More than 200,000 11-year-olds quit primary school every year unable to swim, according to a report out today.

Tributes poured in yesterday for a teenage girl who was killed in a campsite tragedy, thought to have been caused by a disposable barbecue.

A teenage girl has died at a campsite and three other people were taken to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.

A teenage girl has died at a campsite and three other people have been taken to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.

Detectives were continuing today to question a 48-year-old man arrested following a siege in central London.

You write "Teachers do not always know best" (leading article, 6 April); so who knows better? As a retired teacher, whose family has served state education continuously since the late 1800s, and with a brother and sister-in-law both primary heads and a daughter teaching in a secondary school, I believe that my experience enables me to have an opinion.

A pregnant woman has described how she was left "terrified" by machete-wielding burglars who tied her to a chair after threatening her three-year-old son.

During the warm-up ahead of Manchester United's victory over Wolves at Molineux earlier this month, Wayne Rooney inadvertently broke the wrist of a nine-year-old boy.

Our world is a frantic, intellectually combustible place. Opinions are 10 a penny in the age of Twitter. Mature reflection does not play a major part in public discourse. Knee-jerk reaction?

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has apologised to a nine-year-old football fan after he fired a stray shot into the crowd which broke the youngster's wrist.

It is one of the oldest pursuits and Team GB have a real veteran to help young sharpshooter

Showman's Wagon, Shropshire

A motorist has been injured after a concrete block was dropped on his car from a bridge.

A motorist spoke today of his lucky escape after a concrete slab was dropped onto his car from a bridge.