An 11-year-old boy is badly injured when a car crashes on to the Newcastle-Carlisle railway line in Northumberland.

The Brit Awards shortlists three promising new artists for its 2013 Critics' Choice Award, who will follow in the footsteps of past winners Adele, Jessie J and Emeli Sande.

Coalition plans deliver local services using more co-operatives and mutuals have "no legs" without more Whitehall support, a group of MPs warns.

Labour says plans to squeeze benefits announced in the Autumn Statement will hit working families, as a credit agency suggests the UK's AAA rating is under threat.

House prices bounced back slightly in November, but are still lower than a year ago, says the Halifax mortgage lender.

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson has appealed for loyalists to suspend all Union flag street protests.

A search is under way for a mother who is believed to have run away with her son to prevent him receiving cancer treatment.

Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried are among the stars at the world premiere of the film version of the musical Les Miserables in London.