A UK hospital has admitted negligence after staff mistakenly monitored a mother's heart rate instead of her baby's.

A four-year-old girl died after a car crash, police in Britain said today.

A policeman who bludgeoned to death his police constable fiancee just hours before they were due to fly to St Lucia for their wedding was jailed for life today.

A baby escaped serious injury after a man in Halloween fancy dress set off an industrial-style firework in an off-licence, police in England said today.