The father of murdered British hostess Lucie Blackman has accepted a payout from an old friend of the Japanese man charged with killing his daughter, he said today.

Thousands of runners packed the cobbled streets of Pamplona today as they took on the bulls for the third of eight planned runs.

Police in Japan have identified the dismembered remains found in a beachside cave near Tokyo as those of British bar hostess Lucie Blackman.

Police investigating the disappearance of a British bar hostess have begun an autopsy to determine the identify of a dismembered woman's body.

Lucie Blackman's father is meeting Scotland Yard officers after human remains were found in a cave in Japan.