Armed teams of British Transport Police (BTP) are to patrol the railways and London Underground to counter the terrorist threat, the Government announced today.

Tributes were paid today to an aspiring teenage model killed by a train yards from her home.

A woman died in a fire inside a train toilet yesterday afternoon.

Private security guards are gaining limited policing powers today under a Government scheme to relieve the petty crime burden on forces.

British Transport Police (BTP) may get armed response units, after the chairman of its officers' federation said it could not rely on receiving firearms support from other forces for long-term terror threats.

A bloodied gunshot victim left train passengers horrified as he staggered on to a carriage moments after being attacked, police said today.

An investigation is under way after a woman was struck by a train early today.

Radios used by police on July 7 were branded "inadequate" two years before the atrocity but nothing was done to upgrade them, an inquest heard today.

The 7/7 rescue operation was hampered by problems that were identified but not tackled after the King's Cross fire 18 years earlier, an inquest heard today.

A teenager was fatally stabbed 24 times in a frenzied knife attack by a mob of youths who ambushed him at a bus stop, detectives said tonight.

The 7/7 bus explosion sent a massive "chimney" of grey smoke billowing into the air, laden with debris and human body parts, an inquest heard today.

Two Britons have died in a helicopter crash in the south of France, the Foreign Office said today.

More than 3,000 of the most experienced police officers could be forced to retire early under a legal loophole, figures showed today.

Police and recovery teams were today preparing to remove the wreckage of a 26-tonne cement mixer that plunged on to a train carriage.