Officers had been called to an address in Highgate Road where the remains were discovered, after neighbours reported a smell.

A white summer dress made famous in the iconic Tennis Girl poster of the 1970s is to be auctioned.

Luxury goods group Waterford Wedgwood today produced a marked improvement on the disappointing interim figures which led to 1,100 job cuts last year.

A search was under way in England tonight for a two-day-old baby - one of identical twin girls - who was snatched from a cot at the foot of her mother’s bed at a maternity ward.