Business Secretary Vince Cable writes to the Scottish legal authorities urging a rapid decision on whether to prosecute former directors of RBS .

Hartlepool's mayor, famously elected when he was a football mascot, assesses his 11-year term in office as he prepares to stand down.

Actress and singer Deanna Durbin, one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars in the 1930s and early '40s, dies aged 91.

The British woman facing death by firing squad for drug smuggling in Bali tells the BBC the UK government is doing "very little" to support her.

The UK's manufacturing sector contracted again in April, but by less than expected, according to a closely-watched indicator.

Welsh artist Dan Llywelyn Hall reveals what it is like to paint the Queen.

The situation of children in Iraq 10 years after the US-led invasion is "one of the world's most neglected crises", the charity War Child says.

Online universities, known as Moocs, are targeting teacher training, with the announcement of partnerships with schools of education.