Britain's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to the British Government’s senior law officer for “urgent clarification” why two doctors accused of arranging abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby will not face prosecution.

The Hillsborough disaster tribute single topped the charts today to become the 2012 Christmas number one.

The High Court is being asked today to quash the original accidental death inquest verdicts returned after 96 Liverpool football fans died in the crush at Hillsborough 23 years ago.

British Prime Minister David Cameron bowed to political pressure today to hold inquiries into the phone-hacking scandal and the original police investigation which failed to get to the bottom of it.