Talk of recovery 'premature'

1:11am Tuesday 7th July 2009

The worst of the recession is over, but talk of recovery is premature and unemployment continues to head over three million, a leading business group has predicted.

Immigrants 'don't top housing list'

1:11am Tuesday 7th July 2009

Claims that immigrants are given priority access to social housing have been dismissed as a myth by the equalities watchdog.

Probe into illness on cruise ship

1:03am Tuesday 7th July 2009

Health experts are trying to establish whether dozens of people taken ill on board a cruise ship are suffering from the norovirus.

Swine flu: Dead man and child named

12:27am Tuesday 7th July 2009

A teacher and a nine-year-old child who died after contracting swine flu have been named locally.

Miliband calls Labour Party reform

10:15pm Monday 6th July 2009

David Miliband has called for organisational reform of the Labour Party as he warned that voters were pressing the "fast forward button" on politics.

Protester invades Trafalgar plinth

7:39pm Monday 6th July 2009

An art project allowing thousands of people to take centre stage in Trafalgar Square overcame a wobbly start after a protester invaded the fourth plinth.

954 recalled offenders at large

7:14pm Monday 6th July 2009

Almost 1,000 criminals who should have been returned to prison are still at large, it has been revealed.

Burglars even take the kitchen sink

6:50pm Monday 6th July 2009

Burglars who plundered an historic country home in a £200,000 heist even stole the kitchen sink, police have said.

Tributes paid to five dead soldiers

6:50pm Monday 6th July 2009

Comrades, families and members of the public remembered five British soldiers killed in five bloody days of fighting in Afghanistan.

LA wants Jacksons to help with cost

6:50pm Monday 6th July 2009

The city of Los Angeles has asked Michael Jackson's family for financial help with the cost of coping with the singer's memorial, it has emerged.