Food giant Heinz has warned that almost 250 jobs could be cut in the UK and Ireland under organisational changes.

TOP tourist town Killarney is at risk of losing visitors and “being dropped as a twin” as its town councillors are not going abroad often enough.

SHEEP farmers here and in the rest of Europe are having a challenging time. Several major supermarkets are offering two for the price of one, which means the farmers get half the usual price for their produce.

An unlawful killing verdict was recorded today on a Muslim teenager who was found dead on a river bank five months after she disappeared.

A woman who walked away virtually unscathed from the Cumbria train crash today told how she was flung around the carriage "like a pin in a pinball machine" before it came to rest upside down.

Kevin McGee, chief executive of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay which runs the three hospital sites which took those injured from the train crash in Cumbria last night, admitted he had been expecting more casualties.

All nine carriages on a high-speed tilting train containing around 200 people derailed in Cumbria last night, leaving passengers injured and trapped.

Dale Farm, the processing arm of Northern Irish co-op United Dairy Farmers, has purchased the British dairy operation of Parmalat, the controversial Italian food giant.

Nineteen people were tonight being treated for Legionnaires’ disease after what doctors fear could be the UK’s ever biggest outbreak.

An independent inquiry into the foot-and-mouth crisis in the British county worst-hit by the disease was due to begin today.