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Police identify three found dead in flat
Scotland Yard has formally identified the three people found dead in a flat in Bow, east London, on Monday of last week, writes Frank Millar.
Following postmortems, the police named them as Margaret Ward (29), aka Hanrahan, of Birchdown House, Devons Road; Leon Barrett (51), of no fixed address; and their daughter Elleono Ward-Fuller, also of Devons Road, who was aged just five months.
A postmortem carried out on Ms Ward/Hanrahan established cause of death as multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest. Postmortems on the baby and her father were inconclusive and are awaiting the result of further tests.
DCI Dave Marshall of the Specialist Crime Directorate, Child Abuse Investigation Command, said: "While it would appear on the known facts to date that no one else was involved in these deaths, we will not be in a position to confirm this view until the results of the post mortems, forensic analysis and other ongoing inquiries are completed."
CIÉ plans for Galway criticised
A row has broken out over a €1bn plan by CIÉ to develop a transport hub and new urban quarter for Galway city centre, writes Lorna Siggins.
Labour Party president Michael D Higgins has accused CIÉ and Minister for Transport Martin Cullen of a "sleight of hand" over the plan.
Mr Higgins and several environmental groups have criticised the fact that only one-quarter of the six-hectare site is to be used for public transport, while three-quarters of the area is to be developed for housing, retail and commercial outlets.
Order of Malta ambulance fire
An Order of Malta Ambulance Corps in south Dublin has been forced to move its vehicles after a second ambulance belonging to it was burned out at the weekend.
The ambulance, stored at a school and belonging to the Templeogue branch of the organisation, was set alight late on Sunday night.
It had already been taken out of service due to a previous break-in.