The family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler met the British Prime Minister today and said they were “delighted” that a full, judge-led inquiry will be held into the phone hacking scandal.

THE British government rejected advice from its own narcotics advisory body yesterday to lower the penalties for possessing the drug ecstasy, raising questions over the relevance of the expert panel.

A LIBERAL Democrat MP introduced legislation yesterday to end the bar on heirs to the British throne marrying Catholics.

Anti-abortion groups today accused the government of ‘‘cost-cutting’’ and being ‘‘obsessed’’ with abortion after it emerged that women are to be offered faster, easier terminations.