Police say they have received 5,000 calls from the public in response to their appeal for information about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Former Tory Prime Minister Sir John Major warns that there can be no "quasi independence or half-way house" when it comes to Scottish independence.

We all enjoy a good meal out so it is no wonder that food is big business. But, rising prices are again a growing concern. Our chief business correspondent, Linda Yueh, explains.

The government is asking the big six energy firms to hold prices until the middle of 2015, barring any major increase in wholesale fuel costs.

Concerns that hundreds of thousands of dementia sufferers have not been diagnosed make headlines, along with new rights to employment leave for fathers.

The so-called Big 6 energy companies in the UK are being put under pressure by the government to keep the price of household bills in check until after the next election, as John Moylan reports.

Rejuvenating town centres requires radical action on a scale not seen the building programmes of post war Britain, according to a major new report.

The head of a Latvian supermarket chain loses his job over controversial comments he made after the collapse of a shop in Riga, which killed 54 people.