Remotely monitoring patients with long-term conditions is not more cost effective than usual care, a large UK trial suggests.

The government in Cyprus says the coming hours will decide the country's fate as it struggles to meet the terms of an international bailout.

Some £4m in cold weather payments, to help vulnerable people with energy bills, have been made in March - compared with nothing in March last year.

Friends and family attend the funeral of a 16-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed on a bus in Birmingham.

The body of a man has been found in the French ski resort of La Plagne, the BBC learns.

A music college whose former pupils include performers Leona Lewis and Goldie has its licence revoked by the UK Border Agency.

Patients in England do not feel safe relying on GP out-of-hours care and are struggling to get access to doctors during normal hours, a leading patient group is warning.

Newly released papers from Margaret Thatcher's personal archive reveal senior Tories were initially sceptical about going to war over the Falklands.