STRESS is the main cause of rising absenteeism among workers.

AN OFFICE worker who loves Sugar Puffs has changed his name by deed poll â€" to Honey Monster.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl is critically ill in hospital after falling 100ft in the gap between two escalators at a Primark store.

JOURNALISTS staged the first of three 24-hour strikes yesterday in a row over pay.

WORKERS at three nuclear power sites, including Sellafield, could be balloted for their first industrial action in 19 years in a row over a 2 per cent pay offer.

HUNDREDS of rush-hour commuters were stranded for three hours on London's Underground after a power cut caused nine trains to get stuck on the Jubilee line on Thursday eve

POLICE have seized heroin with an estimated street value of £20 million as they broke up a suspected deal at a motorway service station on the M20 near Maidstone, Kent.

THE United States yesterday said it still supported an international agreement that requires the Lockerbie bomber to serve his sentence in Scotland.

CHRIS Tarrant and his former wife, Ingrid, have settled their divorce â€" with her getting about half of the TV star's £25 million fortune.

NAOMI Campbell yesterday accused British Airways of "an extreme reaction" after they called police to have her removed from a flight.

PRIVACY campaigners criticised BT yesterday after the telecoms giant admitted "spying" on its broadband customers.

THE mother and sister of Shannon Matthews' stepfather were arrested yesterday in connection with the disappearance of the nine-year-old.

CLIMATOLOGISTS may insist the world is getting warmer and that climate change is here to stay.

A COMPUTER games enthusiast from Scotland has scooped a record-breaking windfall â€" after winning an international football final at Wembley.

NEW car sales in March â€" the month when number plates change â€" reached a better than expected UK total of 451,642, it was announced yesterday.

TWO teenagers were each put behind bars for four years yesterday after they admitted killing a high-flying graduate in a "trivial" row over a discarded chocolate bar.

MUSICIAN Gary Brooker yesterday won his court battle to reclaim full royalty rights to his massive worldwide hit A Whiter Shade of Pale.

THE Duke of Edinburgh was yesterday admitted to hospital with a chest infection and has cancelled a string of engagements.

IT IS proving to be among the most colourful political contests in recent British politics.

MILLIONS of first-time buyers could be excluded from the housing ladder from next week when Britain's biggest mortgage lender puts up its rates for customers who cannot af