Two homes are being demolished after an explosion which killed two people at a terraced house in Nottinghamshire, emergency planners say.

A music school for deprived teenagers in east London and two schools for autistic children are among the latest wave of free schools to be approved.

A 61-year-old man is charged with the murder of four soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing in Hyde Park, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

A man accused of murdering five-year-old April Jones told a court he had never had any sexual interest in young children.

The UK could do more to offset the negative impact of austerity measures on the economy, the IMF has said.

Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland have both expressed confidence in their capital positions following an assessment by regulators.

Scots MP Eric Joyce is arrested in connection with a breach of the peace at Edinburgh Airport.

Three fraudsters are jailed for making 50,000 fake £1 coins in what police describe as the biggest plot of its kind.