30 April 2013 Last updated at 10:23 GMT By Dominic Casciani Home affairs correspondent The EDL rally finished early because of a lack of speakers The guilty pleas, at Woolwich [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 04:40 Birdsong and beckoning branches welcome you to a world studded with delicate flowers and home to a wealth of wildlife – far from the wicked woods of fairytales. The Tree Council’s [...]

The number of legal disputes between parents living in different countries, where a British judge has had to step in, has more than doubled in two years. Last year the Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales dealt with more [...]

The first major exhibition of the life and work of author Enid Blyton is to open in Newcastle 45 years after her death. Blyton was one of Britain’s most popular and prolific authors. She wrote more than 700 books which have sold more [...]

For 60 years, mysterious coded letters from a British prisoner of war have refused to give up their secrets. Relatives of imprisoned naval officer John Pryor were unable to discover the hidden messages in the dozens of letters he sent back to [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 06:27 GMT A fire broke out in a five-storey block of flats in south London. The blaze started in a communal area of the building on the Peabody Estate on Southwark Street, Southwark at about 21:40 BST [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 05:00 GMT By Simon Hall BBC South West Home Affairs Correspondent The biggest margin on a project is accommodation for services’ [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 07:22 GMT Firefighters at the scene six hours after the blaze broke out About 50 firefighters have been tackling a serious shop fire in Blackwood, Caerphilly county. South Wales Fire and Rescue say [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 05:55 GMT Areas with a decrease in funding help are Dyfed, Powys, Cwm Taf and Gwent Money to help drug users in parts of rural Wales is being cut by up to a third in a new Welsh government funding [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 05:19 GMT Charlie Strain was found dead in his flat Police have reopened an investigation into the murder of Charlie Strain, a shift worker found beaten in his flat in Carrickfergus in June 1998. Mr [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 05:21 GMT By Kevin Magee BBC News Some events at the City of Culture programme in Derry may have to be cut back Some events at the UK City [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 07:16 GMT The ‘nudge unit’ uses behavioural science to influence government policies A government unit aimed at “nudging” people into making better life choices is to become [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 03:43 GMT Mr Stimson went missing from his yacht in the Pacific Ocean Rescue crews have ended their search for a British sailor who went missing after falling from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean. Luke [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 07:19 GMT The climate in Greenland is extremely harsh – more than 80% of the island is covered by an ice cap A British man has died during a trek across Greenland’s ice sheet, the Foreign [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 07:21 GMT British soldiers are due to pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 Three British soldiers have died in Afghanistan after their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Helmand, the Ministry [...]

04/30/2013 | 12:27pm Opinion : Bullish above 1.5391 USDTarget price : 1.5695 USD The difference in outlook between the U.S. and British economies tightened after the release of growth [...]

The highlight of the first day of the visit was a formal state banquet at Windsor Castle. Earlier the President was visited at his private residence at Richmond, just west of London, by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. Shaikh Khalifa and the [...]

Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. has never boxed outside of the United States as a professional and has not fought outside of Las Vegas since a 2005 fight against Sharmba Mitchell, which took place in Portland, Ore. That’s eight consecutive [...]

Best B.C. election photos En route to May 14, life is an endless photo op for B.C.’s political leaders. more » B.C. election: What’s happening today Photos: Christy Clark and Adrian Dix on the campaign trail via Twitter and [...]

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1 May 2013 Last updated at 02:01 GMT By Andrew Woodger BBC News Online The Harwich Mayflower Project’s planned replica is expected to cost £2.5m A charity aims to put [...]

For the last 14 years, Kevin Crowe and Simon Long have been running what is claimed to be Britain’s most remote bookshop, in the Scottish Highlands. Crowe and Long – who were the first gay couple to have a civil partnership in the [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 02:34 GMT By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Children bullied at school are more likely to make jokes at their own expense Children [...]

The number of convictions for animal neglect and cruelty in cases brought by the RSPCA rose by a third in England and Wales in 2012, says a report by the charity. The annual prosecutions report shows offences rose from 3,114 in 2011 to 4,168 [...]

Three peregrine falcon chicks have successfully hatched on the ledge of a city centre building belonging to Nottingham Trent University. Experts had been concerned about the effect of the cold weather on the eggs. The parent birds, now feeding [...]

A manhunt is under way for two men who escaped from a prison van after an ambush in Salford. Stevie McMullen, 31, and Ryan MacDonald, 20, were freed in Salford by three men, one thought to be armed, while on their way to Manchester Crown [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:52 GMT The first class stamps show moments and places from Livingstone’s life The 200th anniversary of the birth of pioneering Scottish explorer Dr David Livingstone has been marked with [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:58 GMT The organisations are eager to see all walkers and climbers having basic knowledge of the risk Twelve mountaineering organisations from across the UK are working together on making sure [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 01:03 GMT There are now more than a million stroke survivors in the UK The emotional impact of a stroke is too often overlooked and should be given the same priority as physical rehabilitation, campaigners [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:05 GMT The Bank of Ireland says customers were warned about possible increases Thousands of borrowers are set to make official complaints about a sudden increase in their mortgage rates, which [...]