Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont resigns saying senior party members had "questioned" her role amid the "serious challenges" faced by Labour in Scotland.

Google executive Alan Eustace breaks the world altitude record for a parachute jump set two years ago by Felix Baumgartner.

England's lost football grounds - part II

Ashya King's father said his son "has really come along" while under going proton beam therapy in Prague.

Better protection is needed for consumers buying used cars, says a commission studying the high level of complaints against the sector.

Plans to turn an area of ancient Staffordshire woodland mentioned in the Domesday Book into a quarry anger conservationists.

A report into the route of the second phase of the controversial fast train project HS2 is expected to recommend a new station be built in Crewe.

Have Jedis created a new 'religion'?