British Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell warned former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that a phone hacking inquiry would be open to legal challenge, documents released by the Cabinet Office reveal.

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BRITAIN’S previous government did “all it could” to help Libya win the release of the only man convicted of the Pan Am bombing in Scotland in 1988, though it insisted the decision was made entirely by Scottish officials, Britain’s senior civil servant said yesterday.

Britain's former Labour government did “all it could” to help Libya secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Britain’s top civil servant said today.

A dossier of official documents shedding light on the release of the Lockerbie bomber will be published today.

David Cameron was today offered the keys to 10 Downing Street, after Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said that the Conservatives had the “first right” to seek to form a government in Britain’s first hung Parliament since 1974.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was fighting to keep Labour in power today by tempting the Liberal Democrats into a coalition government as Britain seemed set for a hung parliament.

A HUNG parliament comes about when no single party has a majority of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons after the general election.

Gordon Brown will try to draw a line under the damaging Downing Street bullying row today after he flatly dismissed claims he intimidated junior staff.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown fought back against claims he terrified staff with his volcanic temper in book extracts which posed a new threat to his general election prospects.

The head of an anti-bullying charity hit out at British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tonight after revealing several Downing Street staff have called its helpline.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised and announced an investigation yesterday amid angry questions about how private records containing nearly half of Britain’s bank details vanished in the post.

The British Government will examine the possibility of including police in the new Border Force, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said today.

British Conservative Party leader David Cameron today renewed his call for a Whitehall inquiry into the allegation that lives were put at risk by a series of leaks about anti-terror operations.