A man has been arrested after a message was posted on Facebook threatening to bomb a mosque.

A Conservative MP apologised yesterday after it emerged he had attended a stag party with friends who chanted Nazi slogans while one of them wore an SS uniform.

Efforts to encourage whistle-blowers to expose abuse, neglect and poor care in the NHS are falling on deaf ears, a survey has found.

Theatre to stoke the fires of hope

Unmanned drones with surveillance cameras will fly above London during next year's Olympic Games as the Metropolitan Police tries to increase the number of "eyes in the sky" available to officers.

Images of a "visual odyssey" by photographer Paul Hill across the Peak District between 1978 and 1990 are on show in London for the first time in 20 years.

What's the most unusual way you've paid for a book? A few days ago, I bought one for the use of my shower, from Sarah Henshaw and her Book Barge. Henshaw is touring Britain's waterways for six months on her pretty, custom-fitted narrowboat, trading tomes for all the necessities of life – including food, washing facilities and a bed on dry land. When I met her she had moored her barge in east London and, tired of washing her hair in pub toilets, she was keen to barter for my bathroom.

The online retailing giant Amazon is to create 900 jobs at a new processing centre in Rugeley, Staffordshire. The plan comes on top of earlier moves by Amazon to set up a 1 million sq ft fulfilment centre in Dunfermline, and a new customer service centre in Edinburgh.

Labour gained in the latest council by-elections taking seats from Tory and independent councillors.

The father of a suspected burglar who was stabbed to death after an attempted break-in has said he hoped he would have the "guts" to defend his property.

A man stabbed to death during an alleged break-in was already on bail for burglary, police sources confirmed today.