Gordon Brown has thrown the housing market a lifeline by offering homeowners facing repossession a mortgage interest holiday.
The BBC has been plunged into another crisis after Chris Moyles appeared to suggest Poles make good prostitutes. Poles living in the UK have now launched a petition demanding an apology.
A mother arrested over the death of her son may have had money problems, according to a neighbour. She is seriously ill in hospital after what is understood to have been an attempt to kill herself.
Commons Speaker Michael Martin and two of Britain's top police officers have been left fighting for their jobs as it emerged anti-terror police 'unlawfully' raided Parliament without a warrant.
A street cleaner who found a bag containing £10,000 in cut-up bank notes has been told he can keep the money - if he can piece it together again. Graham Hill found himself with the ultimate jigsaw when he discovered a carrier bag stuff with pieces of bank notes while emptying litter bins. ...read
Companies will be free to discriminate in favour of women and black job candidates under proposed ‘equality’ laws.
Supermarket drink promotions enjoyed by millions of responsible customers are to be banned.
Blizzards and drifting snow are expected to wreak havoc across large parts of Britain tomorrow as the spell of Arctic weather tightens its grip.
The majority of homeowners will not save a penny on their mortgage if the Bank of England slashes rates again.
A woman who knocked down and killed a 15-month-old boy in a pushchair had been trying to commit suicide, it was claimed in court today.
A mother left horrifically injured when a carjacker mowed her down with her own car was left fighting for life 'for nothing'.
The Culture Club singer has gained so much weight since his Eighties heyday that he would allegedly not have stood a chance in a fight against his alleged victim Audun Carlsen.
A primary school infuriated parents after cancelling the traditional Christmas nativity play to make way for the Muslim fesival of Eid.
A feral teenage girl who stabbed a man in the neck and then told friends 'just let him die' was jailed for life for murder today.
One of the Siamese twins born to a teenager last week has died - and doctors say her sister has just a 50 per cent chance of survival.
The boss of the ‘Winter Blunderland’ Christmas theme park that has attracted thousands of complaints is a convicted tax fraudster, it has emerged. Victor Mears, who runs Lapland New Forest with his younger brother, was sentenced to three years in jail in 1986 after admitting failing to pay £500,000 in VAT. At the time he was serving a four-year sentence for tax evasion.
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