Australians win show garden prize

Prince Harry meets the creators of the Trailfinders Australian Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show

4:17pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

An Australian team has won the best show garden prize for the first time in the Chelsea Flower Show's 100-year-history - with one of its members celebrating by stripping off and going for an impromptu swim.

Stafford-row NHS boss to retire

David Nicholson has faced numerous calls to resign over the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

3:52pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Embattled NHS boss Sir David Nicholson plans to retire next year.

Last-ditch appeal over measles jabs

The programme to inoculate thousands of children at risk from the measles epidemic in the greater Swansea area ends this week

3:45pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Health chiefs are appealing to children still unprotected against measles to sign up to an in-school vaccination drive before it ends.

BAE fined for 'preventable tragedy'

BAE Systems has been fined nearly 350,000 pounds over the death of a worker

3:39pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Defence giant BAE Systems has been ordered to pay almost £350,000 in fines and costs after a worker died when he was crushed by a 145-tonne metal press at one of its sites, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed.

Interflora wins M&S trademark case

A judge ruled that the use by M and S of the 'Interflora' trademark as a Google Adword was trademark infringement

3:16pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Flower delivery network Interflora has won its long-running trademark dispute with Marks & Spencer.

'Strong evidence' of burnt remains

April Jones vanished while playing on her bike with her best friend last year (Dyfed-Powys Police/PA)

3:16pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Experts found "very strong evidence" of burnt human skull remains at the home of the man accused of murdering April Jones, a jury has heard.

Mother's pride at son's VC honour

Lance Corporal James Ashworth was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross

2:38pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

The mother of a "supremely courageous and inspiring" British soldier who died as he protected the lives of his comrades in a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has spoken of her pride after accepting his posthumous Victoria Cross (VC).

Briton in Everest triple peak coup

Kenton Cool and Sherpa Dorje Gylgen at 7,900m on Mount Everest (Kentoncool/PA)

1:54pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Britain's most successful mountaineer has become the first person to scale the three peaks of Mount Everest's Western Cwm in one climb.

Treasury not to be trusted: Salmond

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon launch a paper outlining the nation's key economic strength as an independent country

1:52pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A claim that the UK Treasury deliberately undervalued Scotland's oil in the 1970s to head off the threat of nationalism is evidence that it cannot be trusted in the independence campaign, according to the First Minister.

Mother suspect in girl murder probe

Sarah Dahane was found dead at a house in Bicester, Oxfordshire, on May 16 (Thames Valley Police/PA)

12:48pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Detectives are treating the death of a 20-month-old girl as murder and have named her mother as a suspect.




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I wish the government would get on with allowing TfL to takeover the southeastern metro routes. Apparently it is still possible so hopefully local politicians are pushing for this. It would lead to a much improved service as happened when they took over routes which became London Overground in north London. − JJ4000

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This vaccine is NOT 100% safe & my wife and I will continue to defy this political campaign, by refusing to poison our kids with this dangerous vaccine. − goldenbroomboy

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