Financial journalist Anil Bhoyrul, one of the UK Daily Mirror reporters involved in a share-tipping scandal from which he made £15,000 (€22,000), was today sentenced to a 180-hour community punishment. His colleague, James Hipwell, was told he faces jail.

Mr Justice Beatson, sitting at St Alban's Crown Court, delayed Hipwell's sentence due to ill health, but said that he "concluded that the offence which you committed is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified".