British Open golf champion Darren Clarke has married his former model girlfriend in a beach ceremony in the Bahamas.

Hurricane Jeanne lashed the Bahamas with violent winds and torrential rains today, making a direct hit on Abaco island and threatening the country’s second largest city of Freeport while hundreds of people took refuge in emergency shelters.

Hundreds of people fled their homes and took refuge in shelters set up in schools and churches today as Hurricane Jeanne bore down on the Bahamas with 100mph winds and torrential rains, threatening more destruction to an island chain still recovering from Hurricane Frances.

The parents of rhythm and blues singer and actress Aaliyah have reached an undisclosed settlement in a negligence action over her death in plane crash, family lawyers say.