Communities in England were today offered £17 million to help them take advantage of a new scheme allowing them to build facilities like family homes, shops, children's playgrounds and community halls.

A drunken passenger who hurled persistent racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers in a tirade that became an internet sensation has been jailed for a total of 21 weeks.

A 19-year-old has been found guilty of murdering a budding teenage athlete.

It’s London’s turn to host the biggest sporting event on the planet and while there’s a lot to live up to after Beijing’s spectacular success four years ago, the signs so far suggest a vintage Olympic year is ahead.

The policy of rehousing people hundreds of miles away from their homes to deal with housing benefit caps has been scrapped in one north London borough.

Fiddling expenses is a crime, as not a few MPs and several peers have discovered. Nor is it just the scale of the fraud that determines the existence of a crime, though it plays a role in setting the penalty. It is the principle: the claiming of money – in these cases, public money – to which someone is not entitled. Now Baroness Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party and the country's first woman Muslim cabinet minister, finds herself in the frame.

In our series celebrating Great Britain's feats, David Faulkner, who set up the third goal, remembers triumph over the West Germans

Hello, New Yorkers, if you're there. In a few weeks you'll welcome to your streets 10,000 bicycles that will make you, says your fellow New Yorker, the writer David Byrne, "rethink your city and rewrite the mental maps you use to decide what is... possible."

When did cooking get so cool? Tim Walker traces the rise of the hip young panslingers

Under-pressure Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi today referred herself to the Lords Commissioner for Standards amid allegations over her expenses.

Around 70 firefighters are tackling a blaze at a factory today.

Tube passengers endured further travel misery today, with severe delays on three Underground lines.

The Fiction Uncovered prize is an unusual one, in that it selects eight titles instead of one winner each year. Its remit is quite simple: to “uncover and celebrate our best British writers”.