, much in part due to the way it was laid out, back around 1969, with all front gardens undivided and rolling one to the other another, with neat lawns along its length, between Curraheen Rd and Model Farm Rd.

US authorities said a woman offered a two-year-old girl up for sale on eBay and accepted a man’s tongue-in-cheek bid.

A US judge has ordered a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a body so it would fit in a casket to close.

AUTHORITIES revoked the licenses of a South Carolina funeral home and its director after he admitted one of his employees cut the legs of a 6ft 7in man without the family’s permission so that the corpse would fit in a casket.

Another case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed in Northumberland, bringing the total in the region to eight.