Non-internet users may be denied information about candidates seeking election as police commissioners, warns the Electoral Commission.

A government-appointed committee says access to finance for businesses needs to be improved and warns of a £190bn funding gap over the next five years.

A Standard Chartered Bank employee is detained by Chinese authorities as part of a probe against one of her clients.

A British boy is among 28 people - 22 of them children - killed when a coach hit the wall of a Swiss tunnel returning from a school skiing trip.

An elderly man who died unnoticed in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital A&E unit had spent more than 20 hours on a trolley.

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife pay their respects to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks during a visit to Ground Zero in New York.

Paddington Bear is voted the UK's favourite animated character of all time at the British Animation Awards in London.

TV cooking show MasterChef announces its 2012 champion, with hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode praising the winner as a "very special cook".