This brave group of new mothers have posed for a daring new calendar.

Bicycle sales have jumped by 20 per cent as workers take advantage of a tax break scheme according to new figures.

A family of a mink who set up home in the middle one of England's most beautiful cities have gone upmarket by moving into a block of luxury apartments.

At least 160 Britons are in quarantine around the world because of swine flu the Foreign Office has said.

One in seven workers now has a second job as people seek to make ends meet in the recession new research discloses.

A respected Labour MP has announced his resignation in frustration at parliament's failure to block the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.

The outgoing head of the army has paid tribute to the "fine and honourable" British soldiers risking their lives in Afghanistan who he said make the public feel pride in their country.

The swine flu outbreak has led to a sharp increase in accident and emergency patients.

A holidaymaker fell 80ft down a cliff at Newquay Cornwall where two teenagers have died and another has been seriously injured in the past four weeks.

Harry Patch the last surviving soldier to have fought in the mudsoaked battle of Passchendaele in 1917 has died at the age of 111.

In the second of our series on fixing Broken Britain Paul Kendall looks at the problems of the longterm jobless.

A father of four who was forced out of his own home by social workers over unfounded allegations of sexual abuse has been reunited with his family.

A Christian doctor who was sacked from an adoption panel for her views on homosexual parents has been allowed to resume her work following a public outcry.

The British backpacker who spent 12 days lost in the Australian wilderness feared he would starve to death if he couldn't get the attention of helicopters that were searching for him overhead.

The Government will be criticised over its handling of the swine flu crisis by a powerful parliamentary committee this week.

The author of Angela's Ashes had been gravely ill with meningitis and was suffering from skin cancer.

Drastic cuts in maternity services including bans on home births and the cancellation of planned caesarean sections could be introduced if swine flu develops into a major epidemic.

The House of Lords will be "dragged into the 21st century" under plans that will see hereditary peers phased out.

Dozens of towns and cities across Britain are being warned they are on a 'critical list' of failing high streets with some of their shops given a one in four chance of shutting down.

Winston Churchill the wartime prime minister claimed he had been 'sold a pup' by officials after finding out that his secret bunker was not bombproof.