Tory MEP Daniel Hannan pushes for a referendum on whether the UK should stay in the European Union, calling it a "matter of major constitutional significance".

One of the post-mortem examination reports into the death of Ian Tomlinson has been withheld from authorities, it emerges.

UK manufacturing output rises 0.3% in July from the month earlier, thanks to increased output in the machinery sector.

Horror movie The Last Exorcism debuts at the top of the UK and Ireland box office, taking £1.1m in its opening weekend.

Cambridge University has come top of an international university rankings table, knocking Harvard of the top spot for the first time since 2004.

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The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner.

Six people have died in a US missile strike targeting militants in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border, security officials say.

Pilgrims from Glasgow travelling to the Pope's mass at Bellahouston Park are told to use public transport to get there.

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Stephen McManus insists Scotland's last-gasp victory over Liechtenstein was down to character rather than luck.

Thousands of photographs taken by playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be posted online, the National Trust announces.

Police investigating the murder of a man whose body was set alight and dumped at a golf course near Brighton visit petrol stations.

Sussex clinch promotion back to Division One of the County Championship, while leaders Nottinghamshire launch a fightback against Yorkshire in the race for the title.

Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high.

Business Secretary Vince Cable expresses "worry" about the combination of High Street banks with investment banking, after Bob Diamond is named as Barclays' new boss.

Police appeal for information in a bid to trace a man who raped a 14-year-old girl in a Bedford park.

A 41-year-old man is treated in hospital following a shooting in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow.

UK house prices have stabilised, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.

The DUP MP for North Belfast Nigel Dodds is to step down from the assembly within days, the BBC learns.