One of the UK's most prestigious performing arts centres apologised today after it emerged a sculpture in one of its buildings was the work of a man who raped and murdered two children.

The investigation into the killing of a 10-year-old girl in Crothersville, Indiana appears to be drawing eerie parallels to a 1987 case in England that was the first to use DNA to solve a crime.

A mother has won an eight-year battle for justice when a British High Court judge approved a £2.6 million pay-out for her severely brain-damaged son.