Man Dies Making Documentary About Homeless

Police are investigating the death of a young documentary maker who was sleeping rough in freezing temperatures to highlight the plight of the homeless. Lee Halpin, 26, had planned to spend a week living on the streets in his home city of Newcastle....

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India: British Woman Murdered In Kashmir

A second man is being questioned after a British woman was found murdered on a houseboat in Indian-administered Kashmir, police have confirmed. The son of the owner of the houseboat where Sarah Groves, 24, had been staying for up to two months is helping...

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Nelson Mandela Leaves Hospital After 10 Days

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital after being treated for pneumonia. The 94-year-old has been allowed to leave hospital this afternoon "following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition"....

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Devon House Fire: Teens Die, Boy In Hospital

Two teenagers have died and a young boy is in a serious condition in hospital following a house fire in Devon. Police said the 17-year-old girl and 18-year-old man died from injuries sustained in the blaze at a property in Lee Close in Honiton. The...

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North Korea Warns Foreign Embassies Of Risks

By Mark Stone, on the South Korea border The Foreign Office says it has no intention of evacuating its embassy in Pyongyang after North Korea warned foreign diplomats they may not be safe if war breaks out. The North Korean government asked foreign...

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Children's Heart Unit Could Reopen Next Week

Children's heart surgery could resume at Leeds General Infirmary as early as next week. Operations were suspended last week because of claims the children's cardiac unit had a death rate double the average. But medical bodies and doctors have questioned...

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HMV Rescue Saves 141 Stores And 2,500 Jobs

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor HMV's future as a high street retailer has been salvaged in a £50m deal that secures 2,500 jobs on Britain's beleaguered high streets. Hilco, a restructuring firm, confirmed on Friday morning that it had struck an...

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Jill Meagher Murder: Accused Changes Plea

A man has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of an Irish woman who was attacked and killed as she walked home from a bar in the Australian city of Melbourne. Adrian Ernest Bayley pleaded guilty to rape and murder of Jill Meagher, 29, last September....

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Nuclear Threat Too Great To Axe Trident - PM

David Cameron has warned against any move to abandon the Trident deterrent in the face of the growing nuclear threat from North Korea and Iran. The Prime Minister said it would be "foolish" to leave the country defenceless at a time when the "highly...

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North Korea Army: 'War Could Break Out Today'

By Mark Stone, in Seoul, South Korea The North Korean military says it has ratified a "merciless" attack against the United States, potentially involving a "cutting-edge" nuclear strike. "The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the army said...

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The Mick Philpott Performance Is Over

Philpotts Jailed Over House Fire Deaths Updated: 1:25pm UK, Thursday 04 April 2013 Mick Philpott has been described in court as "the driving force" behind a fire that killed six of his children, as he was sentenced to life in prison. He was told by...

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Fire Deaths: Philpotts And Friend Jailed

Mick Philpott has been described in court as "the driving force" behind a fire that killed six of his children, as he was sentenced to life in prison. He was told by the trial judge at Nottingham Crown Court that he must serve a minimum of 15 years...

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South Korea Warns Military Action An 'Option'

South Korea's defence minister, Kim Kwan-jin, has said that military action is an "option" to protect its citizens in its stand off with North Korea. The news comes as the United States has said it will "not accept" North Korea as a nuclear state, after...

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Iain Banks Announces He Has 'Months' To Live

Best-selling author Iain Banks has announced he has cancer and only several months to live. In a statement posted on his website, the 59-year-old Scottish novelist revealed he is in the final stages of gall-bladder cancer and is unlikely to live "beyond...

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First Charges In Savile Sex Investigation

A man is to be charged as part of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal - the first charges under Operation Yewtree. Driver David Smith will be charged with five sex offences including two of indecent assault on a boy under 14 in 1984 and two of gross indecency...

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Derby Fire: Philpotts Face Jail Over Deaths

Mick Philpott, who killed six children by setting fire to his home, stabbed a previous girlfriend 13 times, injuring her so badly she still has to take medication, a court has heard. Philpott's criminal record was laid out in front of a judge at Nottingham...

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Brazil: CCTV Catches Police 'Ignoring' Murders

Eight Brazilian police officers have been arrested after security camera footage showed two teenagers being murdered as officers in a police car parked metres away apparently did nothing. The footage, which was shown on Brazilian television, showed...

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Windermere Boat Deaths: Engine Investigated

A faulty boat generator may have been responsible for the deaths of a mother and her daughter from suspected gas poisoning. Kelly Webster, 36, and her daughter Lauren Thornton, 10,  from Leyland in Lancashire, died after eating lunch on the 25ft...

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Benefits: Osborne Defends Welfare Shake-Up

George Osborne has robustly defended the Government's controversial benefits shake-up - insisting Britain can no longer afford to reward people who do the "wrong thing". Speaking at a supermarket distribution centre in Kent, the Chancellor condemned...

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Iain Duncan Smith: Petition Piles On Pressure

Pressure is mounting on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to uphold a claim he made that he could live on just £53 a week in benefits. In an interview about changes to the welfare system, Mr Duncan Smith suggested he could get by on £53...

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Bag-Snatcher Runs Into Glass Door In Getaway

A bag snatcher has been caught on camera knocking himself out after running through a glass door as he tried to make his getaway. The man had just snatched a purse from a 50-year-old woman at a newsagent in Perth, Western Australia, when he unwittingly...

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Guildford Station Murder Probe: Tributes Paid

Tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old man who died when he was hit by a train after a confrontation at a railway station. Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the victim, named locally as Ryan Harrison, suffered fatal injuries...

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Weather: Jet Stream Blamed For UK Cold Snap

As Britain leaves behind what looks to have been the coldest March for more than 50 years, forecasters are warning it will stay cold for another week at least. Meteorologists are blaming the bad weather on the position of the jet stream, a narrow band...

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David Miliband Quits Sunderland Over Di Canio

Sunderland's Hero Or Fascist Zero? Updated: 12:49pm UK, Monday 01 April 2013 By Matt Teale, Sports Presenter So, Paolo Di Canio, not Martin O'Neill, is the man to steer Sunderland to safety, according to the club's owner Ellis Short. The timing...

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Benefits Shake-Up 'To Cost Families Hundreds'

By Tadhg Enright, Sky Reporter Changes to the welfare system will cost the average family £891 over the next year, according to research by Labour and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The Conservatives have responded by saying the biggest shake-up...

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Pope Francis Calls For Korea 'Reconcilliation'

Pope Francis prayed for a "political solution" in Syria and for "reconciliation" on the Korean peninsula in his first Easter Sunday message. Thousands of people packed into St Peter's Square to see the pontiff celebrate his first Easter mass and to...

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Archbishop Welby Says Church Should Be 'Sign'

The Church of England must act as symbol of peace in an increasingly divided world, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said ahead of his first Easter Service. The Most Rev Justin Welby said the Church has to show it can manage disagreement "gracefully"...

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Policewoman Sues Man Who Called 999

A man who dialled 999 fearing a burglary at his petrol station is being sued by the policewoman who answered the call because she fell on the premises. The woman, WPC Kelly Jones, tripped over a kerbstone when she went to the station in Thetford, Norfolk,...

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