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PM urges firms to back communities
David Cameron re-stated the aims of his "Big Society" initiative as he challenged businesses to support their communities. The Prime Minister told senior executives from some of Britain's biggest...
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200,000 'help mentally ill parents'
Up to 200,000 young people in the UK are thought to be caring for a parent with severe mental health problems, a report said. Young people are missing out on a normal childhood and have fewer...
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Icy blast for transport operators
Questions are being asked about Britain's ability to cope with sub-zero conditions after much of the transport network shuddered to a halt. Thousands of people were left high and dry after rail...
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Gender pay audits 'to be voluntary'
Businesses will not be required to publish the pay gap between male and female employees, it has been announced. Instead, companies will be expected to reduce the gap by voluntary means, revealed...
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Karzai 'criticised UK armed forces'
Britain's military operations in Afghanistan have been harshly criticised by the country's president Hamid Karzai, local officials and the American commander of Nato troops, according to leaked...
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Questions after World Cup bid fails
Questions are being asked about what went wrong for England after the nation's humiliating defeat in the bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Despite investing £15 million and sending big-hitters such as...
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Drunk tank pilot scheme recommended
Drunk tanks and booze buses should be used to take some of the burden of hopelessly intoxicated people off the hands of police, a report has said. Local authorities were urged to take another look at...
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Brown 'showed lack of charisma'
American diplomats in London had formed a damning judgment on Gordon Brown's premiership within a year of his arrival at 10 Downing Street, according to secret documents released by whistleblowing...
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Call for child poverty 'indicators'
The race to succeed in life is over for many children in the UK by the day they first arrive in primary school, a report has warned. By the age of just five, "huge class differences" already exist...
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Debit card 'more popular than cash'
Debit cards have overtaken cash to become the UK's most popular payment method for the first time, figures show. On August 30 the amount of money people had spent on debit cards since the beginning of...
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Rail firms warned amid cold snap
Under-fire Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has warned train companies to keep stranded passengers better informed but said transport problems were inevitable as a blanket of snow and ice covers...
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Lockerbie bomber 'sues for neglect'
The family of the Lockerbie bomber is to sue over his "neglect" in a Scottish jail, Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has said. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was freed from Greenock prison on compassionate...
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Some children failing 'by age five'
The race to succeed in life is over for many children in the UK by the day they first arrive in primary school, a report has warned. By the age of just five, "huge class differences" already exist...
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Media 'killed 2018 World Cup bid'
The head of England's failed campaign to host the 2018 World Cup has said that Fifa delegates believe the British media "killed" the bid. Speaking at a press conference at the bid team's headquarters...
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Weather alert as OAPs found dead
A pensioner is feared to have collapsed in her garden and frozen to death, police have said. Officers discovered the body of Lillian Jenkinson, 80, in her back garden in Workington, Cumbria, at...
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Drivers warned as ice takes hold
Drivers in weather-affected areas are being warned by police to only travel if "absolutely essential" after further heavy snowfall and as ice takes hold in freezing conditions. Severe weather warning...
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Colonel condemns Afghanistan leaks
A former British commander has condemned WikiLeaks for revealing US cables containing concerns about British forces not being "up to the task" in Helmand province in Afghanistan. Colonel Stuart...
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Hammond plays down rail firm fines
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has played down the possibility that rail companies could be punished with fines for their performance during the cold spell. Mr Hammond said the focus needed to be...
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Phil Woolas loses seat legal battle
Former Labour MP Phil Woolas has lost his High Court bid to overturn a decision stripping him of his Commons seat. A specially convened election court declared void the general election result in...
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Infrastructure often foreign owned
More than a third of the UK's infrastructure - including energy, water and transport - is under foreign ownership, the competition watchdog has said. But the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said foreign...
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