The taxpayer faces a multimillion-pound bill to give the evil mother of Baby P a new identity when she leaves prison. Amid the widespread public revulsion at the case, lawyers will use human rights legislation to claim that the 27-year-old's life is at risk.
Parts of Britain will be colder than Moscow this weekend as the country prepares for an Arctic blast of blizzard conditions and freezing temperatures.
The BBC executive who could have stopped the Radio 2 broadcast of obscene phone calls by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand judged them 'very funny', it was revealed yesterday.
Soaring numbers of buy-to-let investors have not paid a penny of their mortgage and face losing their property, official figures revealed today.
The worst economic meltdown since the First World War has triggered a nightmare for the army of people with one of Britain's 1.1million buy-to-let loans.
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Election fever was sweeping Westminster amid persistent rumours that Gordon Brown is gearing up for a snap poll.
Banking giant Citigroup could collapse under a wave of sub-prime losses totalling £13.3billion, financial experts warned today.
A girl of 13 who drank up to 50 energy drinks a week has been warned to beat her addiction or risk a heart attack. Naomi Haynes had always liked the buzz she got from the caffeine-laced drinks.
A 10-year-old boy has been told he can cycle to school - but only if his mother drives behind him and takes his bicycle home with her.
It was a cloudless night and the police helicopter was carrying out surveillance over Birmingham when the attention suddenly switched from ground to sky.
The Foreign Office was today investigating reports that a British man suspected of masterminding the 2006 airline bomb plot has been killed in a US missile attack in Pakistan.
A teacher at a top prep school has been exposed as having worked for the BNP. Emma-Louise Chamberlain has been at Dulwich College Preparatory School for two years.
Those determined to look on the bright side in these tough times might care to avert their eyes.
A man dumped his 84-year-old mother at council offices after claiming social services had failed to help him care for her.
A drunk businesswoman who killed a young couple while speeding 'grotesquely' at 113mph in a £50,000 Jaguar on her way home from the races has been jailed for nine years.
A yob who left a 15-year-old boy scarred for life after he battered him to the ground with a single punch has been sentenced to one year's detention. Danny Hawkins, 16, boasted about how 'hard' he was on the social network site Bebo before attacking Jordan Hawkins at a party. The thug felled him with a single punch. Jordan, who is no relation, fell backwards and hit his head on the ground. ...read
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