A BABY girl was killed and her three-year-old brother critically injured in a collision between the car they were travelling in and a lorry in Ashfield Cross, Co Wexford, yesterday. Katie Clarges, nine months, and brother Connell were with their parents Paul and Grainne from Loughlinstown, Co Dublin. Connell was transferred from Wexford general hospital to Beaumount hospital in Dublin last night. His parents remained in hospital in Wexford.
Blind biker’s 165mph ride beats record
A FORMER soldier broke the world land speed record for the blind when he rode his motorcycle at 165mph at RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire. Billy Baxter, 39, from Cambridge, had riders on either side of him giving him instructions by radio. Baxter, who lost his sight while with the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, said breaking the record on his 1200cc Kawasaki was like “riding a hurricane”.
Kim threatens to cancel nuclear talks
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NORTH Korea threatened to cancel talks on its nuclear weapons less than 24 hours after appearing to defuse the crisis by agreeing to negotiate with America and its Asian neighbours. President Kim Jong-il complained that Washington wanted to bring the issue to the United Nations security council and warned that this would be a “prelude to war”. He denounced 190 acts of US “aerial espionage”.
Adams warned
GERRY ADAMS, the Sinn Fein MP for Belfast West, has been warned by police that he is being targeted for attack by dissident republicans. Police visited Adams at his west Belfast home on Friday night.
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Drugs seizure
GARDAI made their first seizure of the purest form of heroin in Ireland yesterday. About €100,000 worth of the drug was found buried in a field beside Le Fanu Park in Ballyfermot, west Dublin, after a week of surveillance.
Gang arrests
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TWO men were arrested for riotous behaviour after gangs of nationalists and loyalists clashed in Belfast yesterday. A lorry was hijacked and set alight in Glenmachan Street, west Belfast, and police were stoned.
Planning objection
A NUMBER of objections have been lodged to a proposal by the RDS to construct new buildings at its premises in Ballsbridge, Dublin. The RDS wants to build five buildings up to six storeys high.
Plane accident
A PILOT was found dead in his light aircraft nearly a day after it plummeted into thick woodland near Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The alarm was raised after the plane vanished in bad weather.
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Hospital search
RESCUE workers searched for survivors of a suicide bomb blast that killed 42 people at a military hospital in Mozdok, southern Russia.
Lindbergh secret
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CHARLES LINDBERGH, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, had three children by a German mistress whom he met in Munich when he was 55, a German newspaper said.
Body discovered
GARDAI are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered yesterday in a lane outside a quarry in Togher, Co Louth.