Scottish publisher DC Thomson this week announced The Dandy, its famous comic, could close as the firm tries to cut losses.

The success of the Olympics can “turbo-charge” the UK's tourism industry, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said as the Government prepared to launch a major push to attract visitors.

Prime Minister David Cameron has intervened personally to help a 12-year-old boy who wrote him a letter last year pleading for help after his family allegedly took and kept him in Qatar under false pretences, Downing Street confirmed today.

Olympic rowing champion Pete Reed got engaged at the London 2012 closing ceremony.

The pocket magazine Lilliput is usually considered (if anybody considers it at all anymore) a quirky Bloomsbury amusement for clubbable gentlemen. Each cover featured a man, a woman and a terrier, and inside were tasteful photographs of naked ladies interspersed with fiction from some genuinely superb authors. It was responsible for bringing these writers to wider audiences, one of whom was Barbara Comyns Carr (nee Bayley).

British men's hockey squad can deliver a boost to their drive to reach the same funding levels as the nation's women if they pull off a shock win over the world game's top nation, Australia, in today's bronze medal game.

The Liberal Democrats will select their candidates to fight the next election on the basis of current Westminster constituencies, it emerged yesterday, in the wake of Nick Clegg's pledge to veto boundary change.

"So when did you realise you had a natural talent for kicking people in the head?" Hazel Irvine asked Team GB's Taekwondo gold medal winner Jade Jones on yesterday morning's BBC Olympic Breakfast. The men in the studio chortled, but smiles aside, this is plainly what Jones excels at.

Patience and Bithell, and Mills and Clark earn medals to crown successful campaign

He once fought for his right to party, and in death Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch is fighting to protect his music and image out of the hands of advertisers.

Sparks are flying in the US presidential campaign over a television spot sponsored by a group supporting Barack Obama that features a former steel worker implicitly blaming Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, for the death of his wife from cancer.

Campaign ad implicitly blaming Romney for wife's cancer death is causing a furore

Disability groups in France are calling for a boycott of some Babybel cheese following accusations that a promotional summer toy insults the mentally ill.

The governing body of British hockey is making an ambitious push to capitalize on one of the surprise hits of the Olympics, with a recruitment drive under way which focuses substantially on the nation’s women.