Rising numbers of primary schools are giving children a substandard education, league tables show.

Alan Johnson has been accused of being "spineless" for sending a "suicidal and sectionable" British man to face justice in America.

Foreign Secretary speaks to Iranian counterpart after warnings the five British sailors could be held for weeks.

Average of 217.4mm of rain across Britain as Cumbria flooded.

It may not be on the scale of the "dodgy dossier" that he "sexed up" on Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction, but Alastair Campbell has become involved in another row over his writing.

Having enjoyed a brief appearance opposite Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day, Deborah Moore is now hoping to share the screen with his successor as James Bond, Daniel Craig.

Formula One legend Murray Walker has been voted the greatest sports commentator of all time.

Sue Amer, the widow of the 99th solider to die in Afghanistan, said her husband was a "hero".

Climate change sceptics have been forced to change their own graph showing a decrease in global temperatures after admitting that they got it wrong.

Professor Phil Jones, the director of a research unit at the centre of a row over climate change data, has said he will stand down from the post while an independent review takes place.

Scotland's justice minister has been accused of "jumping the gun" after the number of police officers north of the Border fell back below an official target.

Dave Bloomer is a "Voice of Bahrain" for many of the Gulf island's well-established expatriate population.

Middle class families are "insulated" from the impact of immigration and do not appreciate the problems faced by the working class in Britain, John Denham, the Communities Secretary said.

Pork pies, sausage rolls and packs of crisps should all be shrunk in size to tackle Britain's obesity epidemic, the Government's chief food adviser has recommended.

Britain could face a further shake-up in telephone codes as the regulator admits demand for new numbers is beginning to outstrip supply.

The British sailors captured by Iran will know there is no good time to be captured by the Revolutionary Guard.

Gordon Brown has been named the 74th most influential thinker in the world by a US magazine which also tipped him for "ignominious defeat" at the next election.

The number of children leaving school with a decent grasp of English has dropped for the first time since Sats were introduced, league tables show.

A ruling by the Supreme Court, which has preserved the last bastion of feudalism in the western world on the tiny Channel island of Sark, is to be challenged at the European Court of Human Rights.