Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced a £2.7 billion cash injection to help low paid workers hit by the scrapping of the 10p tax rate.

A shock spike in the cost of living during April hit hopes for interest rate cuts as inflation soared at its highest pace for nearly six years.

Travel companies and British officials are continuing to try to contact UK tourists still unaccounted for after the devastating earthquake in China.

The Armed Forces are unable to meet the Government's "readiness" target for mounting further military missions due to the continuing pressure of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has warned.

A man murdered in Oxford Street, Britain's busiest shopping district, was stabbed in a row after a drink was thrown, police said.

The Heathrow airport chief who presided over the Terminal 5 opening debacle is to leave his job, airport operator BAA has said.

The Government's private fears over the dire state of the UK property market have been laid bare.

National school tests should be scrapped as the pressure to meet Government targets has denied children their right to a rounded education, say MPs.

A senior police officer has launched a scathing attack on the use of the Human Rights Act by murderers and rapists to protect themselves from UK law.

The first planeload of British aid is heading for cyclone-ravaged Burma as International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander joins emergency EU talks on the crisis.

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