Stuart Lancaster believes Mike Tindall will have a point to prove when he plays for the Barbarians against England at Twickenham on May 27.
Read
Toby Flood will be ruled out of England's tour to South Africa if he is not fit in time to play the first Test on June 9, head coach Stuart Lancaster has indicated.
Read
SCHOOLCHILDREN from Brent came face to face with some of the stars of the Rugby World Sevens circuit last Wednesday.
Read
Teenager George Ford drove Leicester into a remarkable eighth successive Premiership final as Tigers ended Saracens' reign as English champions with a 24-15 success.
Read
Harlequins reached their first Aviva Premiership final with a nail-biting 25-23 victory over Northampton, sealed four minutes from time when Joe Marler was driven over for a converted try.
Read
Teenager George Ford could be thrown into the biggest game of his career on Saturday evening.
Read
England coach Stuart Lancaster has included 13 uncapped players in his 42-man squad for the five-match, three-Test summer tour of South Africa.
Read
An 83-year-old man has achieved a double by becoming the oldest living kidney donor in the UK and the oldest person in the country to give a kidney to a stranger.
Read
The Queen is visiting Chester Zoo as part of her Diamond Jubilee tour to celebrate 60 years on the throne.
Read
The touchdown of the Olympic Flame on British soil could trigger the greatest buzz yet about the London 2012 Games, Lord Coe hopes.
Read
Archive films are being used to help people with dementia and other memory disorders in a new project.
Read
Mothers face unexpected side-effects when they work from home, including higher energy bills and having more washing-up to do, according to a new study.
Read
One in six adults have started growing their own food in the last four years, with the majority saying they have done so to save money, according to a poll.
Read
Three people were arrested as far right-groups were accused by police of using diversionary tactics to promote their message.
Read
The survival of the European single currency is in question, creating "huge risks" for Britain's economy, Prime Minister David Cameron is to say.
Read
Queen Sofia of Spain will not be attending a lunch to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee amid a row over Gibraltar, it has been reported.
Read
Apprenticeships of less than six months provide "no real benefit" to trainees or their employers, a parliamentary report has warned.
Read
The grieving parents of a baby boy killed by a falling lamppost have accused a coroner's court of failing to provide answers about their son's death.
Read
A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as it lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.
Read
London Underground is to be prosecuted by the rail regulator over a runaway engineering train, it has been disclosed.
Read
Nearly 3,000 jobs are to be axed after the administrators of Clinton Cards announced plans to close 350 stores.
Read
A young man who has always pleaded his innocence over a 2004 murder has enjoyed his first taste of freedom in more than seven years after a dramatic twist in his case at the Court of Appeal.
Read
A young man who has spent more than seven years behind bars for a murder he has always insisted he did not commit was greeted by emotional scenes as he was freed on bail by the Court of Appeal.
Read
A 15-year-old youth is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of stabbing a student to death in a row over conkers.
Read
Sir Mervyn King and David Cameron have led an attack on a lack of progress in tackling the eurozone crisis as the region's problems threatened to hamper UK growth.
Read
Former Cabinet minister Jack Straw has told how he often used to "gossip" with Rebekah Brooks on the train.
Read
The Government has welcomed a fall in unemployment and the number of dole claimants but admitted there were too many people in part-time jobs who wanted full-time work.
Read
Children's television programmes including Blue Peter and Newsround will be moved off BBC1 and BBC2 as part of the corporation's cost-cutting measures.
Read
A man found guilty of a 2004 murder is to be freed on bail after the prosecution announced it was not opposing his appeal against conviction.
Read
Leading figures from the worlds of media, politics, and the arts have gathered to pay emotional tribute to "bravest of the brave" war correspondent Marie Colvin.
Read
The Home Secretary has faced calls to resign as she was told she had lost the trust of the police.
Read
Sir Mervyn King has delivered a hard-hitting verdict on Europe's debt woes as he admitted the crisis will hamper UK growth this year and next.
Read
Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.
Read
The Rochdale sex grooming scandal was a "truly dreadful case" which must be investigated further, David Cameron has said.
Read
David Cameron has attempted to brush off an attack from Labour over his closeness to former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.
Read
All schools could be allowed to set their own teachers' pay under controversial proposals published by the Government.
Read
The Home Secretary has been heckled as she told rank-and-file officers that changes to their pay and conditions were reforms which hard-working police officers should welcome.
Read
Senior judge Panagiotis Pikramenos has been named Greece's caretaker prime minister and new elections will be held on June 17, according to reports on state TV.
Read
The father of six siblings who lost their lives in a suspected arson attack has broken down in tears as he issued a statement thanking fire crews for their efforts to save his children.
Read
Rupert Murdoch believed the power wielded by his newspapers benefited his wider commercial interests, former cabinet minister Jack Straw has said.
Read
Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King has warned of the "risk of a storm heading our way from the Continent" as he flagged the eurozone as the greatest threat to the UK's recovery.
Read
The Government has been given some welcome good news on the jobs front when unemployment fell by 45,000 and the number of dole claimants dipped for the second month in a row.
Read
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Read
British tourists are finding their holiday money going further not just in the eurozone but in many other destinations as well, according to a survey.
Read
The father of six siblings who lost their lives in a suspected arson attack on their home is expected to speak about the tragedy.
Read
Rebekah Brooks has expressed her bewilderment and launched a defiant attack against police and prosecutors after it was announced that she is to face criminal charges over the phone hacking scandal.
Read
Mothers will receive one-to-one care from a named midwife during labour and birth as part of Government plans to combat postnatal depression.
Read
Greenpeace has been warned against encouraging anti-social behaviour after an ad asked supporters to sponsor the painting of a power station chimney.
Read
The average family with children throws away £680 of food a year, according to research.
Read
Nurses who work with people with learning disabilities have "real concerns" about the safety of their clients because of cuts in services, according to a new study.
Read
The Home Secretary is "on the precipice of destroying a police service that is admired and replicated throughout the world", according to rank-and-file officers.
Read
A spending watchdog has hit out at the failure of Whitehall departments to join a major anti-fraud initiative which has uncovered £275 million of scams, overpayment and errors in the past two years.
Read
German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande say they have agreed to discuss ways to generate economic growth in Europe.
Read
An Afghan detainee who says he was subjected to torture after being handed over to the Afghan authorities following capture by British forces has won permission to challenge the legality of his transfer.
Read
Labour has withdrawn a series of Parliamentary questions it wanted Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to answer about his relations with News Corporation after a warning that MPs could jeopardise parts of the investigation into press ethics.
Read
A detainee who says he was subjected to torture after being handed over to the Afghan authorities following capture by British forces has won permission to challenge the legality of his transfer.
Read
Greece is headed for another month of political paralysis ahead of a new general election in mid-June after party leaders failed to agree a coalition government.
Read
Rebekah Brooks has angrily attacked police and prosecutors for dragging her friends and family into the phone-hacking scandal as she said she was "baffled" to face charges.
Read
A mentally-ill man has set himself on fire outside the court where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried for the bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people.
Read
Greece will hold a new general election in June after days of talks failed to resolve the country's political deadlock.
Read
The Bank of England will paint a gloomier view of the UK's recovery on Wednesday in its first assessment on prospects since the return to recession.
Read
Lord Justice Leveson has defended his inquiry into media standards and said he "was not in any way" seeking to challenge the right of Parliament to examine any of the issues his inquiry is covering.
Read
An unidentified man has set himself on fire outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre on July 22.
Read
A Royal Navy frigate has undertaken three counter-piracy operations during a seven-month deployment in the Indian Ocean.
Read
Greece will face another general election, socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said after talks to agree a new government produced no deal.
Read
New laws to control newspapers in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal would not get through Parliament, the former head of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has said.
Read
The operator of a helicopter which ditched in the North Sea last week with 14 people on board is to resume normal flying in the next 24 hours.
Read
China has protested about Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit to London on Monday.
Read
Rebekah Brooks has come out fighting as she became one of the first suspects to be prosecuted over the phone-hacking scandal.
Read
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called on NHS staff and patients to hold the Government to account for difficulties resulting from its controversial reforms to the health service.
Read
China has criticised David Cameron for meeting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule.
Read
A mother accused of killing her two babies was too ill to appear at the Old Bailey.
Read
Government plans to withdraw child benefit from parents earning more than £50,000 are "seriously flawed in principle and in practice", and threaten public confidence in the tax system, the official accountants' body has warned.
Read
A helicopter which ditched in the North Sea with 14 people on board suffered an engine malfunction less than a month ago.
Read
An employee of HM Revenue and Customs has been arrested by detectives investigating corrupt payments to public officials.
Read
Francois Hollande has been sworn in as France's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris.
Read
The European Union has said its naval force off the Somali coastline has carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore.
Read
Water providers have come under increased pressure from the industry watchdog to ensure drought-stricken areas are helped by regions with more plentiful supplies.
Read
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is to be charged with perverting the course of justice during the phone-hacking scandal.
Read
Two Britons have died in separate incidents while holidaying in Gran Canaria - just days after parts of the Canary Islands were issued with heatwave warnings.
Read
The number of people in their 50s dying prematurely from cancer in the UK has reached a record low, new figures have revealed.
Read
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will find out on Tuesday if she will be charged with perverting the course of justice during the phone-hacking scandal.
Read
Schools are to be banned from taking pupils' fingerprints and using face-recognition technology without consent, ministers have announced.
Read
Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to accuse the Government of acting like "the masters, not the servants" of the NHS.
Read
Newsreader Sophie Raworth has told how she struggled to fight back tears during one of the most heart-wrenching bulletins.
Read
Owners of dangerously out of control dogs which harm others in a public place will face up to 18 months in prison under new guidelines for judges.
Read
The number of men doing part-time work because they cannot find a full-time job has more than doubled in the last four years, according to a new study.
Read
The prospect of Greece crashing out of the euro is damaging economies across Europe, including Britain's, Chancellor George Osborne has warned.
Read
A Manchester City victory party has turned the streets of the city sky blue as 100,000 fans cheered their injury time heroes.
Read
The EU has insisted that austerity should be the basis of Greece's economic revival as the beleaguered country's struggle to form a unity government continues.
Read
Greece is struggling to form a unity government after EU countries insisted austerity remained the basis of the country's economic revival.
Read
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will find out on Tuesday if she will be charged with perverting the course of justice during the phone-hacking scandal.
Read
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will find out on Tuesday if she will be charged with perverting the course of justice during the phone-hacking scandal.
Read
Jeremy Hunt is under renewed pressure after the UK's former top civil servant insisted he should have been clear what discussions his special adviser could have with News Corporation over its bid for BSkyB.
Read
A house fire in which six siblings died as they slept in their beds is believed to have been deliberately started, police said.
Read
A £38 billion black hole in the UK's defence budget has been eliminated, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed.
Read
Police have revealed that five of the six children who died in a house fire were killed by smoke inhalation.
Read
Millions of pounds of lottery money will be used to boost the film industry as part of a five-year plan to increase audiences and find new talent.
Read
Nurses have heckled and laughed at Health Secretary Andrew Lansley after he claimed clinical staffing levels in the NHS had increased.
Read
Vandalism at an ancient castle and tourist landmark has been described by police as a mindless act of criminal damage.
Read
