Police killer admits double murder

Police killer Dale Cregan has admitted the murders of a father and son.Read

Shop sales hit by cold weather

Freezing weather drove retail sales 1.3% down in April on a month earlier as barbecue goods and garden furniture remained stuck on stores' shelves.Read

Public borrowing down to £6.3bn

Public sector borrowing dipped to £6.3 billion in April to give the Government breathing space in attempts to slash the deficit.Read

Clegg: I discussed tax with Google

Nick Clegg raised the controversy over Google's tax affairs directly with the internet giant's boss Eric Schmidt at a meeting in Downing Street, the Deputy Prime Minister has revealed.Read

Child killer gagging order lifted

The High Court has overturned an order granting anonymity to a killer who committed "exceptionally horrific crimes".Read

PM 'proud' of gay marriage Bill

David Cameron has insisted he was proud of legislation to introduce gay marriage, despite a Commons rebellion which saw 130 of his own MPs oppose the change on Tuesday night.Read

Cameron tribute to party grassroots

David Cameron has continued to reach out to his party's grassroots, insisting "I feel I am one of them" in the wake of the damaging claims an ally had sneered at activists.Read

Coalition stays together, says PM

David Cameron has insisted it is his intention to keep the coalition together until the 2015 general election.Read

Act on tax avoidance, urges Cameron

David Cameron is to step up the campaign against tax evasion and "aggressive" tax avoidance as Apple joins multinational corporations in the spotlight.Read

Better pay 'means bigger classes'

Plans to give heads the power to award higher pay rises to good teachers will result in larger class sizes for children, the Chief Inspector of Schools has warned.Read

Tornado survivors search nears end

Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared areas down to bare earth and claimed 24 lives, including nine children.Read

PM faces gay marriage Bill backlash

David Cameron is facing a fresh bout of Tory strife after the coalition's plans to introduce gay marriage cleared the Commons.Read

55 beaches meet tough new standards

More than 50 English beaches have met tough new EU standards to receive Blue Flag awards for 2013.Read

'Failures' in tax fraud crackdown

Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money is being lost because of the failure of HM Revenue and Customs to clamp down effectively on fraud and error, MPs have warned.Read

£100bn 'lost through tax avoidance'

People using tax havens have deprived governments worldwide of £100 billion in revenue, enough to end extreme poverty twice over, according to new figures published by Oxfam.Read

102 free school proposals approved

Education Secretary Michael Gove has approved more than 100 free school applications, which will make up around 50,000 school places.Read

Police force to sell unused £11m HQ

A police force that spent more than £11 million on a headquarters it has never used has announced it will sell the site after it has been empty for five years.Read

Afghan interpreters can come to UK

Around 600 Afghan interpreters are to be offered the chance to settle in Britain after an apparent coalition rethink.Read

'Alarming rate' of wildlife decline

UK wildlife is "in trouble", with almost 2,000 species of birds, animals, insects and plants known to have declined in the past half century, experts have warned.Read

Food hygiene 'a postcode lottery'

Food outlets in parts of the London borough of Bexley have the worst hygiene standards of more than 2,000 postcodes, while those in Birmingham's B35 area offer the best, according to a Which? investigation.Read

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