Four members of an Irish Traveller family have today been found guilty in Britain of servitude and forced labour.

Men who said they were kept as slaves on a Travellers’ site escaped by jumping into a canal, hiding in a back garden, and confiding in a community service officer, a British jury has heard.

A man charged in connection with alleged slavery offences following a police raid at a Travellers' site in Leighton Buzzard has been remanded in custody by magistrates.

Three brothers and their brother-in-law have appeared in court charged with enslaving four men found at a travellers’ site in the UK.

Four Irish men from the same family will appear in court in the UK today charged with slavery offences relating to four people found at a travellers’ site.

WORKERS are being held in slave conditions in Irish homes and businesses because of a lack of legislation to either protect them or prosecute their enslavers.

SOME of the Travellers staying at the British caravan site at the centre of a slavery investigation are normally resident in Ireland and have claimed no knowledge of what was going on under their noses.

Police in the UK are questioning five Irish people in connection with a suspected slavery ring in Bedfordshire.

Weather-weary Britons battled ice and snow today to either get away for the Christmas break or to do last-minute shopping.

BRITISH police shut down a busy railway station north of London yesterday after an explosives-packed car was found outside it.

A “pity-seeking” couple fulfilled a suicide pact by taking a lethal poison at a Swiss euthanasia clinic after suffering decades of ill-health, an inquest was told yesterday.

Veteran British comedian and television host Bob Monkhouse died today at his Bedfordshire home, his manager said. He was 75.

THE British Government was yesterday accused of abdicating its responsibilities towards vulnerable members of society by failing to implement laws on assisted suicide.