The three Labour MPs facing criminal charges over their expenses claims were been suspended from the party today.

David Cameron will pledge today to change the law to prevent the “disgusting sight” of MPs using parliamentary privilege in a bid to avoid prosecution for expenses abuses.

PROSECUTORS charged three MPs and one peer yesterday with false accounting over alleged abuses of the parliamentary expenses system.

Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer in the UK said today they would defend themselves against charges of false accounting arising from their claims for parliamentary expenses.

Former minister Elliot Morley became the 13th MP to quit following the expenses revelations as a poll today showed his party with its lowest yet rating.

The politicians' expenses scandal in Britain was poised to claim another victim today after a second Labour MP admitted claiming thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash for a non-existent mortgage.

Another clutch of embarrassing British parliamentary expenses claims were revealed today as the public mood over the revelations turned increasingly angry.

BRITAIN’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday suspended ex-minister Elliot Morley from the Parliamentary Labour Party and an aide to Tory leader David Cameron quit his post, as the Westminster expenses scandal claimed its first scalps.

Gordon Brown today ordered Labour’s chief whip to probe details of ex-minister Elliot Morley’s £16,000 (€17,807) expenses claim for mortgage interest he did not pay.

THE first genetically modified superweed has been discovered in Britain — the result of GM oilseed rape cross-breeding with a common weed.

Climate change could cause a dramatic slump in vital crop yields for future generations in China, government-published research said today.

Council chiefs in England have called on the British government today to turn back a fleet of so-called “ghost ships” heading for the UK.

GENETICALLY modified crops could offer some cost and convenience advantages to British farmers, Downing Street said yesterday.

Health authorities are to get powers to dramatically increase the fluoridation of drinking water in England and Wales.

The British Government is acting to try and curb the death toll of dolphins and other cetaceans being killed accidentally by fishing gear.

Some 250 people have rallied at Fraserburgh's fish market to show their opposition to the EU's fishing quota cuts.

European plans to slash fishing levels by up to 80% to conserve dwindling marine stocks are “tainted by political interference”, it was claimed tonight.

Fisheries ministers disagreed today on compromise proposals that seek to save cod from near extinction in EU waters without driving thousands of fishermen into bankruptcy.

Farmers were today anxiously waiting to discover the outcome of tests on a suspected case of foot-and-mouth at a British farm.