Britain's Premium Credit Rating Downgraded

Rating agency Moody's has stripped Britain of its top-grade AAA credit rating, citing slow growth and a rising debt burden. After the international agency announced the one notch drop to AA1, Chancellor George Osborne said it was a "stark reminder"...

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'Bedroom Tax' To Hit Thousands Of Families

By Emma Birchley, East Of England Correspondent Thousands of families living in social housing are facing a cut in their benefits from April because they are seen to have too big a home. The under-occupation penalty, dubbed "the bedroom tax", aims...

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Food Bills May Rise Amid Growing Meat Tests

By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent Consumers are being warned that food bills may rise if high demand for meat testing continues. Since the start of the horsemeat scandal, laboratories all over the UK have been inundated with requests to...

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Top Pupils Two Years Behind Those In Asia

By Siobhan Robbins, Sky Correspondent England's brightest pupils have fallen two years behind in maths compared to international counterparts in places such as Taiwan and Hong Kong by the time they reach 16, according to a new report. A study by...

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Jemima Prees: Tribute To Ski Tragedy Schoolgirl

The family of a British schoolgirl who died in a skiing accident in the Austrian Alps has spoken of how she "lived every day as if it might be her last". Mourners will gather today for the funeral of 10-year-old Jemima Prees, who was killed when she...

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Savile: Pollard BBC Inquiry Evidence Released

The BBC is braced for the release of evidence gathered by the Pollard inquiry into how the corporation handled the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. Thousands of emails and transcripts of interviews with senior figures ranging from Newsnight host Jeremy...

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Four-Year-Old 'Sexually Assaulted': Teen Held

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl at a children's play centre in Lancaster. The girl told her parents the assault happened whilst she was playing at The Zone on Dalton Square between 12.30pm...

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Abuse Inquiry Uses Posters To Find Victims

By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent A state inquiry into historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland has taken the unprecedented step of posting billboards on bus stops to encourage survivors to come forward and give evidence. To date,...

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'Prisons Are Run Better By Private Firms'

Private firms are better at running prisons than the public sector and all jails should be subject to open competition, according to a think tank. The Government would be wrong to limit the role of private companies within prisons to small contracts,...

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Financial Crisis Led To 3.7 Million Job Losses

Around 3.7 million people have been made redundant since the recession in 2008 - one in seven of all employees - according to new research. Almost two-thirds of those losing their jobs were men, with most redundancies reported in 2009. The last two...

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IVF Treatment For Older Women On The NHS

By Thomas Moore, Health and Science Correspondent Women aged 40 to 42 will be allowed one cycle of IVF so long as it is their first attempt, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) says. Previously Nice only recommended...

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New 4G Phone Operators Announced By Ofcom

Telecoms watchdog Ofcom has granted permits for more mobile phone firms to operate faster 4G networks. The four new winners are Hutchison 3G, a division of BT called Niche Spectrum, Telefonica O2 and Vodafone. Existing 4G operator Everything Everywhere...

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Hilary Mantel: Kate Is A 'Plastic Princess'

Pregnant Kate: Baby Bump On Show Updated: 12:16am UK, Tuesday 19 February 2013 By Paul Harrison, Royal Correspondent Kate's baby bump will be on show for the first time in the UK later today as she visits a project for women recovering from substance...

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MPs: Tax Dodgers 'Should Be Named And Shamed'

Tax dodgers should be "named and shamed" to stop celebrities using legal loopholes to cut the amount they pay to the Treasury, MPs say. The Public Accounts Committee says promoters of tax avoidance schemes are "running rings" around the taxman by taking...

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Bionic Legs: New Prosthetics For Injured Soldiers

By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent The Government has pledged £6.5m to buy the latest prosthetic limbs for soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the new legs which will now be available to amputees is the US-made Genium. Its...

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Stafford Hospital: Police Probe New Evidence

New evidence about the scandal at Stafford hospital is being examined by police and prosecutors that could lead to criminal charges, according to reports. Matthew Ellis, the police and crime commissioner for Staffordshire, said detectives were looking...

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Half Of Train Firms Lagging In Passenger Poll

More than half of train companies have a customer satisfaction score of 50% or lower, according to a Which? survey. Overall, only 22% of train travellers feel their service is improving despite above-inflation fare rises in January. Bottom in the 19-company...

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Murder Probe After Body Found In Salford

A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a 19-year-old man was found in Salford. The man was found with multiple injuries by police officers who were called to Light Oaks Road shortly after 9.20pm on Sunday. He was pronounced dead...

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Teenager Shot Dead In East London

A teenager has died and a man is fighting for his life after being shot in east London. The pair were shot in Hindrey Road, Clapton, at 8.20pm on Saturday, Scotland Yard said. Paramedics took them to hospital where the younger victim, 19, later died....

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Horsemeat: 'Ministers Were Warned In 2011'

Government ministers were warned in 2011 that horse meat was illegally entering the human food chain, it has been claimed. John Young, a former manager at the Meat Hygiene Service, now part of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), told the Sunday Times he...

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Home Secretary Pledges New Deportation Law

Home Secretary Theresa May is planning a new law to stop foreign criminals avoiding deportation, according to reports. She told the Sunday Telegraph that the actions of some immigration judges were "not acceptable" and that they were "subverting" British...

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