Labour should rule out forming a coalition with the Lib Dems after the next election, Unite union boss Len McCluskey says.

Spending on flood risk management should be substantially increased in next month's Budget, urges a leading engineering organisation.

Co-op Group is selling its farms and may sell its pharmacies as part of a reorganisation, with losses in 2013 set to exceed £2bn, says BBC business editor Robert Peston.

Victorian crime drama Ripper Street is to return to screens for a third series on Amazon's video on demand service.

A computer virus that can spread via wi-fi like a "common cold" is created by researchers from the University of Liverpool.

The attorney general is considering whether to review the four-year sentence given to a man who killed another man with a single punch.

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson threatens to resign unless there is a judicial inquiry into secret letters given to more than 180 Irish republican paramilitary suspects.

Rebekah Brooks tells the Old Bailey of her "strained" relationship with ex-lover and rival newspaper editor Andy Coulson.