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David Cameron ordered reviews yesterday into how police responded to Derrick Bird’s shooting rampage.

Diane Abbott gatecrashed the Labour leadership contest yesterday by securing, just seconds before nominations closed, the support from 33 MPs she needed for her name to appear on the ballot papers.

Junior doctors are having essential training compromised because the NHS is too reliant on them to work night and weekend shifts that should be covered by more experienced consultants, a critical review says.

A full public inquiry is to be held into failings at an NHS hospital that are believed to have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of patients, the Government announced yesterday.

A 20-year-old Romanian in search of a job survived a 97-minute flight to Heathrow in sub-zero temperatures after hiding in an aircraft wheel-well.

A controversial decision that a high-profile libel trial must go ahead without a jury is to be challenged in the Court of Appeal today.

Elite Paralympic athletes should be barred from Olympic track events because advances in prosthetic technology will soon enable sprinters with artificial legs to run the 100 metres in eight seconds, an expert says.

A mystery, both on and off air, has engulfed The Archers after one of the most enduring — “best-loved” would be pushing it — characters of the show suddenly died away from the action.

Geoff Hoon is to blame the Army for failing to ensure that soldiers followed orders banning the hooding of prisoners in Iraq.

More than 725,000 public sector jobs are expected to be lost in the next four years under the coalition’s plans to cut the deficit, a senior economist will warn today.

Concerns about the security of England fans in South Africa increased yesterday after three foreign journalists were robbed in their hotel at gunpoint.

“Platoon house” was a term coined by military spokesmen in 2006 to describe the small fortified bases defended by British forces in the towns of Sangin, Musa Qala, Nawzad and Garmsir.

David Hockney’s contribution to the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition this year is a feat of technological endurance, but the artist is hoping that making his future works will be much easier — with the help of an iPad.

A remotely-controlled “sniffer dog” that can detect improvised explosive devices — the deadly IEDs that have caused high casualties among Nato troops in Afghanistan — has been developed by scientists.

Shadowy figures immersed in organised crime are to be identified on the internet today, a move that will shine a spotlight on the criminal underworld.

Concerns about the security of England fans in South Africa increased yesterday after three foreign journalists were robbed in their hotel at gunpoint.

Doctors are encouraging a public mistrust of vaccines by putting out mixed messages that increase patients’ concerns, one of the country’s leading scientists says.

Doctors are encouraging a public mistrust of vaccines by putting out mixed messages that increase patients’ concerns, one of the country’s leading scientists says.

It was January 26, 2006, when Britain’s Defence Secretary announced the decision to send 3,300 troops to southern Afghanistan on a stabilisation mission. Two months later, John Reid uttered the fateful hope that the task force would return home after three years “without a shot being fired”.

Stress and anxiety can make it harder for wounds to heal, scientists have shown.