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Downing Street rebuffed suggestions from Irish deputy premier Micheal Martin that asylum seekers were now fearful of staying in the UK.

The former glamour model was due to face questions about her finances in court on Friday but did not attend.

The RAC said the sector’s decision to create its own set of rules ‘muddies the waters’ amid delays in new Government regulations being implemented.

School children aged 10 to 14 were invited to ask D-Day veterans questions at an event in London on Friday.

Dylan Earl is charged with aggravated arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

The first trial was abandoned in its 17th week after the judge was not informed that a friend of Beal was a staff member at Northampton Crown Court.

Devon and Cornwall Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

His resignation coincides with the appointment of politician and businessman Lord Theodore Agnew as the new director of its owner, All Perspectives.

Headaches for Co-op Arena became clear after capacity for a test event last Saturday was reduced with just hours’ notice.

Fiona Beal had initially pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of of a loss of control.

Father Gabriel Romanelli was speaking in Glasgow on Friday.

The ICRIR has outlined transitional arrangements to allow it to continue investigations where inquests into Troubles deaths are at an advanced stage.

Former band member John Lodge announced that Pinder died on Wednesday.

The 13-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons will appear at Swansea Crown Court on May 24.

Businessman John Jacob Astor, 47, went down with the ship in 1912 after seeing new wife Madeleine onto a lifeboat.

The banking group said new mortgage lending totalled £5.2 billion in the first three months of the year, down from £9.9 billion the previous year.

The make-up of the Scottish Parliament means the First Minister faces a tough fight for his political future.

Christopher Cash is accused of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.

The Ulster Unionist minister has called on the Stormont Assembly to ‘strategically review’ and change a draft budget agreed by the Executive.

The Scottish First Minister faces a potential vote of no confidence in his leadership after he axed the powersharing deal with the Greens.