HEROIN with an estimated street value of £2.2 million has been seized after it was smuggled into the Britain in a lorry from France, the UK Border Agency said yesterday.

TOWER Bridge in London is to receive a £4 million facelift over the next four years.

ANOTHER 450 British soldiers are set to be sent to Afghanistan from autumn for two years of intensive fighting.

THE TV presenter Trisha Goddard is being treated for breast cancer, it was revealed yesterday.

BABIES and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day are twice as likely to be overweight by the time they are three than children who sleep for longer, research showed yest

ONE of the key strands of the conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths was that Diana and Dodi had been about to announce their engagement.

BRITISH Airways is hoping to operate all its flights at Heathrow's beleaguered fifth terminal today for the first time since it opened 12 days ago.

SHOPPERS have had their credit card limits cut by £3.1 billion as finance firms worry about consumers' ability to repay their debts, research has shown.

HERE are some unlikely facts observers have learned during the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales:

ONLY a few hours after the death of his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, a grief-stricken Mohamed al-Fayed declared: "It is not an accident, it is an assassination.

PAUL Burrell, the former royal butler, could face a perjury investigation following the completion of the Diana inquest.

POLICE are expected to continue questioning the mother of Shannon Matthews today about the nine-year-old's disappearance.

THE Omagh bombing was described as "a massacre of the innocents" yesterday, as a civil action was launched against five men the victims' families believe to be re

YOU can already use them to take photographs, play music and surf the internet. Now, latest technology will transform the mobile phone into a debit card.

A SOLICITOR was jailed for 10 years yesterday after enjoying a life of "obscene extravagance" on £1.2 million he stole from a disabled client.

AN INQUEST jury yesterday ruled that Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by the "gross negligence" of their drunken driver and a pack of

Presidentof Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has left with an official visit for the SocialistPeople's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. As thePresident's press office reports, the visit foresees the meeting of the Presidentof Ukraine with leader of the Libyan revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi. Also, the

President of Ukraine ViktorYushchenko calls results of NATO summit as historical and states that theposition of all NATO countries-members concerning Ukraine "surpassed all expectations". He stated in an interview to TV channel "Inter"on Sunday evening. Yushchenko has noted that NATOmembership

PresidentViktor Yushchenko took part for the second time in civil action of bringingorder to Mystetsky Arsenal territory. President's press office reports. President stated in an interview with journalists: "Undoubtedly if I am in Kyiv, if I am in Ukraine, I

Ukraine'sFirst Deputy Prime Minister Oleksander Turchynov does not exclude that the Government will correctmacroeconomic indicators before drafting of the bill on amendments to the 2008national budget. Cabinet's press service reports. Heemphasized that the main reason for analysis of public finance