Tougher punishments proposed to prevent another banking crisis

Ministers will consider a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals after new figures that show nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint were recorded in just one year.

Maybe he was simply overwhelmed with pride at  so many world leaders gathering in Northern Ireland. But the DUP's Reverend William McCrea's uncharacteristically lyrical question to William Hague about “hopes for successful negotiations' on an EU-US trade agreement during the ”G8 discussions in the beautiful surroundings of Fermanagh“ was  surprising. If he had his way we wouldn't  be in the EU-which the South Antrim MP recently described as ”a bureaucratic monstrosity that robs the coffers of our nation.“

By taking a 6am dip in the chilly waters of Lough Erne, accompanied by a reluctant police protection officer, while the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, stayed in bed, David Cameron has joined the macho band of political leaders who have sought to reinforce their authority with displays of physical fitness.

Aid agencies warn that the measures did not go far enough as new registers revealing who owns and controls companies would not be made public

Group of activists threatened to take legal action over proposed tightening of the rules, which would have left fewer people eligible for the top rate

Investigation by The Ecologist magazine and The Independent finds a growing number of farmers – including those whose own farms have been blighted by TB – are now questioning the nature of the cull and its likely effectiveness

Loyalists could have a future in a new Syria if they topple their President

It would be undemocratic and inappropriate not to have a Commons vote before the Government decided to arm rebel fighters in Syria, Speaker John Bercow said today.

74-year-old alleges authorities deliberately preventing names from being added to an e-petition calling for the release of official papers relating to the jailing of pickets

Ken Clarke has warned Eurosceptics that they risk wrecking the “biggest bilateral trade deal in history” by demanding the UK leave the EU.

Demonstrators in Edinburgh branded him 'racist, Nazi scum'

Britain secures agreement from 10 of its overseas territories and Crown dependencies to sign up to a new OECD standard on the exchange of tax information

Intelligence services were even said to have set up internet cafés at the summit venues which they used to read emails

David Cameron on Monday evening made a final attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar al-Assad.