A lifeboat volunteer says that some visitors to Holy Island seem to think it is all right to drive their cars into the sea.

Jessica Ennis continues her path to full form with a decent display at the Northern Athletics Outdoor Championships in Manchester.

Ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali denies all charges against him on the eve of the start of his trial in absentia.

Government plans to make women wait longer for their state pension will be debated in the Commons later.

The world's largest falcon spends much of its life at sea, the first bird of its type known to do so.

Brazilian security forces occupy one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest slums in a crackdown on crime ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

Police investigating a fire at an historic country house hotel in Cheshire make an arrest while fire crews remain at the scene.

The father of a teenager killed in a Greek nightclub four years ago says he is still unsure whether to appeal a court's decision to clear a man over his death.