A local man tells Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni that Woolwich suspect Michael Adebolajo "has been preaching extremist messages for years". ...

Police criticised for action in Ilford, which politicians and aid groups say leaves vulnerable people without shelter and foodPoliticians and aid groups have criticised the Metropolitan police for seizing the possessions ...

Department of Health to put £650,000 into increasing number of hospital offering staff US-style sessions to help combat stressA&E units are so busy they have been likened to warzones, a huge NHS reorganisation has b ...

A Pakistan passenger aircraft, en-route to Manchester, has been escorted to Stansted airport by RAF Typhoons     ...

Discoverer of Undertones calls for fresh inquiry into 2004 blaze that destroyed huge collection of Northern Irish punkIt was a blaze that wrecked businesses, destroyed 50,000 vinyl records and left a large part of Northe ...

Tighter security won't save us from more Woolwich-style attacks, but helping to protect those most at risk mightAlmost eight years ago, I lost one of my dearest school friends in the 7/7 terrorist attack on London's tran ...

Children's label Crewcuts sees White House aesthetic expand its influence over British life with its zingy take on preppy classicsThis weekend, in an operation masterminded from a minimalist-chic brick-and-glass headquar ...

Comedian Russell Brand explains what he found when he spent the day in WestminsterWhat does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean? I suppose that the narciss ...

Despite the IMF's criticism, the chancellor is confident the UK economy will improve by 2015, but is he being too optimistic?In the middle of a week the government will want to forget, George Osborne was in upbeat mood w ...

Airport temporarily closed and hundreds of flights cancelled after BA flight to Oslo is forced to land by technical faultA British Airways plane trailing smoke made an emergency landing on Friday morning at Heathrow, lea ...

Boris Johnson today admitted he had written a rap on the Queen's silver jubilee.     ...

The BBC apologised for a Question Time production gaffe that saw a Stormont minister labelled as being a member of "Sinn Fein/IRA".     ...

The 24-year-old woman was in the big cat's enclosure when she was mauled and seriously injured at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness. One of tigers is pictured inside a cage at the park. ...

London Bridge rail station reopens after reports of a security incident, in the latest of several security alerts across Britain's roads and airspace. ...

Guardian editor-in-chief also raises concerns over use of royal charter, saying it is 'a mechanism controlled by ministers'The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has urged the culture secretary, Maria Miller, to ...

Bank sees 11% of shareholders vote down the pay report as it is attacked by environmental campaigners, shareholders, former staff

The number of people volunteering to take part in clinical trials in England has trebled in the past five years. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British police closed one of the country's busiest motorways in both directions on Friday to deal with an incident which highway officials said involved a suspicious vehicle. ...

Michael Adebowale, 22, (pictured) was friends with his co-suspect Michael Adebolajo, 28, at Greenwich University, it emerged today. ...

The machinegunner and Drummer, 25, who recently served in Afghanistan, was run over and then hacked to death at 3pm on Wednesday by Islamist fanatics as he walked back to his south-east London barracks. ...

The 24-year-old woman was in the big cat's enclosure when she was mauled at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness. She was seriously injured and taken to Preston Royal Infirmary. ...

Ken Perkin, an 86-year-old former sergeant major, had his moustache forcibly shaved off by nurses at Kingston hospital, south London. His son Ian has made a complaint about his father's treatment. ...

The M6 is closed in both directions between two junctions in Warwickshire amid reports of a suspicious vehicle at a service station. ...

A 24-year-old is "seriously-injured" in hospital after she was attacked in the big cat enclosure of a UK wildlife park. ...

With one youth worker telling Channel 4 News that boys as young as 11 ask him if it is OK to strangle a girl while having sex, is it time to tackle the issue of children and pornography head-on? ...

Exhibition to include drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and one of the last drawings by Raphael before his deathA dazzling collection of old master drawings, originally assembled by the Ashmolean museum in Oxfo ...

It could be to do with class more than nationalityDo the Scots dislike the English? Overlook for the moment the lamentable generalisations inherent in any such question and think of Nigel Farage struggling with his ...

Google's Eric Schmidt has suggested they will be used for surveillance, but those who make them insist they have benefits"It was always a dream to build one, after having built helicopters in my bedroom for a while. I mo ...

Something about the convert experience may explain why a small minority, like the Woolwich attackers, find extremist messages attractiveNow that we know the two Woolwich attackers are converts to Islam, questions are bei ...

Twitter users are learning what a dangerous weapon they have at their fingertips, as Sally Bercow's 46-character tweet showsThe Speaker's wife has learned the hard way that while her husband and his fellow MPs make the l ...

Artist stopped working after shock of 23-year-old Dominic Elliott's sudden death in March but now vows to 'keep drawing' David Hockney has spoken for the first time about his inability to draw following the sudden death ...

Passengers on board a British Airways plane forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow praised the pilot's swift and "calm" actions and said he had averted potential disaster.     ...

London mayor Boris Johnson has discovered a mutual hero in Aristotle with actor Will Smith as he visited City Hall in London with his son Jaden Smith.     ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby says the response from the Muslim community has emphasised that this "brutal murder" has "no place in Islam". He added that this was very much the time for communit ...

Thousands of families have had their bank holiday break ruined after being stranded at Heathrow following the emergency landing of an Oslo-bound British Airways airbus.     ...

A van driver admits killing a mother of three in a series of hit-and-run incidents around the city of Cardiff in October. ...

A 24-year-old woman is seriously injured by a tiger at a zoo in Cumbria. ...

The M6 is closed in both directions in Warwickshire because of what police describe as a "suspicious vehicle". ...

Officers boarded Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709, which was bound for Manchester, after it landed at Stansted and removed the men from the plane. ...

Matthew Tvrdon, 31, from Cardiff, pleaded guilty to Karina Menzies' manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility - after the court heard he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. ...

Conservative councillor David Carr is facing calls to resign after a rant against travellers which has been condemned by the Gypsy Council as 'racist'. ...

It comes after officers swooped on three branches of the privately-run Bright Eyes Nurseries in Bromsgrove, Redditch and Droitwich, in Worcestershire. ...

The London Mayor revealed he wrote a rap for the Queen's Jubilee but was left in the shade by the A-List father and son as they gave advice to schoolchildren about how to keep out of trouble. ...

The elderly owner of the 11in moonflask vase, believed to date back to Imperial China, took the piece to an auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, after inheriting it many years ago. ...

Matthew Tyrdon, whose van collided with 14 people in Wales in October, has admitted killing a mother-of-three but denies murder. ...

Exclusive: a friend and neighbour of Woolwich suspect Michael Adebowale tells Channel 4 News she told him to "be careful, do the right thing" when he became a Muslim. ...

High court rules that up to 161 allegedly unlawful killings by British military should be subject of coroner-style hearingsA series of public inquests should be held into the deaths of civilians who are alleged to have b ...

British men held on suspicion of endangering aircraft after Manchester-bound flight is diverted to Stansted as a precautionTwo men have been arrested after a passenger jet from Pakistan was escorted into Stansted airport ...

Ivo Josipovic says British exit would have negative impact on trade bloc, as Croatia prepares to become 28th member stateThe president of the EU's newest member, Croatia, has urged Britain not to leave but instead to hel ...

Shares in largest British high street gold buyer H&T slide as it warns that every 10% fall in the price of gold would wipe about £2m off its profitsBritain's biggest pawnbroker on Friday warned the collapse in the g ...

Tens of thousands of fans expected in capital for final between Bundesliga sides Bayern Munich and Borussia DortmundIt is less than a mile from the home of the London club that broke Bayern hearts 12 months ago, but ther ...

Football Association president Prince William speaks to Uefa representatives and predicts a Bayern Munich 2-0 win in the Champions League at Wembley on Saturday     ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security ...

Sydney Cawsey was aged 13 years and nine months when he died alongside his father on a merchant naval vessel. He was awarded two medals posthumously after his ship was shelled in 1917. ...

Scientists say that the antioxidants found in purple GM tomatoes can more than double their shelf life from 21 days to 48 days. ...

Stephanie, from Braughing, Hertfordshire, wrote a list of her dying wishes after she was told her bone cancer was terminal at the start of this year. She died earlier this week. ...

Campaigners criticise 'sell-off' of sensitive services to private company that bungled Olympics security contractG4S, the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical examinations and coun ...

It could have been worse for David Cameron. IG spreadbetting founder Stuart Wheeler writes in The Spectator about the small fortune he missed out on when he sold his company shares. ...

Sharpen your quills. Independent publisher Notting Hill Editions has launched a £15,000 literary award for the best new essay in the English language. ...

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