Highlights of the Ashes Tests and ‘Big Brother’ have helped the broadcaster overtake C4

The Duchess of Cambridge has gone into labour and already the media feeding frenzy has begun, with a clamour of royal ‘experts’, baby speculation and an army of information about the illustrious infant sprayed across the world’s news outlets.

Does Britain need more immigrants? After months of political grandstanding on the need to let fewer people into the country, The Office for Budget Responsibility has marched debate in the opposite direction - saying Britain needs 6 million more to avoid falling into even greater debt.

Non-EU migrants entering the UK will have £200 added to the cost of their visas as a payment for any healthcare they may receive while in the country, under a bill proposed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Maria Miller, the Culture Secretary is going through a bad patch. She appeared on Today on Monday to talk about the Government’s plans to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the 1914-18 war.

Reporting on this sadistic murder allows us to see - and see through - its perpetrators

Newspaper groups have unified behind a softened version of a Royal Charter on future press regulation by agreeing to drop a proposal which would have given them a veto over appointments to a new watchdog body.

Six concerned parents, members of a group calling themselves 'Letzgo Hunting', posed online as underage girls

Thatcher’s mother is conspicuously absent from the Baroness’s memoirs

Some comedians make a living being offensive. If people really found their jokes so awful, surely they wouldn't want them shared any further?

A Royal Charter is a middle way between statutory regulation and nothing

Ministers order consultation amid questions over amount given to good causes

Does the Twitter mob now set the rules on fair comment?