Electoral Commission To Probe Police Vote

Low Turnout For Police Commissioner Polls Updated: 7:33pm UK, Friday 16 November 2012 Dire turnouts have threatened to undermine the first ever police and crime commissioner elections, with as few as 10% of voters casting their ballots in some areas....

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Egypt School Bus Crash Leaves Dozens Dead

Fifty people have been killed after a train collided with a bus in a city south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. A senior security official in Assiut, near the crash site, said 48 of the dead were children, aged between four and eight years. One woman...

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Abortion: India Puts Ireland Under Pressure

The Indian government has contacted the Irish government over the death of a woman who was allegedly refused an abortion. New Delhi has demanded a "transparent" probe into the death of Savita Halappanavar after doctors in Ireland apparently rejected...

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Gaza Pounded As Rockets Hit Israeli City

Gaza Attack: Cock-Up Or Conspiracy? Updated: 8:45pm UK, Friday 16 November 2012 By Sam Kiley, Middle East Correspondent Why would Hamas fire a rocket towards Jerusalem? The first explanation to be dealt derives from the cock-up theory of world...

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Demoted Christian Wins Facebook Post Ruling

A Christian man demoted for posting his opposition to gay marriage on Facebook has won his breach of contract action against his employers. Adrian Smith lost his managerial position, had his salary cut by 40%, and was given a final written warning by...

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Ikea 'Regrets' Using Forced Prison Labour

Ikea "deeply regrets" use of forced prison labour by suppliers in communist East Germany. The Swedish furniture giant commissioned a report by accountants Ernst & Young amid claims political prisoners in East Germany worked on products in the 1960s...

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Gaza Conflict: Rocket Fired At Tel Aviv

A Palestinian rocket has targeted Israel's largest city Tel Aviv on the third day of an Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "We believe it landed off the shores of Tel Aviv". No injuries were reported....

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Dave Lee Travis Arrest: DJ Denies Wrongdoing

DJ Dave Lee Travis has denied any wrongdoing after being arrested by police investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims. Speaking outside his home near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, he protested his innocence and said he did not want his name...

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BP Close To Gulf Oil Spill Compensation Deal

British oil giant BP is in advanced discussions about settling criminal and other claims stemming from the Gulf of Mexico well blowout two years ago. In a statement on Thursday BP said "no final agreement has yet been reached" and that any deal would...

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Savile Cops Arrest Man For Sex Offences

A man in his 60s and from Bedfordshire is being held by police investigating the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal. He was arrested at 7.45am on suspicion of sexual offences and is being questioned. A police spokesman said the allegations made...

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ITV And Newsnight Investigated By Ofcom

Ofcom's Letter To MP Rob Wilson Updated: 12:23pm UK, Thursday 15 November 2012 Here is media watchdog Ofcom's full letter to MP Rob Wilson, who complained about Newsnight and ITV. 15 November 2012 Dear Mr Wilson, Newsnight, BBC2, 2 November 2012...

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Railway Guard Jailed Over Teen's Death

Railway guard Christopher McGee has been jailed for five years over the death of teenager Georgia Varley. The 45-year-old was convicted of the manslaughter of the drunk teenager after he signalled for a train to move as she was leaning against the carriage....

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Anti-Austerity Strikes: Protests Grip Europe

A wave of anti-austerity anger is sweeping across Europe with general strikes in Spain and Portugal and walkouts in Greece and Italy - grounding flights, closing schools and shutting down transport. Millions of workers are taking part in the dozens...

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Taser Death: Police Branded 'Thuggish'

Police who tackled and tasered a Brazilian student on LSD could face further action after a damning report on the man's death. An Australian coroner said officers acted like schoolboys in "Lord of the Flies" when they crash-tackled Roberto Laudisio...

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Woman 'Refused' Abortion In Ireland Dies

By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent Investigations have been launched after a pregnant woman died in hospital in Ireland after allegedly being refused an abortion. Savita Halappanavar, 31, suffered a miscarriage and septicaemia. Her husband...

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Baby Died After 'Serious Failures' At Hospital

By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent A baby died of heart failure at Birmingham Children's Hospital after "serious failures", a coroner has ruled. Hayley Fullerton suffered heart failure following corrective surgery in November 2009, one month...

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Workers To Be Able To Ask For Flexible Hours

By Gerard Tubb, Sky Correspondent New mothers will be able to share leave with their partners and all workers will have the right to flexible hours under radical reforms. Changes to be announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will mean mothers...

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Petraeus' Successor John Allen In Email Probe

Petraeus Affair Scandal: Timeline Updated: 9:33am UK, Tuesday 13 November 2012 The end of General David Petraeus' career has raised several questions about when the affair began and who knew about it. Here is a timeline of events according to officials...

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Margaret Moran Found To Have Fiddled Expenses

A former Labour MP has been found to have fiddled £53,000 in expenses in the worst case to have emerged from the parliamentary scandal. A jury decided Margaret Moran did commit 15 counts of false accounting and six counts of using a false instrument....

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Abu Qatada Freed After Winning Appeal

Timeline: Qatada Legal Battle Updated: 3:36pm UK, Monday 12 November 2012 Abu Qatada has challenged and ultimately thwarted every attempt by the Government to detain and deport him since 2001. Here is a timeline of the legal battle. 1993: Abu Qatada...

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Amelia Arnold Search: Police Find A Body

Police looking for Amelia Arnold have found a body they believe to be that of the missing teenager. The discovery comes after searches took place in a wooded area of Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Formal identification and post-mortem tests are yet to...

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Charles And Camilla 'Attack Plan': NZ Man Held

By Paul Harrison, Royal Correspondent Police in New Zealand have arrested a man on suspicion of planning to attack the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, according to reports. The man, in his 70s, had been spotted on CCTV carrying an...

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BBC Boss: We're Working To Rebuild Trust

Names In Line For BBC Top Job Updated: 12:00pm UK, Monday 12 November 2012 A number of high-profile candidates could be in line to become the BBC's next director-general. :: Acting director-general Tim Davie is used to difficult situations. In his...

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Abu Qatada Wins Appeal Against Extradition

Abu Qatada could be freed after winning his latest appeal against extradition, in a major blow to Home Secretary Theresa May. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) decided the radical cleric could not have a fair trial in Jordan because...

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Israel Fires 'Warning Shots' Into Syria

Israel says its forces have fired "warning shots" into Syria after stray mortar fire from fighting in the civil war-hit nation struck the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It was the first time Israel has been drawn into the fighting in the neighbouring...

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Missing Girl: Man Hands Himself In To Police

A 22-year-old man wanted in connection with the suspected murder of a teenager has handed himself in to police. Hertfordshire Police said Jack Wall had been arrested by officers investigating the disappearance of Amelia Arnold, who was last seen on...

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Remembrance Sunday: Tributes To The Fallen

Two minutes' silence have been held to remember those who have fallen in battle. Marked by the first stroke of Big Ben at 11am and the firing of a gun from Horse Guards Parade by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery the silence was followed by The...

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Lord Patten: BBC Needs To 'Get A Grip'

BBC's Reputation Is In Crisis Updated: 7:52am UK, Sunday 11 November 2012 By Katie Stallard, Media Correspondent The BBC has been through crises before, but nothing that has shaken trust quite like this. According to a ComRes poll carried out...

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