Around 50 passengers escaped serious injury after a coach crashed and overturned on the M5 in England.

A fireworks contractor in charge of a display held in the UK on the night of a massive motorway crash in which seven people died and 51 were injured has been cleared of breaching health and safety laws.

Former England captain and coach Martin Johnson has been banned from driving after speeding at more than 100mph.

Two men hatched a plot to rob and kill international pop star Joss Stone before dumping her body in a river, a court heard today.

Police in the North are investigating reports of an explosion near police officers who were in the Hazelbank area of Newtownabbey last night.

A security alert is underway in north Belfast.

A woman has died and two others were seriously injured after a tree fell on them as floods and high winds battered the South West.

IT is nearly inevitable that there will be a catastrophic motorway pile-up in Ireland similar to one on the M5 in England last month if tailgating does not stop, a leading road safety researcher has warned.

Police in the UK revealed today that they have had almost 200 calls from members of the public offering information about the crash on the M5 last Friday which killed seven people.

Two drivers working for the owners of Cornish pasty makers Ginsters were killed and a third was injured in the horrific M5 crash in the UK, the company said today.

A fireworks display at a rugby club is at the centre of the investigation into a crash which killed seven people on the M5 in Britain on Friday.

EMERGENCY crews scoured burnt-out vehicles yesterday following one of Britain’s worst ever motorway pile-ups that triggered a huge fireball and killed seven people.

A multiple crash on Britain's M5 motorway in which at least seven people died triggered a "massive fireball", police said.

Britain has not seen a road traffic accident on the sheer scale of yesterday’s M5 motorway pile-up for the past two decades, according to experts.

Several people were killed in England last night after a horrific motorway crash involving around 27 vehicles.

A multi-vehicle smash on a motorway has led to reports of “multiple serious injuries and possible fatalities”, English police said tonight.

MY road to the festival was the M5.

Another blast of wintry weather in the UK led to more problems for travellers today, with forecasters predicting further snow over the weekend.

Flash flooding will continue throughout the week as more bands of wet weather sweep across Britain, the Environment Agency warned today.

The rescue of people stranded by flooding is continuing this morning in the UK.

COMING to this theatre of racing dreams with favoured horses is always something of a double-edged sword and Philip Hobbs yesterday slipped and fell on the sharp edge of that particular weapon when hot-pots Fair Along and Detroit City failed to live up to expectations.

Manchester United fans who might be tempted to stage a disruptive Cup Final demonstration against the takeover of their club by an American businessman were warned today that police have drawn up their plans for the game with the precision of a military campaign.

A HORRIFIED mother watched her teenage daughter cling on to the open door of an ambulance as it sped along the motorway before falling off and being killed.

THE father of a teenage British girl who fell from the back of an ambulance on to a motorway yesterday told how his horrified wife helped drag her unconscious daughter out of the path of oncoming traffic.

Police in Northern Ireland were today questioning two men after a stolen tipper lorry was stopped travelling the wrong way down a city by-pass.