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Anti-cuts 'street party' protest held on Nick Clegg's road

Sat, 26 May 2012 16:44:20 GMT

Hundreds of anti-cuts protesters held an "alternative street party" in the road where Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg lives.

Boy drowns after jumping off Oxford bridge

Sat, 26 May 2012 16:40:13 GMT

A 15-year-old boy has drowned after jumping from a bridge into a river.

Second body found in Indian crocodile river

Sat, 26 May 2012 13:40:58 GMT

The body of the second of two British men who died during a trip on a crocodile-infested river in India has been found.

Man dies in pub shooting

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:03:43 GMT

A man has died and three others wounded after a shooting in a pub, police said.

UK plans for euro-immigrants surge

Sat, 26 May 2012 07:35:52 GMT

The Home Office is planning for a possible large increase in immigration from Greece and other European Union nations in response to the crisis in the euro, Theresa May has revealed.

Cameron aide’s cosy chats with News Corp

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Two of David Cameron’s most senior and trusted advisors were having back door text chats with News Corp’s chief lobbyist at the height of the Milly Dowler scandal, it emerged tonight.

How I wooed the lovelorn shepherdess

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Little Bo Peep had a problem and it had nothing to do with misplacing her sheep. The issue is having stepped on a dirty great nail. It is hardly the stuff of nursery rhymes but it did present the chivalrous opportunity to give Emma Gray, the woman dubbed Britain's loneliest shepherdess, a lift from her remote Northumberland farm back down the four miles of juddering, satnav-bewildering forest tracks for a set of jabs at the local doctors.

Hunt comforted adviser, then said: 'Everyone thinks you've got to go'

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Jeremy Hunt told his adviser Adam Smith that his job was safe when they went for a drink – and then hours later urged him to quit, telling him: "Everyone here thinks you have to go."

Osborne adviser leaked budget information to Murdoch's man

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

George Osborne's closest political aide secretly gave News Corp information about the likely contents of the Government's first budget, it was revealed last night.

Sin and the single mother: The history of lone parenthood

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

It all began with an abbreviated birth certificate that carried only the barest details. I had known since childhood that I was born 'out of wedlock', and that my father had deserted my mother as soon as he discovered she was pregnant in November 1950. But it wasn't until I looked up my full birth certificate after my mother's death in 2001 that I discovered I'd been born in a hostel for unmarried mothers.

Lawyers told Hunt to stay out of Sky deal

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The Government was battling to defend itself last night against new evidence detailing its close relationship with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp at the time of the £8bn bid for BSkyB.

Revealed: How Adrian Beecroft made a career out of cutting jobs

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Could the seeds of the ruthless social Darwinism espoused in Adrian Beecroft's controversial report into reforming Britain's employment laws have been sown in the chilly corridors of the Boston Consulting Group?

Andrew Grice: So David Cameron lacks an ideology. Who knew?

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

It was all Angela Merkel's fault. That is, the photo of a jubilant David Cameron holding his arms high during a G8 summit at Camp David as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties.

Salmond urges nationalists to collect a million Yes signatures

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Alex Salmond launched the campaign for Scottish independence yesterday, telling nationalists to collect the signatures of one million Scots to ensure victory in the 2014 referendum.

Consultant's negligence led to death

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

A hospital consultant whose gross negligence led to the death of a mother of two children was "a broken man" yesterday as he was jailed for two years.

Millionaire's daughter jailed for acting as a driver in London riots

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

A millionaire's daughter was jailed for two years yesterday after she acted as the driver for a group of armed looters who pillaged shops and robbed people at knifepoint during last summer's riots.

Rape detective to stand trial

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

A former detective working on Scotland Yard's specialist rape inquiry team is to stand trial accused of faking police records.

Teen makes a hash of home economics

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

A teenager who laced chocolate brownies he made in a home economics lesson with cannabis last week has been expelled after the prank landed him and four other pupils in hospital.

Thousands to head for the coast as dreary May turns Mediterranean

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

It's the perfect weather for the Jubilee bank holiday – unfortunately it's come a week early.

The torch relay: Golden moment or flaming nuisance?

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The Olympic torch received a rapturous reception as it crossed the borders of Wales yesterday, the second home nation to host the relay on its winding way to London and the Olympic Stadium. As crowds lined the streets of Monmouth to see the flame arrive on the seventh day of the 8,000-mile relay, it marked the culmination of a week in which the UK has been touched with a curious – and timely – outbreak of Olympic enthusiasm.

The Portas Plan: £1m to get UK high streets back in black

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Its town centre was set ablaze as rioters went on the rampage last summer, in some of the worst scenes of the riots. Now Croydon's shopping area is one of 12 selected by the retail expert Mary Portas to receive government funding.

Britain's waste: Now it's coming back to haunt us

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Amid the stacks of shipping containers towering over Britain's busiest port, an unusual suspected-crime scene unfolded this week.

Cameron aide's cosy chats with News Corp revealed

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Two of David Cameron’s most senior and trusted advisors were having back door text chats with News Corp’s chief lobbyist at the height of the Milly Dowler scandal, it emerged tonight.

Where most royalists will raise a toast...

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:45:48 GMT

Is Hertfordshire the most patriotic place in the country?

The Clinton charity gala? It was the worst party ever...

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:26 GMT

It was billed as the chance to exchange small-talk with Bill Clinton and rub shoulders with glamorous celebrities. But angry guests who attended a London fundraiser for the former US president are to receive refunds after the hosts admitted that the event, described as the “worst party ever”, was a total shambles.