An inquest has been opened into the death of a baby girl from a suspected methadone overdose in England.

A CATHOLIC priest whose sexual abuse of seven schoolgirls in Britain was uncovered 30 years later after two women shared memories of him on the Friends Reunited website was jailed for one year yesterday.

A diary kept by the female member of a trio who imprisoned an epileptic man in a garden shed in the south west of England desribes the torture and starvation the handyman suffered before his death.

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy raped two boys aged seven and nine and made them perform indecent acts on others, a British court was told yesterday.

I AM delighted to see the recent success of the Wolfe Tones' version of Thomas Davis's 'A Nation Once Again' as a candidate in the BBC's No1 song of all time.

The ultimate Christmas gift for UK train enthusiasts is on offer with the sale of a narrow gauge steam-operated railway with three-quarters of a mile of track.

American firm Xerox is to close a factory in the UK with the loss of about 1,300 jobs under plans to reduce costs, unions were told today.

Four more cases of foot-and-mouth have been confirmed - taking the daily total to 17 and the number of outbreaks to 181.

Farmers in Gloucestershire have began rounding up 10,000 sheep in the Forest of Dean after a second case of foot-and-mouth was confirmed in the county.

Farmers are preparing for the foot and mouth crisis to spread further after the disease took hold in two new counties.