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The government must provide more money to help Britain's six million unpaid carers, MPs say.
Buy-to-let specialist Bradford & Bingley reports a half-year loss of £26.7m after being hit by the credit crunch.
Hundreds of travellers left stranded by the collapse of budget airline Zoom attempt to continue their journeys.
Officers investigating a fire at the home of a wealthy family, who are all missing, hope to be able to enter the burnt-out building.
Three men questioned over an alleged threat to assassinate Gordon Brown are due to appear in court later.
Measures that would allow councils to intervene in the housing market are likely to be announced next week.
French police question about 100 men after a Canadian journalism student is raped by a man near Calais.
Scottish police had information that could have changed the outcome of the Lockerbie trial, a BBC programme learns.
Europe's first artificial surf reef is being laid on the seabed off the Dorset coast after it was delayed by bad weather.
Internet mapping is demolishing thousands of years of Britain's geography and history, a leading cartographer claims
A sculpture based on Oscar Marzaroli's famous "Gorbals Boys" photograph is to be unveiled in Glasgow.
British number one Andy Murray digs deep to reach round three of the US Open with an erratic four-set win over Michael Llodra.
Holders Man Utd will meet Scottish champions Celtic, Villarreal and Aalborg in the group stages of the Champions League.
Manchester City qualify for the first round of the Uefa Cup thanks to Joe Hart's heroics in the penalty shoot-out against Danish side FC Midtjylland.
As Zoom suspends flights, will other airlines go under?
The simulator that trains soldiers to deal with danger
The retailers' battle over the cost of school uniforms
Luxurious life of missing father Christopher Foster
Stars reveal nerves ahead of Come Dancing contest
What makes people write their journals in shorthand?
Separate health policies across the UK are leading to wide differences for patients, it is claimed.
The first cultural and sporting activities designed to bring benefits from the 2012 Olympics to the whole of the UK are announced.
A new code of practice for garages is launched to guarantee minimum standards of service and protection for customers.
Thousands of London bus drivers go on a 24-hour strike in a row over pay.
The parents of a schoolgirl who died of a heart condition plan to sue her school for failing to tell them she was ill.
A sea rescue takes place in the Bristol Channel after a lifeboat issues a mayday call.
A French chef working in a famous London restaurant is jailed for five years for attempting to rape a woman he met at a club.
We're said to be on the brink of a new Cold War, nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. But will the animosity come back to haunt Western imaginations as it once did?
The UK's towns and cities are designed primarily for men, not women, says a study. So what's the difference?
The man who wrote 100 Things to Do Before You Die has died. Why did his book in 1999 spark a phenomenon?
Tales of economic woe lead several papers on a day when the front pages are something of a mixed bag.
A senior police chief tells an Asian officer and others involved in a row over alleged racial discrimination to "shut up".
The uncle of a student who died after a suspected race hate attack says Arabs should not send children to England.
About 100 passengers who were expecting to fly to Canada are stranded at Belfast International Airport as their airline folds.
Workers at Fujitsu's manufacturing plant in Antrim are set to take strike action over a pay dispute.
This year's Hydro Connect festival gets under way on Friday at Inverary Castle in Argyll.
A council manages to exceed its annual efficiency savings target by more than £5m.
Transatlantic budget carrier Zoom Airlines, with an operation in Cardiff, suspends all flights after applying to go into administration.
Workers at the DVLA strike over claims they are paid 16% less than others in the Department of Transport
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