The BBC has responded to criticism by the Archbishop of Canterbury about its handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.

Former Tour de France and Giro d'Italia winner Stephen Roche believes it would be "humanly impossible" for Chris Froome to win all three grand tour races in one year.

Consumers are expected to snap up the last of the most powerful vacuum cleaners on the market as a new law banning those rated above 900 watts comes into effect.

Latest: A chemical cloud which forced coastline evacuations across East Sussex in England on Sunday is "very unlikely" to have floated over from northern France, authorities said.

A star in the making.

Kevin Myers has apologised for the anti-semitic remark that saw him sacked as a columnist from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

Wildfires raging through the French Riviera have forced holidaymakers to flee as parts of the region including campsites were evacuated.

Latest: Families of the Birmingham pub bombing victims have been reacting to an interview tonight in which self confessed IRA bomber and suspect for the bombings Michael Christopher Hayes has said he is sorry innocent people were killed.

Theresa May has faced heckles from the public after visiting the London mosque targeted in a terror attack.

Witnesses have told how they were woken by screaming in the early hours after a fire hit 27-storey Grenfell Tower in north Kensington.

Conservative and Labour figures reacted cautiously to the exit poll predicting Theresa May could have lost her overall majority.

A surfer rescued after more than 30 hours stranded at sea has been discharged from hospital after making a "remarkable" recovery.

A surfer rescued after more than 30 hours stranded at sea thought he was going to die just moments before he was found by a helicopter.

Brexit, says Milk The Cow podcast, is “Like when Geri Halliwell overestimated her viability as a solo artist and left the Spice Girls.”

We don’t know how Kelly kept his composure, we sure couldn’t.

A senior Labour MP says he suspects Jeremy Corbyn voted for Brexit after the party leader declined to tell him which way he cast his ballot.

British prime minister David Cameron has pleaded with parents and grandparents to vote to stay in the EU for the sake of the younger generations of Britons.

AVG has released a list of the worst performance killing apps on Android, and Snapchat has the unenviable honour of coming out on top.

The upsurge of migrants heading to Europe from Africa is threatening to undermine living standards and social structures in the EU, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond has warned.

Disaster struck this morning for BBC newsreader Carol Walker as the news programme started four minutes early.

The finale of Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May failed to break records when it bowed out with 5.8m viewers.

Facebook’s free mobile data scheme, Internet.org, has been criticised by digital-rights groups from around the world who say the initiative is unfair and threatens net neutrality.

Facebook’s free mobile data scheme Internet.org has been criticised by digital rights groups from around the world, who say the initiative is unfair and threatens net neutrality.

Nigel Farage has described David Cameron as “somebody we can sit down and talk to” after the election in the event of a hung parliament.

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has thanked the hundreds of thousands of fans who have backed him after his suspension.

Terry Pratchett spoke candidly about facing his own death after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

Genetic mutations linked with leukaemia are “almost inevitable” as people get older, new research suggests.

ENGLAND: A TV journalist has been described as being as “cool as a cucumber” for carrying on without flinching when he was the victim of a snowball attack while live on a news channel.

The search for a man who is missing at sea after he was caught by a large wave as he reportedly spread his sister's ashes off the English coast has been called off.

Lifeboats involved in the search for the crew of an overturned cargo vessel have been stood down for the night.

A major rescue operation has been launched after a cargo vessel believed to be carrying eight people overturned off the north of Scotland.

The highest of fives. Impressive.

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“Pretend like you haven’t noticed”

A 53-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a blaze in a fireworks warehouse in the UK.

One person is unaccounted for after a large blaze broke out at a fireworks factory, police said tonight.

SPACE ASHES

A video apparently showing the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning has been released on the internet.

On September 1, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan said “the invasion of Ukraine is against international law and must stop”, (RTÉ News). He made no reference to Nato’s role as one of the root causes of the conflict.