Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said the scale of suffering in Gaza is immense as he called again for an immediate ceasefire.

The terrorist threat against Britain has reduced following a series of high-profile successes by the security services, the head of MI5 has said.

Gordon Brown is considering raising the tax-free allowance to £10,000 as part of measures to help families struggling with the credit crunch, a close ally has claimed.

The public overwhelmingly supports criminal record checks on volunteers working with children, Government research shows.

Union leaders are seeking urgent talks with high street giant Marks & Spencer as workers braced themselves for huge job losses in the wake of the economic slowdown.

A woman who contracted rabies while abroad has died in a Northern Ireland hospital.

Gordon Brown's efforts to turn Britain into a high-skill, high-wage economy are failing and will come under further pressure as recession bites, a report has warned.

Rail passengers' journeys have been disrupted when overhead wires came down and stopped trains from moving, in the third railway incident in a week.

Britain will be immune from any gas shortages caused by the row between Russia and Ukraine, the Government has said.

Britain's big freeze has intensified as forecasters warned temperatures would continue to plunge.

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