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- Police question Pakistan's Amir
- Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir is being questioned at a north London police station over allegations of corruption, while the ICC says that the players implicated have a disciplinary case to answer.
- Prescott urges phone hack review
- Lord Prescott says he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.
- Lib Dem veteran Cyril Smith dies
- The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died, aged 82, the party confirms.
- Fox rules out French 'ship share'
- Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.
- Ex-MI6 man sentenced over leaks
- A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.
- Tycoon Nadir bailed in fraud case
- Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is remanded on bail at the Old Bailey at his first court appearance on fraud and theft charges.
- G20 death pathologist suspended
- A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests is suspended from the medical register for three months.
- Mother charged with son's murder
- A County Durham woman who took the lifeless body of her two-year-old to a police station has been charged with his murder
- Men in short supply in primaries
- One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.
- 'Big drop' in alcohol consumption
- Alcohol consumption has fallen faster than ever, figures from the British Beer and Pub Association suggest.
- BBC defends Thompson No 10 visit
- The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts.
- Farage to contest UKIP leadership
- Nigel Farage says he will stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party, a position he held until last year.
- County council to axe 1,500 jobs
- Somerset County Council is to cut as many as 1,500 posts by 2013 n an attempt to plug a £75m deficit in its finances.
- Cheryl and Ashley granted divorce
- Cheryl and Ashley Cole are granted a divorce at the High Court after four years of marriage.
- Baby Florence makes Downing Street debut
- Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha show off their baby daughter, Florence, for the first time on the steps of Number 10.
- Viva Forever: Saunders to write Spice Girls the musical
- TV comedienne Jennifer Saunders is to write the story for musical Viva Forever - based on the songs of the Spice Girls.
- Women rescued in 'brothel raids'
- Foreign woman suspected of being forced to work as prostitutes in Belfast are understood to have been rescued in a series of raids.
- Donagh victims 'forgotten about'
- A man abused as a child by the McDermott brothers in Donagh, County Fermanagh, says their victims are being forgotten about.
- MP says paper 'hacked' his phone
- Welsh MP Chris Bryant says he believes his answer machine messages were intercepted by journalists at a tabloid newspaper.
- Four teenagers deny man's murder
- Four teenagers deny murdering a 61-year-old man at his home in Conwy.
- Man held over power drill attack
- A 19-year-old man is arrested after a serious assault in North Lanarkshire in which a man was attacked with a power drill.
- Fringe defends ticket sales total
- Edinburgh Fringe officials defend their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office returns.
- Officer hurt in seized car crash
- Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.
- Man extradited over Spanish death
- A British man wanted in Spain on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend is to be extradited.
- England pressure inspires Capello
- England coach Fabio Capello says he hopes the pressure of expectation over the team's Euro 2012 qualifier with Bulgaria will bring out the best in him.
- Farah out of Commonwealth Games
- Double European champion Mo Farah announces his withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games because of fatigue.
- Murray ready for Jamaica's Brown
- Britain's Andy Murray takes on Dustin Brown of Jamaica in the second round of the US Open, with the threat of Hurricane Earl hanging over New York.
- Propping up a prime minister
- Tony Blair used alcohol as a 'prop' during his time in power but how many of us do the same?
- Been and Gone
- Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser reported - people of the past month.
- Why does PPE rule Britain?
- It is the degree of choice among the Westminster elite, claiming six cabinet members and three Labour leadership contenders among its alumni. Why does Oxford's Politics, Philosophy and Economics course dominate public life?
- School lottery 'failed in aim'
- England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.
- Openness urged on UK's emissions
- The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion.
- PM backs Hague over aide rumours
- David Cameron supports William Hague "100%" following speculation about the foreign secretary's private life, the PM's spokeswoman says.
- 'I was nearly six foot at 11 years old'
- President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the rest?
- Mighty mouse study on St Kilda
- Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice.
- Florence Cameron's Downing St debut
- David and Samantha Cameron have introduced their new daughter, Florence, on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
- 'I made baby Cameron's shawl'
- The Cameron's baby daughter Florence has made her debut on the steps of 10 Downing Street. She was swaddled in a white shawl which was sent to the family by a member of the public, Jane Fraser-Cross.
- Tea and biscuits with Led Zeppelin?
- Robert Plant speaks to BBC Breakfast about the artists he works with on his new album, what he thinks of Led Zeppelin covers, and the possibility of the legendary band reforming again.
- Rare tree flowers after 23 years
- A rare Chinese tree has flowered for the first time in 23 years at Kew's country estate in West Sussex.
- On board the UK's newest attack sub
- Commander Andy Coles shows BBC News around the control room of the Royal Navy's new attack submarine and talks about life on board.
- Usain Bolt: The man behind the image
- Usain Bolt tells the BBC's Leon Mann how he's coping with the intense media attention prompted by his book launch.
- The Peter Kay factor
- How many books must Blair sell to beat northern comic?
- Class of its own
- Inside the Royal Navy's newest, most powerful attack submarine
- Midnight feast
- Why bed-bug infestations are on the rise again
- 7 days quiz
- How much is a bottle of beer under new price laws on booze?
- Newspaper review
- Papers discuss the existence of God
Police question Pakistan's Amir