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UK ship sunk by U-boat discovered
Marine explorers have found the site of a British cargo ship sunk by a German U-boat during the Second World War. The SS Gairsoppa was carrying seven million ounces of silver, worth £132 million at...
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'Unprecedented' cuts threat to NHS
The NHS is facing an "unprecedented financial challenge" that may force cuts to services and numbers of hospital beds, the head of an organisation representing health service organisations has said....
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Hugh Grant joins media reforms push
Labour leader Ed Miliband will work with Hollywood star Hugh Grant on media reforms in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. The actor, who has become a champion for the Hacked Off campaign that is...
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Miliband targets 'asset strippers'
Bad businesses and bad neighbours are to be targeted by Labour leader Ed Miliband in his keynote speech to the party's conference in Liverpool. Mr Miliband will say that councils should give priority...
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Terraced homes 'saw largest gains'
Terraced houses increased in value by more than any other type of home over the past decade after buyers were priced out of the top end of the market, according to new research. The average price of a...
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World goes into 'ecological debt'
The world has gone into "ecological debt", having used up more resources and produced more waste this year than the planet can cope with, campaigners have warned. Humans have exhausted nature's...
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Libya 'will aid' Lockerbie probe
Libyan authorities have said they will co-operate with Scottish prosecutors and police investigating the Lockerbie bombing, the Foreign Office said. The National Transitional Council (NTC) has...
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Tories overtake Labour in new poll
Labour has fallen behind the Conservatives in an opinion poll published on the eve of Ed Miliband's high-profile speech to the party's annual conference in Liverpool. And, in news which will make...
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UN sets date to consider Abbas bid
The United Nations Security Council is to meet to start the process of formally considering the Palestinian request for membership in the world body. Lebanese ambassador Nawaf Salam, who holds this...
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Riot case sentences 'excessive'
Two men jailed for four years for setting up Facebook pages inciting others to riot have challenged their "manifestly excessive" custodial terms. Lawyers for Jordan Blackshaw, 20, of Northwich, and...
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Integrity of media 'not for sale'
Media organisations should consider barring from the trade journalists guilty of "gross malpractice", the Labour conference has been told. The party would also produce stricter rules on media...
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Call over 'futile' cancer treatment
Dying cancer patients should be spared "futile" and expensive treatment which can offer "false hope" in the last weeks of life, experts have said. Warning of a tendency to "overdiagnose, overtreat,...
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Struck-off nurses 'still on wards'
British hospital wards could face a "ghastly national disaster" because of the growing number of unregulated healthcare assistants, the Nursing and Midwifery Council said. Dickon Weir-Hughes, chief...
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Death blaze 'caused by freezer'
A house fire which killed five children and their mother is believed to have been caused by a freezer, the fire service has said. Muna Elmufatish, 41, daughters Hanin Kua, 14, Basma, 13, Amal, nine,...
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Killer Knox 'a cuddly cartoon girl'
Convicted killer Amanda Knox is actually a loving young woman rather like the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, a defence lawyer has claimed. Just a day after another lawyer told her appeal hearing in...
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BAE confirms 3,000 jobs to be cut
Defence giant BAE Systems has confirmed that it is cutting almost 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military aircraft division. The firm ended days of speculation by giving details...
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Top sitcom writer David Croft dies
David Croft, who wrote hit sitcoms including Dad's Army and Are You Being Served?, has died aged 89. His agent Tim Hancock said he died at his holiday home in Portugal. Among his other hit shows were...
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'Dark day' as BAE axes 3,000 jobs
Defence giant BAE Systems has confirmed that almost 3,000 posts are to be axed on a "dark day" for British manufacturing. Sites across the country will suffer cutbacks, while the firm signalled the...
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Miliband makes 'new bargain' pledge
Labour will offer a "new bargain" to the people of Britain to end the "fast buck" culture of the last 30 years and reshape society so that hard work and responsibility are rewarded, the party's leader...
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Travellers protest at council HQ
Two people have scaled the front of council offices to protest at the planned clearance of the UK's largest illegal travellers' site. The pair climbed above the doorway of Basildon Council's Basildon...
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