A commissioner for a body monitoring the London 2012 Olympics resigns over its links with Dow Chemical.

Nick Clegg says he wants the coalition government to go "further and faster" in raising the pay level at which people start paying income tax.

The US unveils a strategy at the Davos World Economic Forum to protect the global supply chain in the event of a terror attack or natural disaster.

Gloucestershire's police chief says further budget cuts would take the force to "a metaphorical cliff edge" as financial pressures are condemned by staff.

David Cameron will tell EU leaders they must be "bolder" if they want to shake off their economic troubles, saying "tinkering won't cut it any more".

Just one in 15 pupils in England starting secondary school "behind" for their age, gets five good GCSEs, official data shows.

Thirteen people are killed in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday.

Cash payments for scrap metal are to be outlawed and fines "significantly increased" to tackle the growing problem of metal theft, the home secretary says.