Two men who took cash from fruit machines across the UK were caught after they took selfies of themselves to celebrate their crimes, police have said.

A British mother who snatched her twins from under the noses of social workers and who may have taken them to Ireland was told she had only a slim chance of keeping the children, her elder daughter said today.

TWO men were last night charged with attempting to murder the English couple who were dragged from their camper van and subjected to a vicious hatchet attack near the Northern border in Co Louth.

Two people in a van were seriously injured today in a level crossing accident in which a passenger train was derailed in the UK.