The news that Margaret Thatcher’s old nemesis, Michael Heseltine, will be at her funeral is an excuse to replay the story that the Tory MP Conor Burns told the Commons a couple of years ago.

More than 100 Conservative MPs challenged David Cameron yesterday to accelerate his promise to hold a referendum on loosening Britain's ties with the European Union.

It seems that Tory and Lib Dem party managers have come up with an ingenious way of making tired peers stay late for crunch votes in the House of Lords.

Jazz trumpeter Kenny Ball died in hospital this morning where he was being treated for pneumonia, his manager said.

65 firefighters with fifteen appliances tackle blaze with a pall that can be seen for miles

Out of date medicines were found by the Care Quality Commission inspectors - a visit triggered by several serious clinical incidents including the death of a little girl following a suspected drug error

A hospice has apologised after a member of staff threatened to withhold care from a member of the public in a row over a planning application.

A police officer whose "irresponsible driving" left a colleague with severe brain damage has admitted careless driving.

A council will take no further action against protesters arrested during the clearance of Europe's largest illegal travellers' site.

The Government is seeking a High Court injunction to prevent border staff taking strike action on the eve of the Olympics, the Home Office said tonight.

A council is preparing to take fresh action after travellers removed from Europe's largest illegal site moved to a neighbouring settlement.

Firefighters staged the latest in a series of strikes today in a long-running row over cuts.

The police were blocked from seizing television footage yesterday, in a landmark High Court ruling to protect "the neutrality of the press".