PRESSURE was mounting on UK and Scottish ministers last night to try to save hundreds of banking jobs.

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says the swine flu pandemic is the fastest-moving of all time and that it is now pointless to count every case.

UP TO 65,000 people in Britain could die as a result of swine flu as the pandemic takes hold across the country, according to the government's latest calculations.

ACTOR Hugo Speer has been banned from the road for 18 months after he drove home from a friend's wake while twice the legal drink-drive limit.

GORDON Brown faced renewed attacks over the conditions facing British troops in Afghanistan yesterday, on the day that a damning report warned a chronic shortage of helicopter

FOR months he was the most reviled man in the country, blamed for the banking collapse, but as elusive as Lord Lucan.

THE most senior British officer to be killed in action since the Falklands War was praised as the "best of the best" yesterday.

DAVID Mitchell's credentials as a well-spoken middle-class Englishman are sound. He was born in Salisbury to hotel manager parents and educated at the independent Abingdo

A WEEKLY update for MPs, showing how the swine flu pandemic is spreading across their constituencies, was promised yesterday by Commons Leader Harriet Harman.

A BROTHEL madam has been ordered by a court to pay back the £2.6 million she made through the sex trade.

CORONATION Street is to make history as the first fictional location to appear on Google's Street View.

HOLIDAYMAKERS have been urged to avoid buying counterfeit goods abroad in a bid to help crack down on serious organised crime.

FLOORING firm Allied Carpets was yesterday placed into administration, putting 1,100 jobs under threat.

FORMER American president Bill Clinton said during a visit to Scotland that if he was going to start his career again he would go into renewables. It was the ultimate piece of

A BRITISH soldier killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan has been named as Rifleman Aminiasi Toge from 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

A MASKED man lay in wait for a footballer attending a training session before gunning him down in front of team-mates, police said yesterday.

A MAN was arrested on suspicion of murder yesterday after a house blaze that killed a teenager and her two young brothers on Wednesday.

THE mother of one of three Britons held hostage in Iraq for more than two years has claimed that the government's "low-key approach" has turned them into "for

A HEROIC soldier who rushed across unchecked ground to save a fatally injured combat medic broke down in tears at an inquest yesterday, as he recounted his comrade's final

THE Ministry of Defence has admitted one of its helicopters used in Afghanistan was a "cut and shut" â€" a combination of two aircraft.