Jordan is speeding up procedures to bring to trial the man charged with shooting to death a British tourist and the wounding of six others at a popular Roman ruin in the capital, Amman, judicial officials said today.

A British tourist was reported to have been killed today when a gunman shot at a group of foreign tourists in Amman’s Roman Amphitheatre in the Jordanian capital.

Northern Irish rockers Ash were lucky to survive when their tour bus exploded after a gig in Los Angeles.