A TEENAGER who drowned a retired clergyman and dismembered his body had the minimum term he must spend in custody for the murder doubled yesterday.

THE parents of 17 children who died at birth or shortly afterwards were left devastated when told their deceased sons and daughters were due to start school.

A BITTER stand-off between a local bishop and a priest who has locked himself in his parish home for the past 18 months has ended.

A 17-year-old boy was today appearing in court charged with the murder of a vicar whose severed body parts were found buried in a shallow grave in woodland.

Seven men have escaped a maximum jail sentence despite taking part in the world's largest internet paedophile ring.