Raft Of Tax Reforms Come Into Effect In UK

Two million people could be removed from paying income tax altogether from today as a raft of reforms come into effect. Among the changes are a rise in the personal allowance which will mean no one pays any tax until they earn more than £9,440. The...

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Man Dies Making Documentary About Homeless

Police are investigating the death of a young documentary maker who was sleeping rough in freezing temperatures to highlight the plight of the homeless. Lee Halpin, 26, had planned to spend a week living on the streets in his home city of Newcastle....

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Grand National: Hopes For A Positive Story

On the one day the world tunes in to jump racing, the sport itself is holding its breath. Worldwide, 600 million people watch the Grand National on the year's biggest day for betting in Britain. But all at Aintree know any further equine deaths this...

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London Shooting: Two Men Charged With Murder

Two men have appeared in court accused of shooting a teenager dead. Natnael Tesfay, 20, and Christopher Aluma, 18, appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London charged with the murder of Mohammed Hussein, 19. They are accused of shooting...

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Devon House Fire: Teens Die, Boy In Hospital

Two teenagers have died and a young boy is in a serious condition in hospital following a house fire in Devon. Police said the 17-year-old girl and 18-year-old man died from injuries sustained in the blaze at a property in Lee Close in Honiton. The...

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Teen Girl 'Set Up' Footballer's Stab Death

A 14-year-old "set up" her boyfriend to stab a teenage footballer she thought had "disrespected" her leaving him bleeding to death on a makeshift soccer pitch. Cherelle McKenzie-Jackson called in her 17-year-old boyfriend Marc Anthony Tulloch to "punish"...

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Five Arrested In Triple Murder Inquiry

Police are linking the suspected murders of two men found at the side of a country road with that of a man found stabbed to death in a ditch last weekend. The pair were discovered by a member of the public close to the Cambridgeshire village of Thorney...

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Children's Heart Unit Could Reopen Next Week

Children's heart surgery could resume at Leeds General Infirmary as early as next week. Operations were suspended last week because of claims the children's cardiac unit had a death rate double the average. But medical bodies and doctors have questioned...

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HMV Rescue Saves 141 Stores And 2,500 Jobs

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor HMV's future as a high street retailer has been salvaged in a £50m deal that secures 2,500 jobs on Britain's beleaguered high streets. Hilco, a restructuring firm, confirmed on Friday morning that it had struck an...

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Ed Balls Admits Speeding On Motorway

Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls has admitted speeding - and that he was caught "bang to rights". He said he was travelling 56mph in a 50mph zone on the M62 motorway in his West Yorkshire constituency when he triggered a trap. The MP for Morley and...

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Hate Crime: Goths, Punks And Emos Recognised

Emo, Goth And Punk Explained Updated: 1:15pm UK, Thursday 04 April 2013 A look at what defines goths, emos and punks as Greater Manchester Police becomes the first force in the country to officially recognise hate crimes against such sub-cultures....

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Stockton House Fire: Investigation As Two Die

An elderly couple have been killed in a house fire in Carlton near Stockton-on-Tees, emergency workers have said. The man and woman, understood to be 90 and 88-years-old respectively, died when the fire ripped through a property on Thorpe Road. The...

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Fire Deaths: Philpotts And Friend Jailed

Mick Philpott has been described in court as "the driving force" behind a fire that killed six of his children, as he was sentenced to life in prison. "Shameless Mick", as he was known on his estate, was told by the trial judge at Nottingham Crown Court...

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Ovenden Sex Case: Tate Removes Artist's Work

The Tate has removed several works by artist Graham Ovenden from the its online collection following his conviction for child sex offences. The Tate owns 34 prints by the Cornish artist. A spokeswoman for the gallery said: "Graham Ovenden is an artist...

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Prince William Kiss Too Much For Glasgow Girl

By Paul Harrison, Royal Correspondent A four-year-old girl waited all day to ask Prince William, who is on a visit to Scotland, to give him a kiss - but as he offered one, she was too shy and turned away. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge began...

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Iain Banks Announces He Has 'Months' To Live

Best-selling author Iain Banks has announced he has cancer and only several months to live. In a statement posted on his website, the 59-year-old Scottish novelist revealed he is in the final stages of gall-bladder cancer and is unlikely to live "beyond...

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Derby Fire: Philpotts Face Jail Over Deaths

Mick Philpott, who killed six children by setting fire to his home, stabbed a previous girlfriend 13 times, injuring her so badly she still has to take medication, a court has heard. Philpott's criminal record was laid out in front of a judge at Nottingham...

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Nobel Peace Prize Taken In Newcastle Burglary

A gold Nobel Peace Prize awarded in the 1930s has been stolen from the Lord Mayor's Mansion House in Newcastle. The thieves who broke into the building's cellar also made off with a lock of hair from Admiral Lord Collingwood and antique silverware....

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First Charges In Savile Sex Investigation

A man is to be charged as part of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal - the first charges under Operation Yewtree. Driver David Smith will be charged with five sex offences including two of indecent assault on a boy under 14 in 1984 and two of gross indecency...

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Joss Stone: Two Guilty Of Plot To Kill Singer

A jury has found two men guilty of plotting to rob and kill pop singer Joss Stone. Kevin Liverpool, aged 35, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years and eight months. The sentencing of his co-accused, Junior Bradshaw, 32, was ajourned....

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Teenager Shot Dead In North London Named

A 19-year-old man who died after he was shot in the chest in north London has been named. Mohammed Hussein was found collapsed in Bounces Road, Edmonton at around 9.45pm on Monday. Paramedics battled for half an hour to save him but he was pronounced...

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Graham Ovenden: Artist Guilty Of Sex Offences

An internationally famous artist has been convicted of sex offences against young children who modelled for him in the 1970s and 1980s. Graham Ovenden, 70, was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one of indecent assault, by a jury...

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Windermere Boat Deaths: Engine Investigated

A faulty boat generator may have been responsible for the deaths of a mother and her daughter from suspected gas poisoning. Kelly Webster, 36, and her daughter Lauren Thornton, 10,  from Leyland in Lancashire, died after eating lunch on the 25ft...

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Benefits: Osborne Defends Welfare Shake-Up

George Osborne has robustly defended the Government's controversial benefits shake-up - insisting Britain can no longer afford to reward people who do the "wrong thing". Speaking at a supermarket distribution centre in Kent, the Chancellor condemned...

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Mick And Mairead Philpott Guilty Over Fire Deaths

Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead have been found guilty of the manslaughter of six children in a fire at their house in Derby. Their friend Paul Mosley was also convicted of manslaughter over the petrol-fuelled blaze that engulfed the semi-detached...

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Welfare Reforms 'Will Make Benefits Fairer'

The Government is beginning the biggest shake-up in the history of the Welfare State with the introduction of a raft of reforms which it says will make the benefits system "fairer". Chancellor George Osborne and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan...

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Guildford Station Murder Probe: Tributes Paid

Tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old man who died when he was hit by a train after a confrontation at a railway station. Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the victim, named locally as Ryan Harrison, suffered fatal injuries...

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David Miliband Quits Sunderland Over Di Canio

Sunderland's Hero Or Fascist Zero? Updated: 12:49pm UK, Monday 01 April 2013 By Matt Teale, Sports Presenter So, Paolo Di Canio, not Martin O'Neill, is the man to steer Sunderland to safety, according to the club's owner Ellis Short. The timing...

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Ditch Stabbing: Man Found In Roadside Named

A man whose body was discovered in a roadside ditch has been named by police investigating his murder. Kevin Lee, 48, was found by officers beside the A16 at Newborough, near Peterborough, on Saturday morning after a call from a member of the public....

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Weather: Jet Stream Blamed For UK Cold Snap

As Britain leaves behind what looks to have been the coldest March for more than 50 years, forecasters are warning it will stay cold for another week at least. Meteorologists are blaming the bad weather on the position of the jet stream, a narrow band...

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Archbishop Welby Warns Against 'Hero Culture'

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched an attack on society's belief that things can improve through change without God, in his first Easter message. The Most Rev Justin Welby warned against 'vain human optimism' in change as it would lead to cynicism,...

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Easter Sunday Is The Coldest On Record

This Easter Sunday was the coldest on record after temperatures fell to -12.5C in Braemar, central Scotland. The previous coldest temperature for Easter Sunday was -9.8C recorded in 1986 after modern record-keeping began in 1960. Sky News weather producer...

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Belfast Pizza Delivery Shooting Victim Named

A pizza delivery man shot dead outside a Domino's takeaway in Belfast has been named as Kieran McManus, aged 26. He is understood to have been hit twice during the attack at Kennedy Way in the west of the city on Saturday night. DCI Karen Baxter from...

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Glencoe Avalanche: Rescue Teams Find Body

Police searching for a skier missing after an avalanche struck near Glencoe in Scotland have found a body. Daniel Maddox, from Clackmannanshire, was skiing in an off-piste area behind Glencoe Ski Centre with his friend when the avalanche struck at about...

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Policewoman Sues Man Who Called 999

A man who dialled 999 fearing a burglary at his petrol station is being sued by the policewoman who answered the call because she fell on the premises. The officer, Kelly Jones, tripped over a kerbstone when she went to the station in Thetford, Norfolk,...

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