Marverine Cole

We're not cutting the deficit fast enough and we need to do more. There's 'no miracle cure' to fix our economic ills.

It's the news that everyone's been waiting for. The Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant.

UBS Bank is back in the headlines. Just a few days after a former trader at its London office, Kweku Adoboli was jailed for losing the bank £1.4 billion pounds in risky deals.

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport mean business. Work has already started on a draft bill which incorporates what's now being known as the Leveson Principles.

As the parents of Milly Dowler arrived in London to hear Lord Justice Leveson's conclusions on what should happen to rein in the British Press

He's been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for a several months now, and his self-imposed exile is apparently making him ill.

We'll find out today just how corrupt Lord Justice Leveson believes the British press is and what should be done to put a stop to some of its dubious activities.

Government plans for minimum alcohol unit pricing are the wrong way to tackle a huge problem, argues Marverine Cole

There could soon be a cap on the minimum price that can be charged for alcohol in England and Wales.

A French citizen has been kidnapped in Mali, in West Africa. The country's President Francois Hollande confirmed the details earlier today during a meeting in Paris.

Tributes are being paid to two senior chefs – who worked for Heston Blumenthal – who were killed in a horrific bus crash in Hong Kong.

Businesses and individuals who avoided tax between 2010 and 11 have cost Britain around £5 billion.

Tens of thousands of students will take to the streets of London today in protest at the rise in the cost of further education and the huge hike in University tuition fees.

All ten people on board a Yemeni military transport plane have died after it crashed near Sanaa airport. The plane - which was out on a training exercise - came down in an empty market place. Officials say the crash was caused by a technical error.

The decision not to allow women to be ordained as bishops has rocked the Church of England. Its leaders have reconvened at the General Synod for talks this morning after last night's damning vote where the two-thirds majority needed to make it happen

The head of the military wing of Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, is dead. Commander of the al-Qassam Brigades, Ahmed al-Jaabari and his deputy, who was with him in the car, were killed instantly in the explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike.

It's Britain's third largest supermarket and it's bound to be making the Top Two in the game very nervous indeed. Sainsbury's half-year pre-tax underlying profits are up to £373m and its share of the market is the highest in almost a decade, to 16.7%

A second documentary about child abuser Jimmy Saville is set to be aired by ITV next week.

The Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, is all set to make a statement about allegations of gas price fixing in the House of Commons today.

Police on the Caribbean island of Belize say they want to question the British born creator of antivirus software, John McAfee over the death of his next door neighbour.

Home Secretary Theresa May has vowed to continue to do everything to 'get rid of' radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada despite his release from prison today.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury's going to be formally announced and it's being widely reported that a shining star in the Church of England, Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham has accepted the position.

We can work it out. Well we're trying to anyway!! Smiling through gritted teeth, Prime Minister David Cameron and German Finance Minister Angela Merkel met last night to work out their differences over next year's EU budget.

Devastation in the mountainous state of San Marcos in Guatemala - as shown on a local TV station. Scores of people trapped under rubble after an earthquake - which measured 7.4 on the Richter scale - struck 15 miles south of its Pacific coast.

Countless embarrassing tabloid headlines speculating over various methods of tax avoidance by big names like Jimmy Carr and singer Gary Barlow have annoyed people these last few months.

Radical Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary's back in the headlines. This time with comments on his personal Twitter account with the tagline BIN YOUR POPPY saying.

It's official. The Australian people have well and truly fallen in love with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall as they continue their second leg of their Pacific tour. All, of course, to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Rapid response to a gruesome scene in California after a crazed man drew a gun on fellow workers at a meat factory, killing two of them before turning the weapon on himself.

The PM's visiting the Middle East with Defence Minister Philip Hammond and - in what's being seen as a highly contentious move here at home - Britain is set to start discussions with Syrian rebels today.