Marks & Spencer today revealed the 27 stores it will close after one of its worst ever Christmas trading performances. The retailer announced it will shut 25 Simply Food stores and two of its smaller M&S outlets and cut more than 1,200 jobs after sales fell by 7.1 per cent.
A woman was jailed for seven years today for crushing a 15-month-old toddler under the wheels of her car.
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
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.
Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK.
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
Adolf Merckle told his family that he 'had to go to the office for a while' - then drove to a railway embankment and threw himself under a train.
A terrified toddler hid as fire raged through her home after a random arson attack because she was too scared to jump to safety, her distraught parents revealed today.
Russia today shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine, leaving 12 countries without fuel in freezing winter conditions.
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.
Firing has resumed in the Gaza Strip this afternoon after Israel and Hamas held a three-hour truce today to allow desperately-needed humanitarian aid to filter through.
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'.
Two women police officers are suing the Met for £1million each over sexual harassment allegations against three male officers.
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.
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.
Britons are 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. ...read
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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.
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 heard today.
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