DAMAGE caused by flooding in southern Scotland and Cumbria could cost up to £100 million to repair, insurers said yesterday.

SCOTLAND'S population of red kites is bucking a Europe-wide trend of decline in the species, according to a survey by the RSPB.

MANY parents have lost the art of being parents and expect and hope children will go off and amuse themselves without much parental supervision.

POLICE and politicians last night condemned the latest attempts to derail Northern Ireland's peace process after a car bomb attack and gun battle involving suspected dissi

GORDON Brown will today set out his hope that investment from China can drive the economic recovery in Britain.

BANKS could be flooded with eight million refund claims for unauthorised overdraft charges if they lose the current High Court test case, it was claimed today.

THE Big Apple promises the best bargains for Britons wanting to do their Christmas shopping abroad this year.

A CANOEIST drowned and a woman was believed to have been swept away in swollen rivers in Devon and Wales.

A TRIAL scheme to help people onto the housing market and boost housebuilders through the recession was unveiled by the Scottish Government yesterday.

GORDON Brown and David Cameron apologised after suggestions that they competed for photo opportunities at a Remembrance Day service attended by the Queen, it was revealed

AN EMERGENCY budget would be held by the Conservatives within 50 days of them winning a general election, David Cameron said yesterday. The Tory leader insisted a revised fina

MANY workers are continuing to have their pay frozen despite hopes that the economy is poised for recovery from recession, according to a new report.

THE most-used English phrases of the last decade have been revealed, painting a gloomy picture of the global mood.

A FIRST edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking book Origin of Species, which languished for years in a toilet, will go under the hammer tomorrow, on the 150th annivers

TEN British servicewomen on operations in Afghanistan were sent back to the UK in the past six months after falling pregnant.

A TEENAGER was charged yesterday with the murder of a mother of two who was left dying and mutilated in the street, police said. Geeta Aulakh, 28, was found by a passer-by in

A ROMAN Catholic priest in Northern Ireland was asked to leave his post over child abuse claims dating back to the 1970s, it was announced yesterday.

A MAN of 59 was being held under police guard in hospital yesterday after the body of Sharon Green, 53, was found with stab wounds by a member of her family at her home in Ma

TWO men were questioned yesterday over the murder of a teenager who was stabbed and then run over by a car.

AT LEAST two police officers were injured yesterday after their car was involved in a crash on a motorway slip road. The incident, involving a marked Essex police car, caused