Rivers have been polluted and forests destroyed on a shocking scale by illegal gold miners.

Farhats Bathijevs, 55, faces 10 charges after gold bars, cash and drugs were recovered in Dublin.

Gold waste from the Royal Mint has been turned into luxury jewellery.

Gold bullion worth €1.4m, €460,000 in cash and €210,000 in suspected cocaine were seized.

Irish police say a man has been arrested after gold bullion, cocaine and cash are seized in Dublin.

The UK’s coin-maker opens a new industrial plant to extract gold from old circuit boards.

Paul Wood was told it would take six weeks for an officer to visit him after he was a victim of fraud.

A torc and a bracelet, both thought to be 3,000 years old, are still missing after a break-in at a museum.