A two-year-old girl dies in hospital after being struck by a van in Newry, County Down, police say.

An investigation is under way after a woman was the victim of a serious sex attack in an alley early on Sunday.

FRESH details about the Ecclestone affair â€" New Labour's first sleaze scandal â€" have been revealed in Whitehall documents.

PETER Mandelson is in line for a taxpayer-funded pay-off and pension of up to £1 million after leaving the European Commission to rejoin the Cabinet.

IT WOULD be wrong to say that Gordon Brown is revelling in the current financial crisis. He is much too serious for that. But there can be no doubt that he finds himself at ea

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WHAT the SNP have achieved is an argument for more powers for us and less for them."

Claire Smith meets Patrick Layden, one of the five guardians of Scots law

A MAN has been arrested and charged over a blog post detailing the imaginary kidnap, torture and murder of the members of pop group Girls Aloud, police said.

ALEX Salmond insisted yesterday that Scotland would have been better off in the current economic crisis had it been independent.

FROM proud banking icons to two humiliated, nationalised rumps: Scotland's two largest banks are being pulled from the brink of an economy-destroying collapse â€" but at the

GOVERNMENT plans to allow terrorist suspects to be held without trial for 42 days will be "walloped" by the House of Lords tonight, a leading Tory civil rights campaig

EUROPEAN leaders pledged at an economic crisis summit in Paris last night that no major financial institution will be allowed to collapse.

A MAN and woman were arrested and an investigation launched by police yesterday after the death of a three-month-old boy.

FAT jibes are "endemic" among Britons with nine out of 10 people who are overweight bullied because of their size, a survey has found.

A BRITISH mother campaigning for justice after the rape and murder of her teenage daughter in India is being summonsed to answer allegations of neglect.

NEARLY one-third of the UK's 60 million TV sets have still not been converted to digital, according to new figures.

AS MANY as 7 per cent of UK air travellers have had their bags go astray in the last two years, with 12 per cent of those who suffered luggage problems believing their bags

MEMBERS of the armed forces yesterday paraded through a small town to thank residents for honouring dead British service personnel.

A HOUSING development has won one of Britain's most prestigious architecture awards.