DAVID Cameron was embroiled in a war of words with Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband today after the parties hammered out a deal on a new system of press regulation and Cyprus has postponed its parliamentary vote on a bank deposits levy by a day.
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David Cameron was embroiled in a war of words with Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband today after the parties hammered out a deal on a new system of press regulation. The Prime Minister insisted the agreement on a royal charter, struck in the early hours of this morning, avoided the need for a law to control newspapers.
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A woman accused of killing her six children in a house fire has told a jury her husband was her "guardian angel". Mairead Philpott told Nottingham Crown Court she was a 19-year-old single mother and at "rock bottom" when she met her husband, Michael.
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Pope Francis diplomatic skills have been put to the test at a meeting with Argentine president Cristina Kirchner. As leader of Argentinas Catholics, he had once accused her populist government of demagoguery while she called his position on gay adoptions reminiscent of the Middle Ages and the Inquisition.
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Cyprus has postponed its parliamentary vote on a bank deposits levy by a day. Yiannakis Omirou, the speaker of parliament, said the delay was needed to give the government time to amend an international bailout deal agreed on last week.
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A Labour MP whose stolen mobile phone was accessed by a newspaper today became the latest high-profile figure to settle a damages claim relating to the hacking scandal. Siobhain McDonagh, who has represented Mitcham and Morden since 1997, accepted "very substantial" damages and a public apology from The Sun at a hearing at the High Court in London today over the "serious misuse of her private information".
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The mother of a supremely courageous and inspiring soldier awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his valour in Afghanistan said today she missed him and his smile so much . Lance Corporal James Ashworth, 23, will receive the medal in recognition of his "extraordinary courage" while serving with the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards in Helmand province last year.
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A father tumbled to his death as he frantically searched for his son who had fallen 300 metres while they were hiking in the French Alps, police believe. The bodies of Peter Saunders, 48, and son Charlie, 12, were found by rescue services near Mont Blanc yesterday morning.
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Are You Being Served? actor Frank Thornton died in his sleep in the early hours of Saturday morning at the age of 92, his agent David Daly has said. The star was famous for his role as Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and as Truly in Last Of The Summer Wine.
