Massimo Cellino has announced he has resigned as president of Leeds but says he will return in April.

Massimo Cellino’s long-term future as Leeds owner has been cast into doubt despite the Italian businessman insisting he will accept disqualification by the Football League and then return in April.

Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has had his appeal against being disqualified as a director dismissed, the Football League has announced.

Embattled South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) Shaun Wright has cancelled a planned surgery today, saying no members of the public had booked an appointment.

South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) Shaun Wright should quit following the “devastating” report into child abuse in Rotherham, the UK's Labour Party has said.

There were swings towards Labour today as the party held its two seats in the parliamentary by-elections.

THE duchess of Cambridge may have been topless in those controversial pictures published by the Irish Daily Star on Saturday, but the tabloid editors and publishers, now scrambling for the high moral ground, are the emperors without any clothes.

The press watchdog tonight said it would be “inappropriate” to open an investigation into the Sun’s publication of nude photos of Prince Harry.

There have been 3,600 complaints to the press watchdog about naked photographs of Prince Harry published in the Sun.

Olympic superstar Usain Bolt ran rings around his opponents at London 2012 but can he tackle the hills of Donegal?

A wealthy businessman who sued after a tabloid made allegations about his involvement in a “sick Nazi orgy” called today for the creation of a press tribunal with powers to fine a newspaper group up to 10% of its turnover.

Ireland's Press Ombudsman has been called to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry next week.

Ireland’s Press Ombudsman has been called to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry next week.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair today told an inquiry into press ethics that he found it difficult to be "objective" about the issue of media relations.

Julian Assange has claimed he has suffered from inaccurate and negative media coverage “possibly on a scale not seen since the abuse of the McCanns”.

The press watchdog felt it had been made a “scapegoat” over its handling of the phone-hacking scandal, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

THE owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star said his newspapers were “scapegoated” for their coverage of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

A COALITION of women’s groups has called on the Leveson inquiry to widen its investigatory scope and include sexism and the negative portrayal of women in the British media.

Newspapers and magazines in the UK have agreed to two new rules in the Editors’ Code of Practice to “explode some popular fallacies about press self-regulation”, the editor of the Daily Mail said today.

Newspapers that engage in immoral behaviour to boost sales should be allowed to go to the wall, a Tory MP said today.

JK ROWLING described how journalists drove her out of her home and targeted her five-year-old daughter at school.

JK Rowling today told the UK's Leveson Inquiry that Britain's media watchdog the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) was “toothless” and journalists appeared “free to breach its code”.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation today withdrew its bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.

The British Prime Minister sounded the death knell of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) today.

BRITISH police believe the News of the World hacked phones belonging to relatives of the victims of the July 7, 2005, bombings in London, it emerged last night.

News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks said today she was “appalled and shocked” by allegations that a private investigator working for the News of the World hacked into schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone after she went missing.

KATE MIDDLETON’S family have contacted the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to raise their concerns following alleged “harassment” by photographers.

A complaint by Heather Mills that claims that Piers Morgan had introduced her to ex-husband Sir Paul McCartney were inaccurate has been rejected by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) in the UK.

Boyzone have performed together for the first time since the death of bandmate Stephen Gately.

A complaint that a newspaper comment piece about Boyzone star Stephen Gately’s death was “inaccurate”, “intrusive” and “discriminatory” was not upheld, the British Press Complaints Commission (PCC) said today.

Stephen Gately’s partner Andrew Cowles has formally lodged a complaint with the press standards watchdog regarding the Daily Mail’s controversial article by Jan Moir.

Allegations of phone tapping at Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper were dismissed today by the industry’s watchdog.

BRITAIN’S Press Complaints Commission received a record 21,000 complaints in relation to an article that appeared in the British edition of the Daily Mail criticising the “dangerous lifestyle” of the late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.

Police have received a complaint about an article written by newspaper columnist Jan Moir about the death of singer Stephen Gately, Scotland Yard said today.

A paternity test for baby-faced East Sussex "father" Alfie Patten will not be paid for by his local authority, sources have said.

THE father of a man who died in an area blighted by suicides told a public debate yesterday of the “stress and heartache” he suffered by repeatedly seeing his son’s photograph in the press.

THE suicide of Natasha Randall, an apparently happy 17-year-old, dragged the south Wales market town of Bridgend reluctantly into the global media spotlight.

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has said he was living in their family home for three years after he was declared dead.

Police in Brazil killed 33 suspected gang members and searched motorists at roadblocks in a bid to quell a wave of attacks on Sao Paulo’s police stations, courts and buses that had plunged South America’s largest city into fear.

Heavily-armed police guarded the deserted streets of South America’s largest city in Brazil through the night, after four days of unprecedented gang attacks that left 81 people dead.

A notorious Brazilian criminal gang has unleashed a second wave of attacks against police, bringing to at least 52 the number of people killed in what one official called the deadliest assault of its kind in Brazil’s history.

A wave of attacks on police by a notorious gang has killed at least 30 people - including 23 officers – in the bloodiest assault of its kind in the history of Brazil’s largest state, authorities said.