An inmate ran a £700,000 (€780,000) drugs operation with the help of his mother on the outside, a court has heard. Ryan Ratcliffe, 28, from Salford, and another prisoner Ben Harding, 27, used the telephone system at HMP Magilligan in Northern Ireland to co-ordinate the cultivation and supply of cannabis, said Greater Manchester Police. Among […]
A 47-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman from Crawley in West Sussex – just a few miles from the airport – are being held on suspicion of disrupting an airport after being arrested at 10pm on Friday. The arrests were part of “ongoing investigations into the criminal use of drones which has severely disrupted flights […]
The funeral will take place this morning of a young teach who died following a tragic climbing accident in South America last week. Speaking on behalf of the family of Barney Dobbin, local councillor Henry Cushinan said they wished to express their deep gratitude to the Kevin Bell Trust for its assistance in bringing the […]
The town of Strokestown is subdued coming up to the shortest day of the year. A covered stall of fluorescent jackets and checked work shirts stands in the square, and Christmas music plays from a speaker outside the florist shop. A local woman orders tea for two in the Percy French hotel. If local people […]
LONDON — It is one of the busiest airports in Europe. It survived World War II, when it served as a base for R.A.F. night fighters flying missions against Nazi Germany. It has just been brought to a standstill by the humble drone. “This hasn’t happened anywhere in the world before,” said Richard Gill, the […]
Police are searching for a three-year-old boy who has gone missing with his mother. Olly Sheridan is at the centre of a family court dispute between his estranged parents Ellie Yarrow-Sanders, 26, and Patrick Sheridan, 45. A UK High Court judge earlier this week raised the alarm. Mr Justice Williams, who has overseen a hearing […]
A train has slammed into a bus carrying school students in southern Serbia, cutting it in half and killing five people, police say. Dozens of people were injured and two teenagers were fighting for their lives after the accident, which happened early on Friday near the city of Nis. A child and two adults were […]
A judge has described an incident in west Clare – when two men stopped a car driving out of Doonbeg – as “vigilantism at its worst”. Judge Patrick Durcan made his comment at Kilrush District Court after hearing one person lost a prosthetic finger in the incident when a car containing four people was stopped […]
After tracking all killings in the capital, including cases ruled as manslaughter as well as murder, Sky News found the longest gap between fatal attacks was between 25 September to 10 October. In the last week, a fatal shooting in Enfield on 18 December and a stabbing in Haringey on 22 December have brought the […]
An 87-year-old woman, who fractured one of her vertebrae and broke her left wrist when she fell in a Dublin nursing home, has been awarded €40,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court. Barrister Grainne Larkin told the court that Eileen Ormsby, had fallen in a bathroom at Beechlawn Nursing Home, Northwood Park, Santry, but the […]