JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell last night warned he would revoke the licenses of security companies unless proper procedures were implemented immediately.

THE article headlined ‘Shop around and save €300 on petrol’ by Seán McCárthaigh (Irish Examiner, August 20) didn’t tell consumers anything they shouldn’t already know, but it may raise awareness that it is worthwhile checking prices.

A chronic drug addict who doused a filling station assistant with petrol and threatened to set him alight, before robbing money from the shop and getting away in a stolen car, has been remanded in custody for sentence on June 15.