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The Gurkha regiment could be facing the axe as part of the battle over defence spending, a Conservative MP claimed today.

The police watchdog is investigating after a man died following attempts to restrain him.

The police watchdog is investigating after a man died following attempts to restrain him.

The mother of a 10-year-old girl mauled by two rottweilers praised the child's grandmother for helping to save her.

The mother of a 10-year-old girl mauled by two rottweilers praised the child's grandmother for helping to save her.

Five men will go on trial today accused of murdering a shopkeeper who was beaten to death during a robbery at his store.

Five men will go on trial today accused of murdering a shopkeeper who was beaten to death during a robbery at his store.

A disciplinary panel will make a ruling today on the fitness to practise of the pathologist who first ruled that newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died from natural causes at the G20 protest.

A disciplinary panel will make a ruling today on the fitness to practise of the pathologist who first ruled that newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died from natural causes at the G20 protest.

The Government is set to reap almost £30 billion from its holdings in British banks which it bailed out at the time of the financial crisis, according to an analysis published today.

The Government is set to reap almost £30 billion from its holdings in British banks which it bailed out at the time of the financial crisis, according to an analysis published today.

Investigators from Pakistan's highest crime-fighting agency will arrive in London today to begin their own inquiry into allegations of a cricket betting scam amid growing calls for the country to be suspended to prevent further damage to the reputation of the international game.

Britain and France are expected to reveal plans to share the use of their aircraft carriers.

Britain and France are expected to reveal plans to share the use of their aircraft carriers.

Investigators from Pakistan's highest crime-fighting agency will arrive in London today to begin their own inquiry into allegations of a cricket betting scam amid growing calls for the country to be suspended to prevent further damage to the reputation of the international game.

On a Monday evening in November 1997 Frank Lampard had just struck an equaliser for West Ham United against Crystal Palace when the floodlights at Upton Park failed, plunging the ground into darkness and forcing the abandonment of the game.

When winston Churchill remarked that "history will be kind to me for I intend to write it", he spoke for the 11 former inhabitants of Number 10 who have published their memoirs before and since. The contribution of the 12th, Tony Blair, will come tomorrow. He can only hope that history will be kinder to him than his contemporary critics, few of whom will have their minds changed either way by the TB version of his decade in power.

Gordon Brown returns to front-line politics today, making an appeal for Britain to fund food aid to the landlocked African state of Niger where more than half the population face starvation.

Labour's grandees were locked in a furious battle of words yesterday as they took opposing sides over which of the Miliband brothers should be the party's next leader.

More than a million revellers were thought to have attended the Notting Hill Carnival yesterday, making it Europe's largest street festival, which has been held every August bank holiday since 1966.