MPs quiz Fox on adviser controversy
Defence Secretary Liam Fox faces a grilling by MPs over whether he has breached ministerial guidelines as more claims surfaced about his working relationship with a former flatmate. Prime Minister...
View ArticleNew problems as rugby team returns
The England rugby players and team management will begin to arrive back in the UK amid further off-field problems. Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi was detained by Auckland police after jumping from a...
View ArticleYeates murder trial set to begin
The prosecution case against a neighbour accused of murdering landscape architect Joanna Yeates is due to begin. Vincent Tabak, 33, denies the premeditated killing of Miss Yeates, whose body was found...
View ArticleDozens held after fatal Egypt riots
Dozens of "instigators of chaos" have been arrested after deadly clashes between angry Christians, Muslims and security forces in which 24 people were killed and at least 200 others injured, Egypt's...
View ArticleMPs query banks' cash machine curbs
Two of Britain's largest banks have been told by MPs to justify their restrictions on basic account customers using rivals' cash machines. The influential Treasury Select Committee has written to the...
View ArticleUnions hold biggest strike ballot
More than a million public sector workers are to vote on strikes from next week in the biggest-ever union industrial action ballot. Unison said probation officers, nurses, social workers, teaching...
View ArticleCairo hit by more street violence
Clashes between Christian protesters and Egyptian security forces have flared again in Cairo, with hundreds pelting police with rocks. At least 24 people were killed when Christians, angered by a...
View ArticleYeates jury told of 'bored' text
A neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then sent a text to his girlfriend saying he was bored, a court has heard. In the days after killing the blonde landscape architect, Vincent Tabak attended parties...
View ArticleChef jailed over bomb hoax call
A chef who made a hoax phone call claiming his estranged wife was about to board a transatlantic flight with a bomb has been jailed for 12 months. Kevin Flynn, 31, told police that the device was...
View ArticleCameron: Fox gave 'good account'
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who is at the centre of a storm of allegations relating to his links with close friend Adam Werritty. Mr Cameron, who spoke to the...
View ArticleChild cruelty couple get five years
A couple said to have swapped the identity of their dead baby daughter to her twin sister in a bid to cover injuries they inflicted have been jailed for five years. The seven-month-old was rushed to...
View ArticleMan 'shopped after killing Joanna'
A neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then went shopping in Asda with her murdered body in his car boot, a court has been told. Vincent Tabak texted his girlfriend to say he was bored just minutes after...
View ArticleForced marriage could become crime
Forcing someone to marry against their will could become a criminal offence under plans set out by Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron announced he was making it a criminal offence to breach an...
View ArticleFox discloses Werritty meetings
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has disclosed that he had met his friend and former flatmate Adam Werritty during around 18 overseas visits. In a Commons statement, Dr Fox also disclosed that Mr Werritty...
View ArticleComplaints over McCartney party
It must have been a hard day's night for Sir Paul McCartney's neighbours after they complained about the noise in the early hours at his wedding party. The party at Sir Paul's home in St John's Wood,...
View ArticleWoman killed 'with butcher's knife
A woman has been stabbed to death in a busy shopping street after a knife was stolen from a local butcher's shop. Another woman was slashed on the hand in the attack while a third has been arrested,...
View ArticleJoanna killer 'shopped after death'
A killer neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then went shopping in Asda with her body in the boot, a court has heard. Vincent Tabak texted his girlfriend to say he was bored just minutes after murdering...
View ArticleLargest ever strike ballot launched
The biggest-ever union strike ballot has been launched, with more than a million public sector workers being urged to back industrial action in an increasingly bitter row with the Government over...
View ArticleMystery BlackBerry fault probed
Phone maker BlackBerry is investigating a problem which has affected users in Britain, elsewhere in Europe, across the Middle East and in Africa. Blackberry developer Research in Motion gave few...
View ArticleFox offers apology in meetings row
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has apologised to the House of Commons for "blurring" the lines between ministerial work and his personal life after a report found he met a close friend a total of 40 times...
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