The state should help fund places for bright children from poor backgrounds at the best private schools, an education charity has said.

Border staff turned back lone children who failed to claim asylum on arrival at UK ports, under a secret deal with France, it has emerged.

Education watchdog Ofsted wants to toughen the language of inspections in England - changing the "satisfactory" rating to "requires improvement".

The NHS is facing a time bomb if it does not get to grips with neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease, campaigners say.

China's economy, the world's second-largest, grew at its slowest pace in more than two years, latest government figures show.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada wins his appeal against deportation from the UK to Jordan to face terror charges, at the European Court of Human Rights.

Two men who murdered their wives fail in a bid to overturn their convictions in a challenge based on new murder laws, but a third gets a new trial.

John Burnside wins the TS Eliot poetry prize, from which two poets controversially withdrew last month in protest at sponsorship by an investment firm.