Detectives are given more time to question the parents of so-called "honour killing" victim Shafilea Ahmed.

A man is charged with the murder of a woman who was found injured outside a property in East Yorkshire.

A RETIRED businessman accused of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian missiles must wait to discover whether he will be extradited to the US.

Extra buses, escorted bike rides and more river boat journeys will be laid on to help people get to work in London during next week's Tube strike.

A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.

Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.

Known football hooligans are targeted by Avon and Somerset police ahead of England's Euro 2012 qualifying game in Switzerland next week.

A man is arrested on suspicion of arson after three farms are attacked within 24 hours.

A rare German WWII bomber which has been buried in a sandbank off the Kent coast for the past 70 years is to be raised.

Thousands of people are expected to travel to Blackpool to watch Robbie Williams switch on the illuminations.

Mourners will gather later for the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who died trying to save a teenage girl in the sea off Whitby.

Engineers behind a £42m wave energy scheme in Cornwall plan to lower a giant electrical socket on to the sea bed later.