Foiled Car Bomb Attempt In Belfast Condemned

An apparent attempt to kill a policeman in Northern Ireland with a car bomb was an attack on the entire community, Stormont's Justice Minister has insisted. Police have blamed dissident republicans for placing the booby trap device under the officer's...

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Revellers Get Ready For New Year Knees Up

Spectacular shows of fireworks and entertainment will take place across the globe as revellers welcome in the new year. A dazzling display of pyrotechnics and lights is set to illuminate London's night sky to round-off a momentous year in the capital...

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Alan Greaves Murder: Two Arrests In Sheffield

Police have arrested two men over the murder of pensioner Alan Greaves, who was attacked as he walked to church in Sheffield on Christmas Eve. The 68-year-old was found with head injuries on the pavement close to his home on Greengate Lane at around...

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Cameron: Britain 'On Right Track' For 2013

By Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent David Cameron has used his New Year's message to declare that Britain is "heading in the right direction" on all the big issues and can look forward to 2013 with "realism and optimism". In a video address,...

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Bradley Wiggins Knighted In New Year Honours

By Ian Woods, Senior News Correspondent Britain's gold rush during the London Olympic and Paralympic Games has led to 78 athletes and coaches being named in the New Year Honours List. Among the top honours are knighthoods for cyclist Bradley Wiggins...

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Abducted Atiya Back With 'Overwhelmed' Mum

Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson is back with her mother in Greater Manchester three years after being abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan. The six-year-old flew into Manchester Airport on Friday night on a Pakistan International Airlines flight from...

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Weather: Downpours To Bring Yet More Flooding

Large parts of Britain are braced for yet more flooding with heavy rain forecast on Friday and Saturday. Just under two inches of rain are needed by Monday for 2012 to be the wettest year on record for the UK overall. A new record has already been...

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Norfolk Car Crash: Two Young Girls Killed

Two girls aged seven and 10 have been killed and three other people injured after a car crash in Norfolk, police have said. The children were in a car along with two adults and another child which crashed on the A47 near Wisbech at 6.40pm, according...

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Knife Crime: Funding To Tackle Youth Violence

By Niall Paterson, Sky News Correspondent The government has announced extra cash to help tackle youth violence and gun crime. Half a million pounds will be given to the voluntary sector, charities and other organisations working directly with...

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Child Abuse: New Database Of Medical Visits

By Liz Lane, Sky News Reporter A national database is being introduced in hospitals to flag up potential vulnerable children to nurses and doctors. It is in order to prevent cases similar to that of Baby Peter Connelly in which health and social...

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Queen And Royals Attend Christmas Day Service

Transcript Of The Queen's Broadcast Updated: 4:35pm UK, Tuesday 25 December 2012 This past year has been one of great celebration for many. The enthusiasm which greeted the Diamond Jubilee was, of course, especially memorable for me and my family....

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M6 Car Crash Killed Two Young Brothers

Two victims of the three people killed after a car flipped over on the M6 motorway on Christmas Day were brothers, aged four and 10. The third victim of the accident on a busy stretch of the motorway in Staffordshire was a 32-year-old woman. The boys'...

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Floods: UK To Remain On Alert For Another Week

Showers could bring more flooding woes for parts of rain-battered Britain this Christmas. Hundreds of homes and businesses have been swamped with floodwaters as winter rain continues to fall across saturated land. The Environment Agency (EA) said widespread...

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Christmas Day Online Sales Surge Predicted

Bargain season begins in force today as online retailers slash prices ahead of an expected onslaught of consumers hitting the high street for the traditional Boxing Day sales. Amazon's UK website said it had seen sales on Christmas Day increase by 263%...

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Queen To Hail Olympics In 3D Xmas Message

Monarch's Message: From Radio To 3D Updated: 4:41am UK, Monday 24 December 2012 The Queen's grandfather, King George V, delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast live on the radio from Sandringham more than 75 years ago. He had reigned since 1910,...

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Adoption System To Be 'More Swift And Robust'

Plans to overhaul the adoption process in a bid to find homes for 4,000 children currently on a national register have been unveiled by the Government. Potential adopters will be given a "more active role" in selecting a child and granted the same maternity...

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Teen's Rape Heard By Mother Over The Phone

Police are hunting a man who raped a teenage girl in an attack that was overheard by her mother who had phoned her daughter. The 15-year-old girl was threatened with a four-inch knife in Elswick, Newcatle upon Tyne, about 8.50pm on Tuesday. She was...

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Hospital's £400,000 Payout Over Care Failings

A hospital has apologised and paid out more than £400,000 for 38 cases of failings in patient care. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was "disgusted and appalled" at the accounts of suffering and neglect at Redditch's Alexandra Hospital. Health...

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Retailers Geared Up For 'Busiest Day'

By Tadhg Enright, Business Correspondent As the last full shopping day before Christmas Eve, today is expected to be the busiest day of the year on high streets and in shopping centres. The British Retail Consortium expects between £4bn and £5bn...

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School Shooting: Tributes To British Victim

The family of a six-year-old British boy killed in the Sandy Hook shootings have paid tribute to their "joyous" son at his funeral. Dylan Hockley was one of 20 children shot dead by gunman Adam Lanza at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut,...

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Women Drivers Face Insurance Premium Rise

By Darren McCaffrey, Sky Reporter Women drivers could see insurance premiums increase by around 25% as new laws come into force that ban setting prices according to gender. Researchers believe it could force nearly a quarter of women drivers to...

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CRB Check Rules To Be Relaxed By Home Office

Millions of employees and volunteers will no longer have to apply for a new criminal records check every time they apply for a job, the Home Office announced today. Individuals will only need to apply once to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)...

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Energy Bill Breakdown Demanded By MPs

Energy firms should be forced to inform every customer what proportion of their bills will contribute to the supplier's profits, MPs are demanding. The cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee called for householders to be given a breakdown of...

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Man Charged With NI Prison Officer Murder

A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black. Mr Black, 52, was shot as he drove to work on a motorway in Co Armagh on November 1. Dissident republicans claimed responsibility. A spokeswoman for...

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Newsnight Savile Report: Inquiry Findings Due

The findings of an inquiry into Newsnight's shelving of a report into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile are due to be published. Top BBC executives and journalists on the flagship current affairs show have given evidence, some under questioning from a QC,...

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Hillsborough Inquests Set To Be Quashed

By Nick Martin, Sky News Correspondent An application to quash the original Hillsborough inquest verdicts is due to be heard at the High Court today. Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who will put forward the application, said the main basis for...

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Hospital Surgery At Weekends Under NHS Plans

By Becky Johnson, Sky Correspondent Routine operations, scans and consultations could be set to take place on weekends under new proposed changes to the NHS. The plans are part of a raft of measures being discussed by the new NHS Commissioning...

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HMIP Care Report: 'Distressing' Findings

Up to 3,000 vulnerable children are being failed by a care system that has seen sex attackers placed with abuse victims and a third of children moved 100 miles from home, inspectors say. A report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) has...

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Bradley Wiggins Is Sports Personality Of Year

Tour de France champion and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The 32-year-old cyclist was presented with the trophy by the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, who was making her first public appearance...

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Kate In First Public Engagement Since Hospital

Wiggins Sports Personality Of Year Updated: 11:40pm UK, Sunday 16 December 2012 Tour de France champion and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The 32-year-old cyclist was presented with the...

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Norovirus: Hospitals Shut Doors To Visitors

Hospitals across the country are closing their doors to visitors because of outbreaks of the winter vomiting bug norovirus. Birmingham City Hospital has asked visitors to stay away after closing four wards while at Maidstone Hospital in Kent three wards...

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Royal Prank Call Nurse's Family 'Shattered'

The children of the nurse found dead days after taking a prank call say they are "shattered" by their loss. Jacintha Saldanha was discovered in a nurses' accommodation block close to King Edward VII's Hospital, London, where the Duchess of Cambridge...

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Connors Family Found Guilty Of Forced Labour

Five members of the same traveller family who made their staff perform humiliating tasks have been found guilty of forced labour. William Connors, 52, his wife Mary, 48, their sons John, 29, and James, 20, and their son-in-law Miles Connors, 24, were...

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Witches Coven: Child Sex Abuse Pair Jailed

Two men have been jailed for a total of 32 years after sexually abusing several children as part of a witches' coven in Cornwall during the 1970s. Peter Petrauske, 72, and Jack Kemp, 69, were said to have donned ceremonial robes and pagan paraphernalia...

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Savile Revelations Spark NSPCC Abuse Campaign

The NSPCC has launched a campaign in a bid to prevent people thinking sexual abuse is a problem from the past following the Jimmy Savile abuse revelations. The children's charity is worried that due to many of Savile's victims being abused in the 1970s...

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