12PM NEWS UPDATE

Breaking News from the “Germanwings plane crash investigation” and reports indicate one of the pilots may have been locked out of the cockpit, before it crashed into the French Alps. Officials are getting voice recordings from the plane’s flight recorder and have revealed the pilot was heard banging on the door.
An elderly man who went missing from Maitland Hospital on Monday has been found alive. 86-year-old Herbert “Nobby” Bartlett was found next to a swamp about a kilometre from the hospital.
The one punch killer of Sydney teen Thomas Kelly, Kieran Loveridge, is being investigated over an alleged “improper relationship” with a female prison guard at Kempsey gaol.
The BBC has stood down Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson following an unprovoked attack on a Producer, now British Police have stepped in to investigate the incident.