The Social Network and The King's Speech dominate the London Film Critics' Circle awards, where the former is named film of the year.

Peter Stringer is added to Ireland's squad for Sunday's Six Nations game against France because of doubts over Tomas O'Leary's fitness.

An official announcement is due about which football club will take over the Olympic Stadium in east London after next year's Games.

The system for calculating most domestic fuel bills in the UK is contributing to thousands of deaths each winter, public health experts say.

Nearly half of all children in England are not reaching what teachers say is a good level of development by the age of five.

A painting of Bacon's friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud went for three times the pre-sale estimate at Sotheby's in London.

A mother who claims her baby daughter was wrongly taken into care takes her case to the European Courts.

A coroner urges kayakers to be better prepared after recording accidental deaths on two people in separate incidents off Anglesey.