English plan for foreigners changed

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

The Home Office has watered down plans to force foreign spouses to learn English before moving to the UK.

Passport strike hits holidaymakers

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

The first day of a strike by passport office workers hit holidaymakers.

Police brand pay offer 'insulting'

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

The Government has been accused of betraying police with an "insulting" pay offer by leaders of rank-and-file officers.

Boy, seven, 'was driving crash car'

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Police are trying to establish whether a seven-year-old boy was driving a car which overturned.

Soldier killed by roadside bomb

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

A British soldier was killed by a suspected roadside bomb after his patrol came under fire in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.

More people without bank accounts

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

The number of people without a bank account has risen despite a Government drive to tackle the problem of financial exclusion, according to figures released by the Treasury.

'Extraordinary' hero's George Cross

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

A Royal Marine receiving the George Cross for throwing himself on a grenade has been hailed as the most "extraordinary hero" by the head of the British armed forces.

Parents call for scrapping of Sats

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Parents feel "totally let down" by this year's national curriculum tests fiasco and want to see them abolished, a parents' group has announced.

Couple jailed for canoe death fraud

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

John and Anne Darwin were each jailed for more than six years for carrying out a "determined, sustained and sophisticated" £250,000 fraud by faking his death in a canoeing accident.

Father charged over quad bike death

9:04pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

The father of a seven-year-old girl who died when the quad bike she was riding was in a head-on crash in a country lane has been charged with manslaughter by gross neglect, lawyers said.

Boy, seven, 'was driving crash car'

Updated 7:52pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Police are trying to establish whether a seven-year-old boy was driving a car which overturned.

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