After taxes, the richest 10 per cent earned 9.5 times the income of the poorest 10 per cent in 2010

A new law intended to ensure insurance firms pay compensation when employers' paperwork is lost will apply only to some cancer sufferers, and they will get less than expected

If you're one of the Britons who only walks for nine minutes a day, read on: inactivity is the world's fourth-biggest killer, and two-thirds of us are not being physical enough for good health

One in 10 renting families have had to change their children's school in the past five years because they had to move home

Violent internet film postings often disguised to lure in innocent youngsters, survey says

Chancellor’s aide joins new campaign demanding that British women be recognised on banknotes

Scoring wonder goals galore in the Premier League this season, Gareth Bale may have thought his claim to be the “Welsh Maradona” was secure. Little did he reckon upon a rival claim from a 20-stone, 50-year-old, unemployed fisherman from Pembrokeshire.

The departing chair of UK Sport, whose strategies helped win 2012 glory, tells Emily Dugan that administrators need to stand up to the politicians

Daughter of man who killed himself in a car 'left feeling sick and empty' on viewing video

We’re constantly regaled with tales of our broken society. But a new report has revealed that violent crime is falling – and faster than in any other European country. Emily Dugan explains how it all went right