Nominated artists Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal and The XX are among the acts arriving in London for this year's prestigious Mercury Music Prize. 

The Metropolitan Police are likely to discuss new phone-hacking allegations with Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson, its assistant commissioner says. 

A police officer who was caught on CCTV injuring a woman by throwing her into a cell is jailed for six months. 

Some services resume on the London Underground following severe disruption on the first morning of a series of 24-hour strikes. 

Nearly 10,000 jobs are at risk as the property and environmental services giant Connaught faces collapse. 

Pilots, firefighters, nurses and ambulance workers gather 70 years after battling through eight months of bombing raids over Britain's industrial centres.