TWO young men have drowned in a reservoir while swimming.

A BRITON was killed in a double murder in New Zealand.

FRIENDS and neighbours of a missing 12-year-old boy found him hanging from a tree.

EVIDENCE found in a Second World War bunker "corroborates" claims by alleged child abuse victims in Jersey, detectives said yesterday.

A MAN who was killed at a busy railway station died when he reportedly urinated on the electric line, police said yesterday.

THE Indie group Hamfatter have become an overnight success, selling 1,500 singles following their appearance on Dragon's Den, according to an entertainment retailer.

THE high price of using credit cards to withdraw money from cashpoints was revealed yesterday. The average rate charged by credit-card firms on cash withdrawals has risen to

A PENSIONER who has lived in the same house for 91 years claimed yesterday it was now worth about 500 times more than its original price.

THE United States has replaced Australia as the backpackers' favourite destination, partly because of the strength of the pound against the dollar.

MEMBERS of the public could be allowed to petition the Commons via the internet, it was announced yesterday, and the authors of the most significant petitions could be calle

A HEADTEACHER is cracking down on schoolgirls who turn up for class looking "orange" after using cheap fake tans.

THE design and construction of the new House of Commons visitors' entrance was subject to "exceptional delay and significant cost overruns", the Commons management

TONY Blair's globetrotting "farewell tour" before leaving Downing Street cost the taxpayer almost £725,000, it was revealed last night.

A CLIMATE-CHANGE protester superglued himself to Gordon Brown's sleeve last night at a reception in Downing Street.

A MOTHER of two has won more than £800,000 in damages after a radical detox diet left her brain-damaged and epileptic, it emerged yesterday.

PORTUGUESE detectives made Madeleine McCann's parents suspects on the "slightest chance" they could have been involved in her disappearance, a leaked report revea