23 February 2013 Last updated at 16:28 GMT A British man has died in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the Foreign Office has confirmed. Local police said a 50-year-old man had drowned while he was swimming off the Red Sea [...]

23 February 2013 Last updated at 15:57 GMT Mr Millan served as an MP in Glasgow for 29 years Former Scottish Secretary and European Commissioner Bruce Millan has died at the age of 85. Mr Millan’s family paid tribute to [...]

23 February 2013 Last updated at 13:17 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Mr Osborne said he would not abandon the UK’s [...]

Paris headquartered – Webhelp Group has acquired Hero Group’s UK subsidiary – HEROtsc. The acquisition forms part of Webhelp’s international expansion strategy and is its first in the United Kingdom, while [...]

Neonicotinoids should no longer be used on crops which attract bees and other pollinating insects, the RSPB says, in a call for the Government to support a proposed EU ban on the three most common neonicotinoid substances. The intervention of [...]

Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 19th February 2013 Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski Dense Morning Fog Quite a cold start to the morning with a widespread Frost. Also look out for some locally dense fog patches across central, southern parts of [...]

RWE npower, one of the big six power suppliers, has warned ministers not to seal a long-term subsidy deal with the nuclear industry behind the backs of consumers and saddle them with “unnecessarily high bills” for the next 40 years. The [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 06:54 GMT Figures showing that three quarters of net new jobs went to people born outside of Britain since 1997 are covered on the front page of the Times. But the paper reports a “huge [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 05:20 GMT By Mark Savage BBC News entertainment reporter This year’s awards were designed by Damien Hirst The Brit awards have honoured [...]

Tottenham Hotspur fans have been attacked in a bar in the French city of Lyon on the eve of their side’s Europa League tie. Three supporters were taken to hospital after a group of men wearing balaclavas smashed the pub’s windows. [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 07:03 GMT Auditor general Huw Vaughan Thomas says the public sector could save £23m The public sector in Wales cannot prove it is getting value for money from the £133m it spends on external [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 06:58 GMT Ammanford police station could end up costing in excess of £20m The firm which built a Carmarthenshire police station has denied blame for the failure of talks to renegotiate an estimated [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 06:17 GMT Elderly people in NI are given drugs such as tranquilisers, sedatives and anti-dementia drugs at a much higher rate in care homes, a study has found. The study was carried out by [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 06:14 GMT James Fenton was found 40 metres from the hospital Twelve police officers have been disciplined for their handling of the disappearance of a 22-year-old man from the Ulster Hospital [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 03:26 GMT 35% of all adults given a community sentence in England and Wales reoffend within a year More than three-quarters of criminals sent to prison in England and Wales last year had at [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 00:00 GMT MSPs want to hear from victims of crime The public is being asked to comment on Scottish government plans to make criminals pay to support their victims. Members of two Holyrood committees [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 00:01 GMT By Andrew Black Political reporter, BBC Scotland The Scottish government said waiting times were among their lowest levels Concerns [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 00:04 GMT A small number of sales were experienced during the festive period Scotland’s housing market remains “muted”, with only a slight rise in prices over the last year, [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 04:10 GMT There are 14 privately-run prisons in England and Wales Private companies are better at running prisons than the public sector, a study by a centre-right think tank says. Reform said [...]

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21 February 2013 Last updated at 03:43 GMT ITV first broadcast details of the abuse by Jimmy Savile last October ITV’s expose of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal has been named “scoop of the year” at the Royal [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 04:52 GMT The RAF’s C-17 transporter plane can be used for combat, peacekeeping or humanitarian missions David Cameron has said the government is to consider spending money from the UK’s [...]

LONDON (AP) — A British jury was dismissed Wednesday after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of a former U.K. cabinet minister who resigned after lying for years about a speeding ticket. Pryce had pleaded [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 02:17 GMT Operation Nightingale is looking into unsolved cases between 1970 and 2007 Investigations into eight unidentified bodies across the Thames Valley have generated inquiries across Europe, [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 01:26 GMT A woman brought to London to work as a nanny and domestic worker was beaten, raped and threatened at knifepoint, Croydon Crown Court heard. The mother-of-four, 39, from Hyderabad, India, [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 00:01 GMT The Bank of England would play an important role in negotiations Scotland should be ready to adopt an independent currency if the country votes in favour of leaving the UK, a leading [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 00:14 GMT Royal Mail commissioned the artwork from illustrator Angela Barrett A set of Jane Austen stamps have gone on sale to mark the 200th anniversary of her novel Pride And Prejudice. Letters [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 02:43 GMT Boris Johnson called the Lib Dems “wobbling jellies of indecision” Boris Johnson joined the Eastleigh by-election battle, declaring “it is a Conservative’s constitutional [...]

21 February 2013 Last updated at 02:28 GMT Reports that Tottenham fans were attacked in a bar in the French city of Lyon on the eve of their side’s Europa League tie are being investigated by the Foreign Office. Three fans [...]

by Matthew Harper DM by Bobby Williams “It’s 100 degrees below zero, I’ve listened to the same CD 15 times in a row, and everyone else is asleep,” you say to yourself, looking out your window at the frozen wasteland around you. You’re [...]