UKIP is to focus on wrestling the "blue-collar vote" from Labour and the Conservatives at its conference, which starts on Friday.

Trainer and two-time Grand National winner Toby Balding dies aged 78.

Nearly one in seven antibiotic treatments given out by GPs for common infections over the last two decades in the UK have failed, researchers say.

Customers with complaints about their gas or electricity service typically have to contact their supplier six times before their issue is resolved.

Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis will be sentenced later for indecently assaulting a researcher working on TV's Mrs Merton Show in 1995.

The Pentagon releases footage and still photos of its air strikes on oil refineries controlled by Islamic State militants in eastern Syria.

The House of Commons will vote later on whether the UK should join in US-led air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq.

The EU's anti-terrorism chief tells the BBC the number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000.