Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the Government's plan to give struggling homeowners a two-year mortgage payment holiday would make people "feel more secure in the downturn".

A British soldier has died in southern Iraq after suffering a gunshot wound to the head, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

Nearly a million innocent people could have their records removed from the national DNA database after a court ruled holding them breached their human rights.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has defended the decision to call in the police to investigate leaks from the Home Office.

Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes staged a courtroom protest - just minutes before jurors were sent out to consider their verdicts.

A baby girl remains seriously ill in hospital after her conjoined twin died following emergency surgery to separate them.

A Christmas Lapland style attraction dubbed a "glorified car boot sale" by disgruntled visitors has closed.

Four teddies have taken a giant leap for bear-kind after being blasted to the edge of space by university boffins.

The mother of Shannon Matthews has been condemned as "pure evil" and told she faces a substantial jail sentence after being found guilty of kidnapping her own daughter.

Interest rates stand at their lowest level since 1951 after the Bank of England took more drastic action to prop up the UK economy.

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