Polling has closed in the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election, with Labour tipped to hold on to the seat.

The Scottish first minister accuses the three main UK parties of "bluff, bluster and bullying" over their opposition to a currency union with an independent Scotland.

Schools are lodging tactical appeals over borderline exam results in a bid to boost their results, the exams regulator says.

Stormy weather is due to return to the UK as engineers work overnight to reconnect more than 25,000 properties still without electricity following Wednesday's hurricane-force winds.

The coalition is set to drop plans to give voters the ability to dismiss MPs for "serious wrongdoing".

A UN team is to visit the area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 70 people are believed to have been killed recently.

Castleford half-back Brett Seymour on his battle with depression and the night "everything came to a halt"

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius speaks of his sorrow on the anniversary of the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.