Council chiefs at the authority responsible for protecting tragic toddler Baby P were sacked today after a damning report into its failings in the months before he died. Head of children's services at Haringey Council Sharon Shoesmith, pictured, was immediately removed from her £100,000 position.
The political storm over the arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green intensified today after police vowed to push ahead with their inquiry, raising the possibility of further arrests.
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The BBC was engulfed in another decency row today after one of its highest profile stars exposed himself live on air. Doctor Who actor John Barrowman revealed himself in a pre-watershed Radio 1 show which was also broadcast online via a webcam. A producer hastily covered the webcam when Barrowman, 41, unzipped his flies after being prompted by The Switch presenters Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw. ...read
A banker is set to become the world's first 'affordable' space tourist. Per Wimmer will tomorrow be announced as the first customer of private space tourism company Xcor.
Muslim peer Lord Ahmed today admitted sending and receiving text messages while driving on a motorway just before he was involved in a crash in which a man died.
An 11-year-old boy was killed after being hit twice in a hit and run outside a branch of Ikea, police revealed today.
Household bills could rise by a quarter if Britain is to meet its greenhouse gas reduction target, the Government’s top global warming adviser warned today.
Labour's public sector spending has created a wave of 'Soviet' boroughs where around half the population depends on the state for work, figures have revealed.
Britain was hit by a raft of downbeat economic news today fuelling fears about the depth of the UK recession.
When Santa got stuck up a chimney, there was no fire service on hand to give him help.
A large explosion has rocked an industrial estate just west of London.
A judge has condemned an apparent police assault on a soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A father-of-two has been hauled into court after breaking a law which dates back to the 1880s by lighting a village bonfire.
A cheating wife 'lured her husband to his death' in a Pakistan hotel room, a court heard today. Yasira Pervez, 24, and her lover Ian Priddle, 46, allegedly murdered Khurum Mukhtar, 21, by stabbing him to death at the Comfort Inn Hotel in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The court heard Priddle's 'presence in Pakistan was in order to see off his rival for the attentions of Yasira Pervez'.
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