A baby whose body parts were found in a sewage treatment works was recently born prematurely, police said today.

What is it that enables us to survive and what renders us "incapable of functioning"? In his poignant story of a blind man groping his way, alone, through the darkest of places, Tamas Dobozy explores complex "intersections of need". At the heart of other pieces is not the functioning of an individual but a city itself, such as in Rana Dasgupta's tale of Delhi.

He was, they kept telling us, an ordinary man, a plumber from Somerset who tended his vegetables and fed chickens. But at Harry Patch's funeral yesterday huge crowds lined the streets, many of them teenagers – which is what Harry was when he went to war in the trenches in 1916.

Residents of a city centre apartment complex had a lucky escape today when a building crane and five-ton weight smashed through it.

With a long, hot summer predicted, there’s no better moment to catch a wave. Rhiannon Batten offers the experts' guide to golden sands and clear blue seas

As Mandelson's reputation grows, the Prime Minister's sinks. Week by week he gets worse. Dedicated to straightforwardness, honesty, integrity and transparency, Gordon Cack of Cackmanshire turns everything he touches to the eponymous substance.

Workers at a water company are to stage a 24-hour strike and a work to rule in a dispute over pay, it was announced today.