Food Bills May Rise Amid Growing Meat Tests

By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent Consumers are being warned that food bills may rise if high demand for meat testing continues. Since the start of the horsemeat scandal laboratories all over the UK have been inundated with requests to test...

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Thousands Face Benefits Cut From Bedroom Tax

By Emma Birchley, East of England Correspondent Thousands of families living in social housing are facing a cut in their benefits from April because they are seen to have too big a home. The under-occupation penalty, dubbed "the bedroom tax", aims...

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Eystna Blunnie Murder: Suspect 'Beat His Ex'

By Emma Birchley, East of England Correspondent An ex-girlfriend of murder suspect Tony McLernon has told a jury how he beat her so violently she was left with a fractured jaw and black eyes. Kimberly Mitchell was 14 when she started going out...

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New Support Centres Opened For Rape Victims

Rape and sexual assault victims will be able to seek help at four new support centres, the Government announced today. The new centres will open within the next year in Reading, Avon and Somerset, Lincolnshire and central Lancashire, bringing the total...

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Private Firms 'Better To Run Prisons', Report

Private firms are better at running prisons than the public sector and all jails should be subject to open competition, according to a think tank. The Government would be wrong to limit the role of private companies within prisons to small contracts,...

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Abuse Inquiry Uses Posters To Find Victims

By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent A state inquiry into historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland has taken the unprecedented step of posting billboards on bus stops to encourage survivors to come forward and give evidence. To date,...

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Oldham Blast: Man Jailed Over Toddler Death

By Becky Johnson, North of England Correspondent A man who blew up his house and killed a toddler who lived next door has been jailed for 10 years. Andrew Partington, 28, admitted the manslaughter of two-year-old Jamie Heaton who died when his...

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Older Women To Get IVF Treatment On The NHS

By Thomas Moore, Health and Science Correspondent The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has said women aged 40 to 42 will be allowed one cycle of IVF so long as it is their first attempt. Previously Nice only recommended...

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MPs: Tax Dodgers 'Should Be Named And Shamed'

Tax dodgers should be "named and shamed" to stop celebrities using legal loopholes to cut the amount they pay to the Treasury. The Public Accounts Committee says promoters of tax avoidance schemes are "running rings" around the taxman by taking advantage...

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Hilary Mantel: Kate Is A 'Plastic Princess'

Pregnant Kate: Baby Bump On Show Updated: 12:16am UK, Tuesday 19 February 2013 By Paul Harrison, Royal Correspondent Kate's baby bump will be on show for the first time in the UK later today as she visits a project for women recovering from substance...

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Stafford Hospital: Police Probe New Evidence

New evidence about the scandal at Stafford hospital is being examined by police and prosecutors that could lead to criminal charges, according to reports. Matthew Ellis, the police and crime commissioner for Staffordshire, said detectives were looking...

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FTSE 100 Firms' Legal Liabilities Shoot Up

The amount of money Britain's companies have set aside to cover regulatory and legal costs has shot up, according to legal publisher Sweet & Maxwell. It said the legal liabilities reported by the FTSE 100 companies jumped by 22% last year to £22.1bn...

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Home Secretary Pledges New Deportation Law

Home Secretary Theresa May is planning a new law to stop foreign criminals avoiding deportation, according to reports. She told the Sunday Telegraph that the actions of some immigration judges were "not acceptable" and that they were "subverting" British...

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Teenager Shot Dead In East London

A teenager has died and a man is fighting for his life after being shot in east London. The pair were shot in Hindrey Road, Clapton, east London, at 8.20pm on Saturday, Scotland Yard said. Paramedics took them to hospital where the younger victim,...

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