A galaxy removed from the pomp and splendour of St Paul’s Cathedral, it was business as usual in the gales and rain in unpretentious Dromanassig, Co Kerry, yesterday.

Killer nurse Beverly Allitt, who was sentenced in 1993 to 13 life sentences for murdering and attacking children, today had her minimum term fixed at 28 years and 175 days by a judge in the High Court in the UK.

The last circus bear left in Britain was flying out to a new home in Canada today.

THE chief constable of a British police force that is prosecuting an ambulance driver for an alleged speeding offence while he carried a transplant organ yesterday hit back at critics who believe the case should never have been brought.