Fresh foods group Geest found itself at the centre of takeover speculation today after Icelandic investors swallowed a larger slice of the company.

THE driver jailed for causing the deaths of 10 people in the Selby train crash yesterday lost a Court of Appeal bid to challenge his conviction.

An earthquake shook large parts of England and Wales early today.

A lorry was left hanging over a railway line today following an accident on a bridge.

Gary Hart, the driver convicted of causing the deaths of 10 people in the Selby rail crash, has been jailed for five years.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of causing the deaths of 10 passengers in the Selby train crash has retired to consider its verdict.

The man at the centre of the Selby rail crash court case in Britain saw the train passengers' faces as it ploughed into his Land Rover.

Food group Greencore, which last year bought ready meals firm Hazlewood, showed it was being hit by the intense supermarket competition today.

The driver of the Land Rover involved in the Selby rail disaster has been charged with causing the death of 10 people by dangerous driving.

Police are appealing for 13 people who travelled on the passenger train in the Selby rail crash to come forward.

South Yorkshire Police have confirmed that five bodies were recovered from outside the carriage at the Selby crash scene.

One of the survivors of the Selby train crash has been re-living her ordeal.

The driver of the Land Rover which caused the Selby rail crash is being interviewed by police.

13 people are now confirmed to have died in the Selby rail crash.

Casualties from the Selby rail crash have been taken to hospitals throughout the region.

According to police officials, nobody alive is left on board the GNER passenger train that crashed into a Land Rover and goods train near Selby this morning.

British Transport Police have accounted for 83 people involved in the Yorkshire train crash that so far has claimed over a dozen lives.

Police fear up to 150 people may have been injured in this morning's rail accident near Selby in Yorkshire.

Shares in Railtrack have fallen back as news swept through the London markets of an early morning collision between an Intercity passenger train and a freight train near Selby in North Yorkshire.

Following this morning's rail accident at Selby, a statement on the GNER website reads -

Police have determined the sequence of events at Great Heck, near the Yorkshire town of Selby, that has so far resulted in 13 deaths and 56 injuries.

The death toll in the Selby rail crash has risen to 13, with a further 50 people injured - 30 of them seriously - following this morning's collision involving two trains and a Land Rover at Great Heck, near the Yorkshire town of Selby.

The death toll in the Selby rail crash has risen to 13, with a further 30 people seriously injured.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue officials now say 13 people have been killed in the Selby rail crash.

Up to 12 people are now feared dead after the Selby train crash.

The death toll in the Selby rail crash has risen to six, with 60 injured - 30 of them seriously.

Government officials are trying to discover the source of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease threatening to cripple Britain's farming industry.