Police had been called to Park Beck care home in St Leonards-on-Sea after Donald Burgess had reportedly threatened staff with a serrated knife.

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.

The child poverty strategy, originally due to be published this spring, was expected to include a recommendation to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Richard Satchwell is on trial at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Tina, in March 2017.