Last Updated : Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 03:44 GMT
Families in flood-risk areas have been warned to expect heavy rain for another five days
Last Updated : Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 03:30 GMT
Private detectives hired to find Madeleine McCann are attempting to establish if there is a link with the disappearance of a young Spanish girl
Last Updated : Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 00:54 GMT
Communities across Britain are bracing themselves after warnings of continuing wet weather
Last Updated : Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 14:23 GMT
Families in flood-risk areas have been warned to expect heavy rain for another five days
Last Updated : Monday, 14 January 2008, 08:53 GMT
Flood-hit communities were bracing themselves for more chaos after forecasters predicted yet another deluge
Last Updated : Monday, 14 January 2008, 08:29 GMT
Kate and Gerry McCann expect the police files on the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine to remain secret for another three months, the couple's spokesman says
Last Updated : Sunday, 30 December 2007, 03:29 GMT
The Conservatives will treat 2008 as a year-long election campaign in a bid to restore public trust in the party, leader David Cameron has pledged
Last Updated : Sunday, 30 December 2007, 03:17 GMT
Gordon Brown has promised 'real and serious changes' and vowed to make dealing with the global credit crisis at the top of his priority list for 2008
Last Updated : Friday, 21 December 2007, 02:26 GMT
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Last Updated : Friday, 21 December 2007, 02:13 GMT
Gordon Brown has suffered a fresh blow with a poll suggesting his popularity has hit a new low
Last Updated : Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 02:48 GMT
Police are questioning a 19-year-old man about claims that a woman was raped at a hotel where Manchester United footballers were holding a party
Last Updated : Sunday, 16 December 2007, 03:04 GMT
The parents of Madeleine McCann thanked their supporters as they prepared for 'an incredibly difficult' Christmas
Last Updated : Friday, 14 December 2007, 06:34 GMT
Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife will spend Christmas apart and behind bars after being remanded in custody by magistrates
Last Updated : Friday, 14 December 2007, 01:03 GMT
The private detective being paid by Kate and Gerry McCann to find their daughter has claimed he knows who took Madeleine and that he could have her back with her family before Christmas
Last Updated : Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 13:33 GMT
The 'emotional' wife of the back-from-the-dead canoeist has made a plea to their sons to come and visit her in prison
Last Updated : Monday, 10 December 2007, 16:16 GMT
The wife of the back-from-the-dead canoeist has been charged with two counts of deception, police said
Last Updated : Monday, 10 December 2007, 11:23 GMT
The parents of Madeleine McCann have met the seven friends they dined with on the day their daughter disappeared, their spokesman said
Last Updated : Monday, 10 December 2007, 00:26 GMT
A man who walked into a police station five and a half years after he was feared drowned in a canoeing accident is due to appear in court
Last Updated : Sunday, 9 December 2007, 11:31 GMT
Anne Darwin, the wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin, has been arrested after arriving back in Britain, police said
Last Updated : Saturday, 8 December 2007, 12:02 GMT
Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has been charged with deception by police
Last Updated : Saturday, 8 December 2007, 04:03 GMT
The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has said he was living in their family home for three years after he was declared dead
Last Updated : Friday, 7 December 2007, 00:35 GMT
The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin is on her way back to Britain to face the music and beg her sons' forgiveness after they severed contact with their parents
Last Updated : Thursday, 6 December 2007, 08:30 GMT
The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin is under intense scrutiny as she expressed her disbelief that a picture of the couple from last year had surfaced
Last Updated : Thursday, 6 December 2007, 06:28 GMT
The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin is under intense scrutiny as she expressed her disbelief that a picture of the couple from last year had surfaced
Last Updated : Thursday, 6 December 2007, 06:24 GMT
A man has opened fire with a rifle at a busy department store, killing eight people before taking his own life in an attack that sent Christmas shoppers running and screaming through an Omaha mall....
Last Updated : Thursday, 6 December 2007, 00:33 GMT
The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin is under intense scrutiny as she expressed her disbelief that a picture of the couple from last year had surfaced
Last Updated : Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 14:14 GMT
Police are preparing to question the back-from-the-dead canoeist on suspicion of fraud, following his reappearance five years after he was presumed drowned
Last Updated : Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 08:25 GMT
John Darwin, the man who turned up five years after he was feared drowned, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud
Last Updated : Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 10:54 GMT
Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, has arrived back in Britain
Last Updated : Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 04:12 GMT
Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, has arrived back in Britain
Last Updated : Monday, 3 December 2007, 03:54 GMT
Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, has been given a presidential pardon
Last Updated : Saturday, 1 December 2007, 08:17 GMT
Portuguese police would need the permission of the Home Secretary if they wanted to re-interview Kate and Gerry McCann or their friends on British soil, a police source said
Last Updated : Saturday, 1 December 2007, 03:29 GMT
Portuguese police are reportedly set to make a formal request to re-interview the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann over daughter Madeleine's disappearance
Last Updated : Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 03:42 GMT
The lawyer of Robert Murat, a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has launched another attack on the missing child's parents
Last Updated : Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 00:14 GMT
Gordon Brown is braced for more political damage as the row over Labour's 'proxy' donations rages on
Last Updated : Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 09:44 GMT
Gordon Brown has admitted that more than £600,000 donated to the Labour Party through middlemen had not not been lawfully declared and would be returned
Last Updated : Friday, 23 November 2007, 02:24 GMT
The Government will face fresh questions over the loss of millions of voters' personal data amid evidence the debacle has helped fuel a massive slump in public confidence
Last Updated : Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 06:16 GMT
A fourth suspect in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher has been arrested in Germany
Last Updated : Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 00:50 GMT
A woman who insists she saw Madeleine McCann being carried away has spoken of her guilt at failing to stop the abductor
Last Updated : Monday, 19 November 2007, 02:48 GMT
The mother of Robert Murat has spoken publicly for the first time to deny claims her son could have been involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Last Updated : Sunday, 18 November 2007, 12:30 GMT
Speculation is intensifying that Italian police may soon arrest a fourth suspect in the case of murdered British student Meredith Kercher
Last Updated : Sunday, 18 November 2007, 12:13 GMT
The search for bodies at the former home of the man charged with murdering Vicky Hamilton has moved inside the house after police announced they had completed searching the back garden
Last Updated : Sunday, 18 November 2007, 11:46 GMT
Gerry McCann has spoken of his belief that 'a predator' was watching his family in the days before his daughter Madeleine's disappearance
Last Updated : Saturday, 17 November 2007, 12:27 GMT
Detailed searches of the former home of the man charged with murdering Vicky Hamilton have concluded for another day
Last Updated : Saturday, 17 November 2007, 12:17 GMT
A family of seven who perished in a house fire died from smoke inhalation, police have said
Last Updated : Friday, 16 November 2007, 16:47 GMT
A close friend of the McCann family has spoken for the first time of how she is convinced she saw Madeleine being carried away by her abductor
Last Updated : Friday, 16 November 2007, 16:08 GMT
A second body found at the former home of the man charged with murdering schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton is believed to be that of missing teenager Dinah McNicol, police said
Last Updated : Thursday, 15 November 2007, 14:30 GMT
The DNA of murdered British student Meredith Kercher and her flatmate Amanda Knox has been found on a knife, it has been reported
Last Updated : Thursday, 15 November 2007, 12:46 GMT
Barry George has won his appeal against his conviction for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando
Last Updated : Thursday, 15 November 2007, 10:56 GMT
The father of a schoolgirl whose body was discovered after going missing 16 years ago has led the prison van carrying the man charged over her disappearance into court
Last Updated : Thursday, 15 November 2007, 05:53 GMT
A leading Labour backbench critic of plans to extend detention without charge for terror suspects said extra safeguards would not be enough to persuade him to back a new 58-day limit
Last Updated : Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 14:11 GMT
Gordon Brown is embroiled in a new row over plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held without charge after his Security Minister said he was not 'fully convinced' the change was justified
Last Updated : Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 14:02 GMT
Northern Ireland's worst house fire tragedy which killed a family of seven has become a murder investigation - with the father the prime suspect
Last Updated : Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 05:29 GMT
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned the UK could he hit by terror attacks 'anywhere and from any place', as he prepared to unveil the results of two major security reviews
Last Updated : Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 05:20 GMT
A couple and their five children are feared dead in one of Northern Ireland's worst ever fire tragedies
Last Updated : Monday, 12 November 2007, 12:31 GMT
Firefighters are dealing with a massive blaze in an industrial area of east London
Last Updated : Monday, 12 November 2007, 04:51 GMT
David Cameron is promising tougher sentences for rapists
Last Updated : Friday, 9 November 2007, 04:58 GMT
Fears of widespread flooding in eastern England have diminished as surging tides peaked without major breaches of defences
Last Updated : Friday, 9 November 2007, 04:45 GMT
An Italian judge has ruled that three people suspected of being involved in the murder of Meredith Kercher must remain in jail
Last Updated : Friday, 9 November 2007, 01:53 GMT
An Italian judge has postponed a ruling on whether three people held over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher should continue to be held in jail