The UK has just experienced its "strangest" weather on record, scientists have confirmed.

A three-year-old girl dies in hospital, three days after a house fire in Harlow which killed her mother and all four of her siblings.

Labour accuses Prime Minister David Cameron of dodging his weekly Commons question session, after MPs' sitting dates for next year are announced.

A public inquest into the death of Mark Duggan may never be held without a change to the law on intercept evidence, MPs warn.