A points failure caused the Potters Bar train crash which killed seven people, an inquest jury decides.

The chancellor says the MoD, not the Treasury, will have to pay £20bn to renew the nuclear deterrent, putting extra pressure on the defence budget.

Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, is granted bail.

The widow of a man believed to have been killed by the IRA in 1981 said she felt sad but relieved that her husband's remains appeared to have been found.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service says it has had to issue staff with protective clothing after urine was "aimed at them" in a jail protest.

Hundreds of UK soldiers launch an operation to clear Taliban insurgents from a key stronghold in southern Afghanistan.

A naked woman is injured after falling through a building roof in Aberdeen city centre.

Pictures of 14 suspected rioters are released by police investigating trouble in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

Britain's Jessica Ennis gets her bid for European heptathlon gold off to a strong start by winning the 100m hurdles and the high jump events in Barcelona.

The family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan pay tribute ahead of his funeral, calling him "brave, courageous and loyal".

Two British women are among six people killed when their tourist bus crashed near the Dead Sea in Jordan.

The intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat was "not very substantial", former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott says.

The tug of war, croquet and cricket have all featured as Olympic sports in Games gone by, with two years to go until the London Olympics we chart all those sports that have come and gone in over a century of competition.

Ministers are to set out options for "radical reform" of the benefits system and moving people from welfare into work.

BA reveals a steep quarterly loss of £164m after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.

Police say a man who was murdered in Glasgow had been attacked by several people who tried to steal his alcohol.

The committee conducting the official Iraq war inquiry says it intends to visit the country later this year.

The reasons behind the sudden departure of S4C's chief executive should be made public, says the channel's former head.

Are family holidays worth all the hassle?

A policeman is arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who died after a Merseyside pub fight, thought to have started over a spilt pint.

Three ex-Labour MPs and an ex-Tory peer lose appeals over a ruling that they are not protected from prosecution by parliamentary privilege over expenses fraud allegations.

A 28-year-old man is arrested in connection with the murder of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Glasgow.

Labour's Ed Miliband claims the coalition government was "built on a series of untruths" after revelations in a BBC documentary.

The public will be able to veto their council tax bills in England if charges are above an agreed limit, ministers will announce.

England are on the hunt for Pakistan wickets after collapsing to 354 all out on day two at Trent Bridge.