Economic experts are questioning the impact of Chancellor Alistair Darling's surprise announcement of £2.7 billion to compensate people who lost out from the abolition of the 10p income tax rate.

Unemployment has increased and the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance has risen at the highest rate for two years, new figures show.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is making a legal bid for freedom by claiming his human rights have been breached.

Sainsbury's has crowned a three-year turnaround plan by ringing up bumper annual profits of £488 million.

Mortgage bank Bradford & Bingley has asked shareholders for £300 million in a bid to bolster its balance sheet.

Proposals to scrap the Government's controversial plans to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days have been published by MPs and peers.

Police are questioning two men in connection with the murder of a man fatally stabbed in Oxford Street.

Ministry of Defence staff recorded sightings of alien craft over Wallasey Town Hall and a saucer-shaped Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) hovering over Waterloo Bridge, it has been revealed.

The Parliamentary sleaze watchdog has dismissed a complaint about the taxpayer-funded taxi journeys of Commons Speaker Michael Martin's wife.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will seek to regain the political initiative with a legislative programme for the coming year designed to show the Government is "on the side of the British people".

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