A FATHER who drove his two “defenceless” young children into a freezing river, killing his five-year-old daughter, was last night beginning a life sentence in jail.

An official probe should establish whether children in the North were harmed by a teaching website run by a paedophile, the North's education minister said today.

A father was remanded in custody today charged with the attempted murder of his children, who were rescued after a car plunged into the River Avon, a prosecutor said.

A six-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with a girl aged five after they plunged into a river in a car has been “sitting up in bed and talking”, police said today.

A MAN taking part in a WWII re-enactment was taken to hospital after a grenade exploded in his hands, an ambulance service has said.

A bride was rushed to hospital on her wedding day after being thrown from the horse-drawn carriage she was travelling in, paramedics in Britain said today.

The rescue of people stranded by flooding is continuing this morning in the UK.

AS a native of Tyrone I wish to express my total dissatisfaction with RTÉ’s decision to discontinue sports coverage on long and medium wave radio on Sunday afternoons.

Northern Foods today said full year profits would be £6m (€8.6m) lower than last year after poorer sales to Marks & Spencer left Christmas trading short of expectations.

Northern Foods today said it had fallen into the red as it counted the cost of its business shake-up and factory closures.

Northern Foods is set to close two UK pastry factories with the loss of 1,060 jobs, it was announced today.

An emotional Ronnie O’Sullivan dedicated his second Embassy world snooker title to his jailed father Ronnie senior after demolishing Graeme Dott 18-8 in a one-sided final at The Crucible.

A TRAGIC failure to follow the strict rules governing unmanned rail crossings may have caused yesterday’s fatal accident.

Three people were killed and up to seven others seriously injured today when the minibus they were travelling in collided with a London intercity train.

TWO drivers were among five people killed on Saturday when their coach crashed on Britain’s M25.

Police investigating a British motorway coach death crash that killed five people were tonight looking a the possibility that the driver fell asleep at the wheel.