More than 1,000 police officers will be on the streets to ensure the showpiece event of the football season - the FA Cup - passes off peacefully.

Gordon Brown will address a church gathering where Margaret Thatcher set out her political philosophy 20 years ago.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accused Burma's government of "inhuman" treatment of Cyclone Nargis survivors for its refusal to allow aid to get through.

A six-year-old girl was killed in a hit-and-run crash when she was knocked down by van, police have said.

The mother of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen has vowed she will not let bitterness destroy her family.

A man has been charged with attempted wounding with intent on the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe at Broadmoor hospital, police have said.

The husband of award-winning make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens has appeared in court charged with her murder.

A former Archbishop of Canterbury has appealed to the group holding the five "forgotten" British hostages kidnapped in Baghdad.

A murder inquiry has been launched after an 81-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her home.

Peter Phillips, the Queen's eldest grandson, will marry his fiancee Autumn Kelly in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

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