NHS Alcohol-Related Admissions Near '10 Million'

By Frazer Maude, North Of England Correspondent Almost 10 million people a year are receiving NHS treatment because of alcohol, according to new figures. The report compiled by Alcohol Concern shows the number and cost of treatments for illness and...

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Writer's POW Father Inspired Prize-Winning Book

Australian novelist Richard Flanagan has won the Man Booker Prize after drawing on his father's World War Two prisoner of war experience to write The Narrow Road To The Deep North. The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, a surgeon imprisoned in...

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Royal Hoax Radio DJ Seeks Work In The UK

By Jonathan Samuels, Australia Correspondent One of the Australian DJs at the heart of the royal hoax phone call scandal has told a UK radio conference she would like to work on the airwaves in Britain. Mel Greig appeared at Radio Festival 2014 in...

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Police Bail Limit Review After Yewtree Arrests

The length of time suspects can be kept on police bail is to be reviewed after a number of celebrities were left waiting months to hear if they would be charged with sex offences. The Home Secretary announced the move in a speech at the College of...

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Jobless Total Back Below Two-Million Mark

The latest unemployment figures show the jobless total below the two-million mark for the first time since 2008. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said unemployment fell by 154,000 in the three months to August to 1.97 million, with the jobless...

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Sainsbury's Endures Backlash On Nectar Cuts

Sainsbury's customers have threatened to shop elsewhere after the supermarket chain confirmed it was planning cuts to its Nectar reward points. The company, which announced the changes in an email, said it was halving points to one per pound...

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Baby Death: Family Rebuked Over Dangerous Dog

By Lisa Dowd, Sky News Correspondent A baby girl bled to death from head wounds after being attacked by the family dog, according to the provisional findings of a coroner. An inquest in Northampton into the death of six-month-old Molly-Mae Wotherspoon...

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Glastonbury In Native American Headdress Ruling

Traders at next year's Glastonbury Festival have been forbidden from selling Native American headdresses following an online petition. The headwear is often worn by revellers at summer festivals all over the world and has controversially become...

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Beginners' Luck For EuroMillions Builders

Six builders are celebrating winning more than £300,000 in a EuroMillions lottery draw as part of a syndicate that had entered for the first time. The men, who work in Glasgow and all live near each other in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, will each get...

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Lord Freud Accused Over Disabled Comments

Welfare minister Lord Freud was under pressure to resign after Labour leader Ed Miliband disclosed he claimed that disabled people were "not worth" the minimum wage. Welfare charities joined politicians in calling for the Conservative minister to...

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