THE second of four brothers diagnosed with a rare genetic disease has returned home from hospital after a successful bone marrow transplant.

GORDON Brown has said that the former South African president Nelson Mandela will personally urge the world's richest nations to do more to help Africa.

The Disaster Emergency Committee is co-ordinating an appeal for the main charities.

IRELAND is on track to become the third-wealthiest economy in the world, it was claimed yesterday.

CHILDHOOD cancers may be caused by pollutants while babies are still in the womb, Cancer Research UK has claimed.

LABOUR is set to break with custom and stage its annual conference in Manchester next year, it emerged yesterday.

NEARLY three in four Britons believe Prince Harry was wrong to wear a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party, claims a poll.

SOAP fans will decide this week which three popular programmes should appear on stamps to mark ITV's 50th anniversary.

OLDER people in Britain are living in isolation, putting them at risk of depression and ill-health, a survey has revealed.

THE government's controversial anti-terrorism policies suffered a fresh blow yesterday with the resignation of another senior lawyer appointed to represent foreign detainees.

AN ADVERT written by and featuring Harry Enfield with a Winston Churchill lookalike has been banned by watchdogs because it might cause offence, according to its maker.

LONDON'S bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012 will be a "Dome Mark Two" and result in funding for good causes and sports in Scotland going "down the tube", it was claimed yesterday.

BRITAIN's prolonged military deployment in Iraq is dangerously overstretching the Royal Air Force and the Territorial Army, officers fear.

FRESH investigations are being carried out to establish whether Lance Corporal David Atkinson can be linked to the murder of Milly Dowler, the teenager who went missing on her way home from school nearly three years ago.

TWENTY-ONE British soldiers were arrested after a Wild West-style brawl at a stag night in Germany.

GORDON Brown has said that the former South African president Nelson Mandela will personally urge the world's richest nations to do more to help Africa.

SCIENTISTS have developed a simple eye test that can diagnose hyperactive children.

SIR Mark Thatcher should not have become involved in the "shenanigans" which led to him being arrested over an African coup plot, his sister said yesterday.

LABOUR ministers at Westminster fear they are being drawn into a damaging row with police chiefs over alcohol sales.

ANALYSIS"THESE things happen from time to time in politics," Michael Howard said airily when asked about Robert Jackson's defection.