Dean Richards' return to rugby's top table was confirmed last night after Newcastle posted a 49-33 aggregate Championship play-off victory over Bedford Blues.

Newcastle moved a step closer to a return to the Premiership after claiming an 18-9 lead over Bedford in the first leg of their Championship final.

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

As many as two million schoolchildren are susceptible to measles due to their lack of the MMR vaccine scare, a leading health expert has warned.

O'Sullivan has been on sabbatical

Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has been remanded in custody after appearing at Cardiff magistrates' court to face child sex abuse allegations.

After his exploits in India, Alastair Cook is about to go from ordinary local lad to global celebrity

Dickens, the Bloomsbury group and two tales of a city

An elderly couple have accidentally grown a huge cannabis plant, described by police as the largest they have ever seen.

The Duke and Duchess were both in TV ads, she for hair gel, he for Flash and Jaffa Cakes

News of the agonising decision facing poor old Theo Walcott – the Arsenal player who can barely sleep at night, worrying whether he might sell himself catastrophically short by signing a new contract worth a mere £75,000 a week – puts the second tier of English rugby and its business model into some kind of perspective.

If you build it they will come, but they might be a bit of a shock

The Heathrow Express rail service was shut down today, causing travel misery for passengers flying into London on the eve of the Olympics.

Britain's heptathlon gold-medal hope chooses another small meet to tune long jump and javelin