A national club holds its annual swim in Windermere after another event is cancelled because of warnings over poisonous algae.

A father and his 15-year-old son are killed in a motorbike accident outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

Stephen Smith looks at the cultural legacy of the twin bed hotel room.

A man is rescued after he reportedly fell from a lighthouse and plunged into the sea off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway.

A 13-year-old girl and her uncle suffer serious burns when a gas cylinder explodes during her birthday barbecue in Wiltshire.

Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000.

Firefighters rescue a horse and its groom after the animal kicked its way out of a horse box and into the front cab.

A ring road in south Leeds will be closed for much of the weekend following a large gas mains fire, police say.

Violence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC.

Yoko Ono makes an "emotional" visit to John Lennon's former school and childhood home in Liverpool.

A 23-year-old man is rescued by two surfers after his homemade raft was blown out to sea off the Gower.

The interim managing director brought in to run a crisis-hit authority is to stay on for the forseeable future.

Nine people, including one Briton, are killed when a light aircraft crashes after taking off from Fox Glacier in New Zealand, say reports.

Author Ian McEwan on writing, walking and quantum mechanics

One of Scotland's largest councils - North Lanarkshire - warns that it may have to cut more than 1,000 jobs.

The spending review's political arm-wrestling contest

Papers consider phone hack claims

Downing Street's head of communications, Andy Coulson, is safe in his job despite phone hacking claims surrounding the News of the World newspaper, says a senior government source.

A poll commissioned by Ed Miliband's leadership campaign finds voters are less likely to vote Labour if there is not a shift from New Labour policies.

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