The Department for Education apologises after giving inaccurate figures about the number of school playing fields sold off in England.

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on Picasso's Child with a Dove, in the hope that money can be raised to keep the painting in the UK.

New police and crime commissioners elected by the public will be required to swear an "oath of impartiality", the Home Office confirms.

Two people are feared to have died when a light aircraft crashes near Chester, Cheshire police say.

A former news editor at the News of the World Scotland is arrested and charged in connection with the perjury trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan.

Facebook shares fall heavily as the first lock-up period, which had prevented sales by early investors, ends.

Norway's head of police, Oeystein Maeland, resigns after an inquiry found that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik could have been stopped.

Moors Murderer Ian Brady is believed to have revealed information about where victims Keith Bennett is buried, police say after arresting a woman over preventing a burial.