A middle-aged man was viciously assaulted by a younger man armed with a baseball bat as he took a shortcut home through a housing estate after midnight with his wife.

A man who headbutted his ex-partner into the face, breaking her nose, was jailed yesterday for five months as the judge described him as a danger to the public.

Lorraine Mulvey, who spoke out yesterday to help rape victims, said she is now looking forward to a new life with her fiancé.

A woman was terrified over the holiday period after receiving threatening phone calls and text messages from a man she knew.