A codeine addict who contaminated packets of Nurofen Plus in a ruse to fund his habit has been jailed for 18 months.

An oil refinery which went bust is to close after administrators failed to find a buyer or the cash needed to keep it going, putting around 850 jobs at risk.

A woman has been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of voicemail hacking.

Visitors to Edinburgh Zoo have taken refuge in one of the park's monkey enclosures as staff dealt with escapee pigs.

A mother and stepfather who forced their 11-year-old son to live in a filthy converted coal bunker have each been jailed for two years.

Tony Blair's evidence to the Leveson Inquiry was interrupted when a protester burst in and yelled "this man should be arrested for war crimes".

A British woman has been arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine worth £1.6 million into the tropical island of Bali.

The two biggest teachers' unions have threatened co-ordinated strikes in the autumn against Government "attacks" on jobs, pensions, workload and pay.

A pregnant woman is in intensive care after she was found with four stab wounds to her neck and upper body.

The Lords Commissioner for Standards is considering whether to investigate allegations over under-pressure Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi's expenses.

Britain and Russia are split on whether Syrian president Bashar al Assad should stand down amid the bloodshed in the country.

An Army officer who was killed by a home-made bomb in Afghanistan packed more into his three decades alive than most people do in a lifetime, his family said.