Oct
2012
Articles from 8th Oct 2012
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Laterns tribute for missing April
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Poignant tributes have been paid to the memory of missing five-year-old April Jones as Chinese lanterns were released into the night sky. Read
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Two charged in rape identity case
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Two people have been charged with revealing the identity of a woman raped by footballer Ched Evans online, the Crown Prosecution said. Read
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Tories in job-rights-for-shares bid
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Workers are to be given a chance to receive shares in their company in return for giving up some of their employment rights, Chancellor George Osborne has announced. Read
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Gurdon 'honoured' by Nobel award
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A knighted British scientist whose work as a young Phd student set the stage for the future of cloning research has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Read
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Briton stabbed to death in New York
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A 25-year-old British man who was working as a football coach in America has been stabbed to death in New York. Read
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BBC to investigate Savile claims
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
BBC director-general George Entwistle has apologised to victims of Sir Jimmy Savile's alleged sex abuse and pledged the corporation will hold its own inquiry following a police probe. Read
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UK clone scientist wins Nobel Prize
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
British clone pioneer Professor Sir John Gurdon has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine which he shares with a leading Japanese stem cell scientist. Read
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Trust wins brain-damaged man ruling
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A High Court judge has allowed a hospital trust's request to withhold life-saving treatment from a severely brain-damaged Muslim patient if his condition significantly deteriorates. Read
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Licensing chief had nitrogen drink
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A young councillor and licensing chief in a city where a teenager needed an operation to remove her stomach after consuming a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen has said that he has also tried the drink. Read
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Man admits writing on Rothko work
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A man has claimed responsibility for defacing a valuable Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern art gallery, but denied he is a vandal. Read
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Osborne making further welfare cuts
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Chancellor George Osborne is to vow to "finish the job we have started" in eliminating Britain's national deficit, as he confirms plans to slash a further £10 billion from the bill for welfare. Read
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Children 'lack good role models'
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Today's generation of children are still lacking good role models, a poll suggests. Read
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Two quizzed over hit-and-run death
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Detectives are questioning two people over the death of a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run incident involving the police. Read
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Man in court over murder of April
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A former lifeguard accused of abducting and killing five-year-old schoolgirl April Jones is due to appear in court charged with her murder. Read
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Johnson backing 'struggling middle'
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
London Mayor Boris Johnson warned that middle income families were feeling "utterly and understandably ignored", as he prepared to address the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Read
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Briton shares Nobel medicine prize
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
British researchers John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. Read
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Assange backers told to pay £93,500
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Backers who stood as sureties for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before he took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London have been ordered to pay thousands of pounds. Read
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'Urgent' inspection at NHS trust
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
The health watchdog is to carry out an "urgent" inspection into the treatment of breast cancer patients at a debt-ridden NHS trust. Read
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Tories 'are true One Nation party'
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Chancellor George Osborne has sought to seize back the One Nation slogan for the Conservatives, after Labour leader Ed Miliband used it to make an audacious grab for the political centre ground. Read
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Shareholder concern over BAE merger
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
BAE Systems' merger plans have come under more strain after the company's biggest shareholder outlined "significant reservations" about the deal. Read
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Wet summers 'caused by sea warming'
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A recent run of wet summers in the UK could have been caused by substantial warming of the North Atlantic Ocean, according to a new scientific study. Read
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April murder accused weeps in dock
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A former lifeguard wept as he appeared in court accused of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones. Read
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Royal Mail hails cheap stamps offer
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Royal Mail has started publicising a scheme to sell Christmas stamps at last year's prices to people on benefit. Read
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Roads 'should be funded via tolls'
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Proposals for road charging and tolls for motorists on some major English routes have been put forward by the CBI. Read
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MP writes to minister over rail row
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A Commons Select Committee chairman has written to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin over the West Coast rail line franchise fiasco. Read
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Business leaders make growth plea
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Business leaders have called on the Government to concentrate on boosting economic growth rather than tackling the UK's structural deficit. Read
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Chavez wins new term as president
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
President Hugo Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign in which the opposition accused him of unfairly using Venezuela's oil wealth and his near total control of state institutions to his advantage. Read
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Man held over attack on painting
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A man has been arrested on suspicion of vandalising a painting by the artist Mark Rothko, police said. Read
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Carey condemns gay marriage plans
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey appears to have compared anti-gay marriage campaigners to persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany. Read
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Syria and Turkey open fire again
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Turkish troops have returned fire after cross-border shelling from Syria for the sixth day in a row. Read
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George Osborne warns parents on benefits ahead of further cuts to welfare bill
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
George Osborne has warned parents on benefits they must make a "financial decision" about whether to have more children as he confirmed the Government is looking at how much money they receive. Read
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Man charged with two stab murders
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A man has been charged with two counts of murder after two people were found stabbed to death in a block of flats, police have said. Read
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Plan to cut MPs total to be set out
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Revised plans to slash the number of MPs, which could help Tories to an outright Commons majority, will be unveiled next week. Read
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17% of new parents 'boost drinking'
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
Almost a fifth of new parents increase their alcohol intake after the birth of their first child and are putting their babies at risk, according to a children's charity. Read
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BBC boss promises Savile inquiry
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
BBC Director General George Entwistle has said he would like to "apologise on behalf of the organisation" in the wake of the allegations of sexual abuse against former DJ Sir Jimmy Savile. Read
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Cocktail woman's stomach removed
Oct 08 2012 | UK News
A teenage woman needed a life-saving operation to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen. Read
