The British Chambers of Commerce increases its forecast for UK growth for 2012 but still expects the economy to shrink.

A Dutch man has died after being kicked and punched by three teenage football players for whom he acted as linesman during their Sunday league match.

Three people, including a child, are seriously injured in a collision involving a train and a car on a level crossing in South Yorkshire.

The officer in charge of the police operation at Belfast City Hall has denied police were caught "on the hop" by rioting.

MP Ann Clwyd breaks down as she describes the "coldness, resentment, indifference and contempt" of some nurses who treated her husband before he died.

A terrapin which was trapped in ice in Aberdeen is rescued after being spotted by a school pupil.

Egyptian police fire teargas during clashes with protesters gathered outside the presidential palace in the capital Cairo.

A former soldier described as a "sexual predator" is found guilty of murdering a woman in 1979 and attacks on three others.