Television writer Carla Lane, who created shows including 1980s Liverpool sitcoms Bread and Butterflies, dies aged 87.

The director of Cincinnati zoo says he would do the same again after a gorilla, into whose enclosure a child fell, was shot dead.

A French gardener is jailed for 30 years for the premeditated murder of his British lover at her home in southern France in 2012.

Families of victims of the Winterbourne View scandal write to the prime minister demanding he shuts outdated care home institutions.

High Streets and public spaces in some areas of the UK no longer have any council-run public lavatories, the BBC learns.

The length of UK roads covered by permanent average speed cameras has more than doubled since 2013, new figures have reveal.

The centenary of the biggest naval engagement of World War One is to be marked by services in Scotland and at sea.

An inquiry into historical child sex abuse in Northern Ireland is due to begin examining allegations relating to the former Kincora Boys' Home.