A rampant England score four first-half tries against Italy at half-time at Twickenham. before Scotland host Wales on the second weekend of this year's Six Nations championship.

An inquiry into the monitoring of a sex offender who murdered a girl he met online has highlighted "flaws" in a police number plate system.

About 4,000 Post Office counter staff are to be balloted for strikes in a row over pay, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) says.

British photographer Giles Duley is undergoing an operation in the UK after being gravely injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

West Ham co-owner David Gold says the endorsement of their bid to move into the 2012 Olympic Stadium represented a "great day for Great Britain".

People who use the internet will get a new opportunity to complain about misleading websites from 1 March.

National tourism body VisitScotland suffers new funding blows in the wake of budget cuts by Scottish councils.

Hundreds of specialist debt advisers facing redundancy have won a temporary reprieve after the government found £27m.