Jack McConnell to quit as an MSP
Scotland's former first minister, Jack McConnell, is to quit Holyrood at next year's election. The MSP for...
View ArticleMeet the Author: Crime writer Mark Billingham
In the latest in the BBC News Meet The Author...
View ArticleSex shop plan for former Little Chef restaurant
Hundreds of people have attended a protest meeting over plans for a sex shop on the...
View ArticlePakistan floods: Rising water threatens flood defences
Rising water levels are breaching flood defences and threatening hundreds of thousands...
View ArticleGartree prison officer 'wrote messages in blood'
A coroner has recorded a narrative verdict into the death of a prison officer found in a Leicestershire lake. John Healy was discovered near Newton Harcourt in June 2008. The inquest heard the...
View ArticleLocals frustrated as cliff path project remains stalled
Two years ago it was announced that the Gobbins cliff path on...
View ArticleNotting Hill Carnival to audit participants for 2012
Organisers of the Notting Hill Carnival...
View ArticlePenzance skipper fined after 'man overboard' incident
A Penzance fishing boat skipper has been fined following a "man overboard" accident in December last year. Wayne Evans, a 30-year-old deck hand on the Penzance registered Ocean...
View ArticleQuestions over charity fundraising
Professional fundraisers, who try to persuade people to sign up to...
View ArticleDisrupted trains return to normal
Train services across the east of England have returned to normal...
View ArticleFull statement: Jack McConnell
Former first minister Jack McConnell has announced he is to step down as an MSP. Here, in full, is his statement about his decision not to seek re-election. I have tonight told the members of...
View ArticleTravellers move on to Tolkien site 'to see the Pope'
Travellers who have moved on to a site in Hall Green in Birmingham said they were there to see the Pope. Councillor Martin Mullaney said the families had moved on to a field next to Sarehole Mill, a...
View ArticlePhone stolen from baby's pram in Douglas
A mother who was attending to her baby in her car in Douglas had her mobile phone stolen from the child's empty pram parked at...
View ArticleUN calls for urgent action over mass DR Congo rape
The UN has said everything possible must be done to prevent atrocities like the recent rape of more than 150 women and...
View Article'Strangers' fund Lancashire woman's cancer treatment
A 27-year-old woman from Lancashire, who was refused funding for cancer treatment, has had it paid for by...
View ArticleOff sick Newham council worker 'raced for free physio'
An east London council worker has told a court he took part in athletics competitions while off sick from work to get "free physio" at the events. Matthew Thomas, 34, of East Ham, took seven months...
View ArticleBrazil government gives go-ahead for huge Amazon dam
Brazil's government has given the formal go-ahead for the building on a tributary of the Amazon of the world's third biggest hydroelectric dam....
View ArticleWheelchair user gets bank access in Sheffield
A teenage wheelchair user from Sheffield has paid his first cheque into his local bank after a four year battle to get access. David...
View ArticleMI5 spy records released by the National Archives
Glamorous Nazi spies, German invasion plans, a Nobel Prize winner and...
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