From gannets using it instead of seaweed to build nests on the Skelligs right down to it spoiling the most remote Antarctic habitats, plastic has become the environmental scourge of the age.

Two men have been arrested after a fire on board a ferry sparked an emergency rescue and forced it to return to Newcastle.

A “DEVIOUS” 48-year-old man who tricked two teenage girls on the internet into believing he was 17 and then raped them was yesterday jailed indefinitely.