Two drivers working for the owners of Cornish pasty makers Ginsters were killed and a third was injured in the horrific M5 crash in the UK, the company said today.

Telecom giant Nortel Networks, which has operations in England and Northern Ireland, is to slash its work force by 10% as it struggles to recover from an accounting scandal that led to a criminal investigation.

A SPURNED wife was given a life sentence yesterday after being found guilty of murdering her love rival.

Workers at computer giant Hewlett-Packard, which employs thousands of people in Ireland, faced an uncertain future today after it emerged that the company planned to shed 1,400 jobs in Britain.