1 May 2013 Last updated at 00:22 GMT More than 2,300 seats are being contested Party leaders will make a final push for votes on Wednesday in the last day of campaigning for council elections in England and Wales. Voters go [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 02:32 GMT By Katherine Sellgren BBC News education reporter Data shows 3.8 million households in England were living in the private rented sector [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 02:06 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 01:17 GMT A debate over assisted suicide is to be held in London on Wednesday The majority of British people who follow a religious faith support the law being changed to allow assisted suicide, research [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 01:12 GMT The biggest number of cases in 2012 involved European countries, the report said The number of cross-border family legal disputes referred to a UK judge who offers global assistance in such [...]

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 16:37 GMT Priti Patel has been an MP since 2010 The father of a Conservative MP has decided he will still contest a council election for the UK Independence Party – an hour after deciding [...]

Mark Cavendish will go head-to-head with ex-employer Team Sky after being named as Quick-Step leader in the Giro d’Italia, which starts on Saturday. The sprinter, winner of the 2011 Tour de France green jersey, joined the Belgian [...]

Judd Trump came from 8-3 down against Shaun Murphy to level their World Championship quarter-final at 8-8 after Tuesday’s opening two sessions. The 23-year-old from Bristol, who won the UK Championship in 2011, took the final [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 17:35 GMT Kathleen Annals has applied to the council to have the street light moved A woman paid to have her driveway paved days after the council put a lamp-post directly at the end of it. Kathleen [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 14:39 GMT The Chapelton of Elsick development would be based in the Newtonhill area Outline planning permission has been granted for a major new town development in Aberdeenshire. Developers said [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 20:55 GMT A driver who killed a mother-of-five after he hit her bike while she was cycling to work has apologised to her family at an inquest. Michael Lundstram, 29, of Llandudno, Conwy, fled the [...]

Coach Rob Howley says Wales deserves to have the largest contingent in the 2013 British and Irish Lions tour party. Wales provide 15 of the 37-man squad for the 10-match tour to Australia in the summer, while England provide 10, [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 22:13 GMT The thorny issue of abortion is once more back at the top of the political agenda in Ireland The Irish cabinet has reached agreement on a controversial bill on abortion that will include [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 15:50 GMT The skull has sword wounds and a large number of blows to the head Tests are under way on a skeleton found in an East Sussex town to find out if it could be a casualty of the 1264 Battle [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 21:10 GMT Delia Smith was described as “one of the most influential voices in television cookery” at the Bafta ceremony in London Delia Smith has won a British Academy of Film and Television [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 20:50 GMT Kadian Harding died after his bike was involved in a collision with a van A cyclist killed in a road accident had taken his bicycle for repairs hours before he died because of concerns [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:46 GMT Two police officers were injured after being attacked by a man with a knife in Greater Manchester. The pair were attacked on Stamford Street, Old Trafford, after being called out to deal [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 18:01 GMT By Raymond Buchanan BBC Scotland political correspondent Please turn on JavaScript. Media [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 19:13 GMT Mohammed Saleem walked to the mosque five times a day A grandfather of 22 has been stabbed to death while on his way home from evening prayers at a Birmingham mosque. Mohammed Saleem, [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 20:06 GMT Prosecutors said there was “insufficient evidence” to bring charges over the death of the Red Arrows pilot No charges will be brought over the death of a Red Arrows pilot killed [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 21:07 GMT Jobseekers are encouraged to discuss the feedback from the questionnaire with their advisers A psychometric test designed to help jobseekers identify and utilise their personality strengths [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:04 GMT Vince Cable said public interest in the banking sector had not dissipated Business Secretary Vince Cable has written to the Scottish legal authorities urging a rapid decision on whether [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:41 GMT Mr Stimson went missing from his yacht in the Pacific Ocean A British sailor who went missing after falling from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean has been described as a “remarkable [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 23:50 GMT MPs urged the Foreign Office to highlight the consensual approach to the referendum An independent Scotland would leave the rest of the UK’s international reputation damaged, a committee [...]

WKU BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (4/30/13) – Kelsey Mattingly, a Western Kentucky University senior art history and sociology major from Louisville, has been awarded a highly competitive Fulbright Research/Study [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 15:56 GMT The president was given a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle The president of the United Arab Emirates has been given a lavish welcome as he was greeted by the Queen on the first day [...]

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