Voters in Bradford West are due to go to the polls to make their decision in a by-election prompted by the resignation of the constituency's MP.

The government should end its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income in overseas aid by next year, a parliamentary committee says.

A significant number of arts companies who lost all their core Arts Council England funding last year have shut down or are closing, research reveals.

The RSPB's annual wildlife survey has recorded the lowest number of starlings in UK gardens for 30 years.

The government made a mistake in advising people to store petrol in jerrycans to prepare for a possible strike by fuel tanker drivers, a minister says.

Most universities in England are going to have fewer places to offer students this year, as the funding changes in higher education are implemented.

Profits at clothing retailer H&M edge up after higher purchasing costs weighed on the company's performance.

The UK economy will contract in the first three months of 2012, taking the country back into recession, an international think tank suggests.