Man Dies Sleeping Rough In Cold For Documentary

A young documentary maker has been found dead while sleeping rough in freezing temperatures to highlight the plight of the homeless. Lee Halpin, 26, had planned to spend a week living on the streets in his home city of Newcastle. He began the project...

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Food Prices Set To Soar After Big Freeze

By Emma Birchley, East of England Correspondent Months of heavy rain followed by extreme cold are set to hit harvests and push the price of the weekly shop up ever higher. More than a quarter of winter wheat could not be planted last autumn because...

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Hospital Patients Should Be Offered Nicotine Gum

Hospital patients who smoke should be given nicotine patches or gum as soon as they are admitted, health officials have said. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said hospitals have a duty of care to help people quit the habit....

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HMV Rescue: Hilco Deal To Save Jobs And Shops

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor HMV, Britain's last remaining independent music retail chain, is on the verge of being rescued tonight in a £50m deal that will preserve 2,500 jobs. I can reveal that Hilco, the specialist restructuring firm, is poised...

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Hate Crime: Goths, Punks And Emos Recognised

By Rhiannon Mills, Sky News Reporter Greater Manchester Police have become the first in the country to officially recognise hate crimes against goths, emos, punks and metallers. Attacks on those who belong to alternative subcultures will now be...

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Pakistan Aid 'Should Be Linked To Taxes On Rich'

Britain should withhold extra aid to Pakistan unless the country boosts the amount of tax it collects from its own elite, a group of MPs has said. Pakistan will become the largest recipient of UK aid next year, a controversial move given the backdrop...

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Derby Fire: Philpotts Guilty Of Child Deaths

By David Crabtree, Midlands Correspondent Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead have been found guilty of the manslaughter of six children in a fire at their house in Derby. Their friend Paul Mosley was also convicted of manslaughter over the petrol-fuelled...

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Fans' Plea To FA Over Homophobic Chants

Fans of Brighton and Hove Albion have appealed for action to tackle homophobic abuse which they say is levelled at them by opposition supporters because of the city's large gay community. Together with the Gay Football Supporters' Network (GSFN), they...

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Woman And Young Girl Die In Boat Tragedy

A 36-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl have died and a man is being treated in hospital after they suffered serious breathing difficulties on a boat. The alarm was raised at around 4pm when Cumbria Police and an ambulance were called to a private...

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Cashpoint Explosion: CCTV Of Thieves' Attack

Thieves used explosives to blow up a Hampshire petrol station's cashpoint in an attack captured on CCTV. Police issued a warning after the blast at the Texaco in Weyhill, which they say mirrors similar raids on cash machines in mainland Europe. Officers...

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Tory Chairman: Bedroom Tax 'Is Common Sense'

Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has insisted that withdrawing benefits from social housing tenants with spare rooms, which comes into effect today, is "common sense". Social tenants with one spare room will be deducted 14% and those with more...

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Hospitals Could 'Grind To Halt' In Shake-Up

Health experts have warned that NHS is "not ready" for the raft of changes implemented under the controversial health reforms - which come into effect today. The Health and Social Care Act, which became law after a tortuous passage through Parliament,...

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Richard III: Legal Row Over Leicester Burial

By David Crabtree, Midlands Correspondent A legal challenge is under way over where the 500-year-old remains of King Richard III should be finally laid to rest. The bones of the king were discovered under a council car park in Leicester, which...

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Plebgate: Mitchell's Scotland Yard Complaint

Ex-cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell has lodged a formal complaint against Scotland Yard over the apparent leaking of its report into the "Plebgate" affair. The senior Tory MP has written to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) accusing...

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