British actor Mackenzie Crook, best known for playing Gareth in The Office, is shortlisted for this year's Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

Comedian Steve Coogan and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne are among the latest people to have settled their claims for damages over News of the World phone hacking.

Milly Dowler's killer is refused permission to appeal against his conviction for her kidnap and murder.

Harry Redknapp says his "nightmare" is over after being cleared of tax evasion along with Milan Mandaric.

Downing Street denies claims by Argentina that it is "militarising the South Atlantic", in a dispute about the Falkland Islands.

Low-earning women could be frozen out of a scheme to automatically enrol workers into a pension scheme, the TUC warns.

Police and coastguards try to trace the owners of a car found abandoned in waters off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway.

University-based training courses for secondary school teachers are facing an uncertain future, after hundreds were identified as "potentially unviable".