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?

The announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant caused huge levels of excitement… among newspaper editors. Luke Blackall rates their Kate levels

Yesterday Kelvin MacKenzie announced he has instructed his solicitors to demand an "apology and recompense" from South Yorshire Police over the newspaper's discredited reporting of the Hillsborough disaster.

Birmingham's highly-rated teenage goalkeeper Jack Butland is desperate for regular first-team football with the club next year.

By the start of the 21st century it seemed that readability had become a liability; surely award-winners lacked complexity if their books were too accessible? Happily this attitude is now passing, and lucid writing is once more being recognised as a desirable literary trait, which may partly explain why Pamela Hansford Johnson's work is coming back into print (the other reason is that ebooks provide an affordable route to republication).

Media tycoon's company pays £1m to cancel his order for a £36m private jet after drop in profits