1.   Adams told the court he had been out drinking but had no more than three pints.

2.   Prosecuting lawyer Tessa Kitson told the court of several more incidents in which attempts were made to cash stolen cheques.

3.   The investments failed, and all the money was now gone, the court was told, With little or no chance of anyone getting it back.

4.   The captain of Swindon Town football club has told a court how former manager Lou Macari paid him thousands of pounds in cash bonuses.

5.   The court has been told that How cheated his clients by putting their money into risky investments and property deals.

6.   PC Mark Evans told the court how six days later he discovered her submerged car at Stonebench.

7.   A pathologist told the court the couple died from multilpe injuries and Wayne from a fractured skull.

8.   STAFF at an Indian restaurant forced two angry knife-wielding customers to flee by bombarding them with curry powder, a court was told.

9.   He already had another robbery conviction against him, the court was told.

10.   A MAN murdered a Liverpool landlady while on bail for an earlier attack on her, a court was told today.