A former government minister claimed parliamentary expenses of more than £16,000 for interest on a mortgage on his second home after the loan had been paid off, it has been reported.Read
A Labour MP declared his mother's London home as his main residence while claiming thousands of pounds in parliamentary second home allowances for the house in his constituency where his family lived, it has emerged.Read
A man has been given a life sentence for the murder of a football fan mown down following a Premier League derby match in "a dreadful act of revenge".Read
The alleged killer of two French students tried to burgle the home of an EastEnders actress hours before the brutal murders, the Old Bailey has heard.Read
MPs must prove themselves "worthy of the public's trust" in the wake of the Westminster expenses scandal, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has declared.Read
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has pledged to "come down like a ton of bricks" on any of his MPs caught abusing the expenses system as fresh revelations were published about claims by himself and his Parliamentary colleagues.Read
The escalating conflict between Pakistan's army and the Taliban is expected to be top of the agenda as Gordon Brown holds talks with the Pakistani president in London.Read
It has been the Liberal Democrats' turn under the expenses spotlight with revelations that one of the party's MPs claimed for a second home used by his student daughter.Read
MPs have called for an urgent competition investigation into the pub industry amid fears that ties between pub firms and licensees are forcing up prices for drinkers.Read
Cabinet minister Hazel Blears has vowed to rebuild her reputation after promising to pay £13,332 in capital gains tax she escaped when she sold one of her homes.Read
More than a million expenses claims by MPs over the past four years are to be scrutinised independently in a desperate bid to restore trust in politics.Read
Complaints that a milk advert was racist because it showed a white bull getting "purer" by losing its black patches have been dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).Read
A soldier with the 1st Battalion, The Welsh Guards, has died in the UK with his family by his bedside after being shot in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.Read
