Leeds-based fashion chain Republic, which employs 1,000 staff, is expected to become the latest High Street name to go into administration.

The scrapping of a GP service in east Belfast which was designed to reduce demand on the Belfast health trust is being blamed for soaring hospital waiting lists.

Dutch banking and insurance group ING announces a further 2,400 job cuts as it prepares to split its banking and insurance operations.

Health officials in the UK believe they have the strongest evidence yet that a new respiratory illness similar to the deadly Sars virus can spread from person to person.

Six journalists who worked at the now defunct News of the World are arrested by police as part of a new inquiry into claims of phone hacking at the paper.

Lord Justice Goldring is appointed coroner to the new inquests into the deaths of the 96 victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

The UK economy has "cause for optimism", the governor of the Bank of England says, but warns that inflation will remain above target for two years.

The estate of Jimmy Savile and the BBC are being sued by alleged sex abuse victims of the late DJ and presenter.