A book of evidence has been served on a 44-year-old man accused of murdering a mother of three in Cork City last March.

Gardaí have launched a murder inquiry after an autopsy on the body of a woman discovered in a flat on the northside of Cork city yesterday ruled that she had been violently attacked.

Two people have died and a third has suffered life-threatening injuries after a light aircraft crashed in an area of woodland close to an airfield and a holiday park in England.