Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, who has been charged with child sex offences including rape, will not appear in any further episodes pending the outcome of legal proceedings, ITV said.

An experiment to put every incident handled by one of Britain’s biggest police forces on social networking site Twitter was hailed a success today.

Manchester police in the UK have offered to assist in the compilation of a report on the treatment of Bolton fans by Spanish police during the club’s UEFA Cup game against Atletico Madrid.