The Social Network and The King's Speech dominate the London Film Critics' Circle awards, where the former is named film of the year.

Peter Stringer is added to Ireland's squad for Sunday's Six Nations game against France because of doubts over Tomas O'Leary's fitness.

The father of two missing Swiss twin girls searched websites on guns and poison before killing himself, police say.

An official announcement is due about which football club will take over the Olympic Stadium in east London after next year's Games.

The funeral of landscape architect Jo Yeates, who was found dead in Bristol, is due to take place later on Friday.

An ambulance was not called to help a dying woman because the crew still had two minutes of a meal break left, an inquest is told.

The system for calculating most domestic fuel bills in the UK is contributing to thousands of deaths each winter, public health experts say.

Millions of people in England and Wales who work or volunteer with children will no longer need criminal record checks, ministers say.