The inquest into the death of an Irish toddler in an horrific car crash in England which claimed the life of his unborn sister and left their parents fighting for their lives is due to open on Monday.

I WAS in Dublin Castle last Saturday, watching the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore fawning over former US president Bill Clinton like giddy interns basking in his momentary attention, yet they missed the key point of his brilliantly-delivered speech — that unless you decouple families from unsustainable, and unpayable, mortgage debt, you condemn this economy to a decades-long recession.

THE mother of a teenager charged in connection with an investigation into child sexual exploitation and abuse said yesterday he would not harm anybody.

AN investigation into the suspected sexual abuse and exploitation of up to 20 children has been launched by police in England.

Timmy Murphy sustained a suspected shoulder injury following a fall in the Clovelly Lifeboat Juvenile Novices’ Hurdle at Newton Abbot.

Three more people in the UK have been diagnosed with swine flu, the British Department of Health (DH) said today.

Two more countries confirmed swine flu cases today as fear and uncertainty about the disease circled the globe.

The famous Monty Python comedy 'The Life of Brian' is to be screened for the first time in an English holiday resort after a council ban was declared void, it was announced today.

HE’S 93 and she’s 84 but yesterday they proved nobody is too old for romance and getting married.

Attempts will be made later today to take in tow a storm-hit cargo ship from which 20 crew were dramatically rescued in the Channel last night, said British coastguards.

A father and son were among four people killed when a helicopter crashed into hills in the UK in bad weather, it emerged today.

Storm force winds with gusts of up to 80mph were expected to batter Southern England and Wales again tonight.

Tony Blair, speaking at his own election count in Durham, thanked the voters who swept him to victory, saying: "I thank the British people. There's no greater honour than to serve you as Prime Minister.