National News

The Irish Government has won a vote of confidence in the speaker of the parliament.

Tom Crowther was named in January as someone who would help the Government with their work to tackle child sex abuse and grooming gangs.

Marcus La Croix, 37, is accused alongside Michael Clarke, 35, of murdering 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake during a ‘ride-out’ in north London.

Camilla hosted a reception at Clarence House on Tuesday for the SafeLives charity which aims to eradicate domestic abuse.

Hoads Wood was described as an ‘environmental disaster’ by local people after it was buried under landfill waste.

The Dail is debating a confidence motion in Ceann Comhairle (speaker) Verona Murphy.

Clarke is suing the newspaper’s publisher Guardian News and Media (GNM) over seven articles and a podcast.

A period of warm weather will continue this week, with temperatures expected to peak at 22C on Friday.

Kerri Pegg, 42, denies misconduct and possession of criminal property

Six fire engines were sent to Blairlinn industrial estate in Cumbernauld where a building was ‘well alight’.

Russia will be placed on the top level of the Government’s forthcoming foreign influence registration scheme (Firs).

Farming and food sector leaders said they were ‘very concerned’ about the concessions ministers could make to secure exemptions from US tariffs.

Prosecution counsel Harpreet Sandhu used his closing speech at Leicester Crown Court to accuse the 15-year-old of leaving Bhim Kohli for dead.

The club said it is ‘very sorry that these events took place at Celtic Boys Club’.

The blue and gold-painted Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg is one of 123 painted eggs scattered in a charity trail across the capital.

The firms agreed not to compete with each other when advertising what percentage of their cars can be recycled, the CMA said.

Dr Ben Spencer MP called for a new ‘duty to co-operate’ in law to ease repeated disruption when utilities companies dig up roads.