A High Court judge wants the Court of Appeal to decide significant legal issues “clearly of considerable public importance” and potentially affecting hundreds of repossession cases.

A mother told an inquest that Dutch police who saw her son’s body floating in an Amsterdam canal in front of them failed to act and as a result his body was subsequently shredded by a barge propeller.

A PUBLICAN slapped with an injunction stopping customers lighting up outside his premises says he hopes he loses his court case this week to prove the smoking ban is unworkable.