A quality assurance scheme for advocates in criminal trials in England and Wales comes into operation.

The retrial of Amanda Knox over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher is to open in Italy, but the American will not be in court.

The UK economy is recovering – but how balanced is the growth that is being generated?

Class A drugs should be decriminalised and drug addicts "treated and cared for not criminalised", according to a senior UK police officer.

The long-term unemployed will have to undertake work placements in return for their benefits, the Chancellor George Osborne explains.

The Channel Tunnel operator announces a joint bid to take over the running of the London to Scotland rail route.

Energy firm SSE says it expects to report a loss at its retail arm in the first half of its financial year but aims to increase its full-year dividend.

A former Sun newspaper reporter is the first person to be charged under Operation Tuleta - a police investigation into alleged computer hacking and other privacy breaches.