Glamour Awards: Kylie scoops Outstanding Contribution award

Kylie Minogue has scooped an Outstanding Contribution gong at this year's Glamour Women of the Year Awards. The star, who celebrated her 44th birthday on Monday, was presented with the title by Scissor Sisters...

The Olympic flame tours Britain

The Olympic Flame for the London 2012 Summer Games is now on a 70 day journey around Britain and Ireland. Early Saturday, the first torchbearer set off from western England before a crowd of well- wishers. The...

Saucy Sherlock: Nude scenes detective show is most watched on BBC

The 'A Scandal In Belgravia' episode, which features actress Laura Pulver naked but for a pair of high heels, has attracted more than 2.5 million viewers online. Saucy Brits can’t get enough of...

London housewife on Bali drugs charge could escape death sentence

The middle-aged housewife held in a major drugs sting on the island of Bali could escape the death penalty after double crossing her alleged accomplices. But Linsday June Sandiford, from Fulham, south west...

Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say

A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed...

UK Government does U-turn over 'Cornish pasty tax'

The government is to reverse its plans to impose VAT on Cornish pasties, the BBC has learned. Ministers have also reduced the intended 20% charge which was due to be levied on static caravans to 5%. The U-turn from...

Coalition politics have proved a disaster

Outside wartime, rarely have the political stakes been higher. Over the past 12 months, as the eurozone has unravelled, Britain’s economy has reversed into a double-dip recession. The News of the World...

Hurst Castle the best kept secret on the south coast of England

Hurst Castle is probably the best kept secret on the south coast of England. Situated at the seaward end of the shingle spit that extends 1.5 miles from Milford on Sea. The end of the spit, only three-quarters of a...

PM's team orchestrated Commons heckling campaign

David Cameron’s aides orchestrated a heckling campaign against Ed Miliband, it can be revealed. It is the noisy highlight of the parliamentary week – the verbal sparring at Prime Minister’s Questions....

Ed Balls is right, VAT increase has cost Britain dearly.

David Cameron and George Gideon Oliver Osborne were wrong, Ed Balls was right. Nearly every leading economist and 70% of the British public are aware that the raising of VAT from 17.5% to 20% on 4 January 2011 was...

Queen Victoria's complete private diaries are now on-line

A message from HM Queen Elizabeth II In this the year of my Diamond Jubilee, I am delighted to be able to present, for the first time, the complete on-line collection of Queen Victoria's journals from the Royal...

UK Recession deniers shown the way

David Cameron in a speech on the economy on the 17 May 2012 said: ""Despite headwinds from the Eurozone, we are on track...We are moving in the right direction". " This is total balderdash. The economy is tanking...

UK public sector lost £38 billion to fraud last year

23 May 2012 The public sector lost £38 billion to fraud, error and debt last year because of a "wilful ignorance" within government, it has been claimed. Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude hit out at the...

London property prices: The cracks are starting to show

22 May 2012 House prices in London have fallen for the first time in 30 months, figures reveal today. The drop comes after Britain slid into a double dip recession and wipes hundreds of pounds off the average...

IMF tells UK to consider VAT rate cut to boost growth

High youth unemployment and lack of any sort of spending demand sees the IMF saying that the UK should support the economy more with UK interest rate cuts, currently at a record low of 0.5%, a level the IMF said...