Father tells of waves that killed wife

Roy Dinsmore's wife Barbara and friends Robert and Deborah Fry drowned while trying to rescue their children caught in a riptide

Court action aims to save rare insects

Attempt begins to stop land described as one of the country’s top three insect homes being turned into a lorry park

Mother denies author's allegations of abuse

Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell says she was libelled by claims of physical and emotional abuse in her daughter's book, Ugly

Baby P doctor breaks her silence

Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat, who has been banned from working unsupervised, said she had been 'deeply affected' by events

Peer to be charged over 'texting' death crash

Lord Ahmed, the first Muslim peer, is to be charged over fatal crash which followed text message being sent from his phone

Solicitor accused over 'bogus' feudal titles

A London lawyer is facing disciplinary action over his alleged role in selling titles over the internet to Americans

Merseyside policeman is first victim of BNP list leak

Police complaints watchdog alerted after male officer on Merseyside 'outed' as BNP member on leaked membership list

BNP - 'We know who leaked our membership list'

Far Right party leader Nick Griffin blames disgruntled former member for posting more than 12,000 names on the internet

Maths for parents may improve results

Family maths classes could help raise standards in the subject in primary schools, government spending watchdog says

Britain urged to open the door to Europeans

Ministers must decide whether to maintain the ban on workers from Bulgaria and Romania for another three years

'Dance troupe feud' saw girl murdered

Teenager Annaka Pinto was shot in the head after a falling-out between dancers in the dance group known as the X Squad

The middle-aged couples live 'apart together'

The rise in the number of married couples who live apart is contributing to a severe housing shortage in the UK

People

Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, Patricia Arquette, Sacha Baron Cohen and Julian Clary come under Adam Sherwin's microscope

Eileanchelys waldmani swam with dinosaurs

The discovery of the previously unknown species of primitive turtle represents a missing link in the evolution of turtles

Man jailed for passing on hepatitis B

A man who had unprotected sex and knowingly gave a woman potentially life-threatening hepatitis B has been jailed for two years

Role-playing helps address mutual contempt

The session have helped to highlight how police conduct affected the community, particularly young people

The Face: Andrea Riseborough

An A-level dropout from Newcastle, Riseborough is fast becoming the go-to young actress for historical character roles

Villagers raise £1m to save castle

Locals set up the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust to save the crumbling Hopton Castle in Shropshire

Q&A: deflation

The dreaded D-word, one of the most feared of economic blights, refers to sustained falls in prices across the economy

Deflation threat grows as prices tumble

Consumer price inflation posted its biggest drop since records began in 1992, falling to 4.5 per cent last month