It has hurled billions at the banks without managing to get them lending and trimmed VAT with negligible effect on struggling stores. Now Labour is considering a new tactic to deal with the recession - simply print more money.
A single father was left stunned after he was turned away from a swimming pool when staff told him he could not provide proper supervision for his two sons.
A woman was jailed for seven years today for crushing a 15-month-old toddler under the wheels of her car.
Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK.
An eccentric loner is believed to have died of thirst after becoming trapped in a bizarre and intricate network of tunnels built from rubbish in his home.
Gordon Brown is facing growing demands to reverse the temporary cut in the rate of VAT. Labour MPs echoed warnings from business leaders yesterday that the debt-funded gamble is doing little or nothing to encourage shoppers to spend. ...read
Firing has resumed in the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas held a three-hour truce to allow desperately-needed humanitarian aid to filter through.
Marks & Spencer today revealed the 27 stores it will close after one of its worst ever Christmas trading performances. Two smaller M&S outlets and 25 Simply Food shops will shut.
Health and safety regulations have turned getting the show on to the stage into such a performance that a theatre company fears being shut down before the curtain goes up.
The EU has given Russia 24 hours to restore gas supplies after all deliveries to Ukraine were halted in a dispute over unpaid bills.
A motorist has been killed and two Good Samaritans who stopped to help him seriously injured after they were hit by vehicles on a motorway slip road.
A deaf teenager has won a landmark discrimination case after she was humiliated on sports day because she could not hear announcements telling her to stop running.
The dodo, sabre-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth head the list of animals that scientists would like to bring back from extinction.
A six-year-old boy who missed his bus tried to drive himself to school in the family car.
Mourners were gathered, and family members paid their last respects as the deceased was laid to rest. But there was just one problem - the funeral directors had brought the wrong body.
Patients with the flu as well as doctors will be told to wear face masks under the first guidance of its kind ever issued to GPs
A mother gave birth on Christmas Day and still found time to serve her family the festive dinner just hours later. Karen Holmes was woken at 5am on December 25 by the onset of labour pains and by 7.42am she had given birth, at home, to Samuel, a 7lb 4oz boy. ...read
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He is already guaranteed membership of the world’s most elite club. But Barack Obama got a real taste of what he can expect in a historic meeting with all the living former US presidents at the White House. It came at the suggestion of the President-elect and George Bush quickly issued lunch invitations to his 84-year-old father, Bill Clinton, 62, and Jimmy Carter, 84. ...read
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Millions of Britons are finally waking up to the fact that their beloved light bulb will disappear for good after 120 years. Traditional 100-watt bulbs are vanishing from the High Street because of a controversial European Union decision.
Apple is opening up the digital music market by making songs purchased from its iTunes online store playable on any MP3 player. Until now, most tracks bought from its library could only play on iPods.
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Three teenage burglars with a conscience walked free today after sending a signed card to their victim saying: 'Very sorry, it will never happen again'.
One of Britain's richest men has cashed in on a 400-year-old aristrocratic right by charging hard-up taxpayers £280,000 to build a bridge over his riverbed.
A married luxury jet pilot sexually harassed an air hostess as they flew executives around the world, an employment tribunal has heard.
London Mayor Boris Johnson faces a formal investigation into his role in the Whitehall leaks inquiry. He is accused of prejudging the outcome of a police investigation into Tory MP Damian Green.
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