A police officer has today been cleared of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in 2009.

A police officer killed newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson in “a gratuitous act of aggression” while his “blood was up”, a court has heard.

Unite has been given an extension to a deadline for declaring strikes in the British fuel tanker drivers dispute so that peace talks can continue.

THE Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would carry out a “thorough review” of its decision not to prosecute a police officer linked to the death of Ian Tomlinson at G20 protests in 2009 after an inquest ruled he was unlawfully killed.

Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed by a Scotland Yard officer at the G20 protests, an inquest jury ruled today.

RELATIVES of Ian Tomlinson stormed out of his inquest after the police officer who pushed the newspaper seller to the ground during the G20 protests told an inquest he wanted to “help the family”.

Family members of Ian Tomlinson were in tears today as an inquest jury was shown harrowing new video of the newspaper seller dying at the G20 protests.

Talks aimed at averting a series of strikes by British Airways cabin crew ended in disarray tonight after scores of demonstrators stormed the building where the meeting was being held.

GUY HARWOOD yesterday paid a warm tribute to his former stable jockey Greville Starkey, who died on Wednesday at the age of 70 after an eight-year battle with cancer.

The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urged President Barack Obama to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s pestered by a fly in the White House.

A British gambling executive convicted in a bribery plot is being transferred from a US prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in England, his lawyer said.

WHEN Pat Eddery talks about horses, you listen.

Tony Clark has announced his retirement from the saddle at the age of 42.

The complete professional. That is the unanimous view of all those who have worked with and ridden against Pat Eddery.

A deadly seal virus is sweeping across the seas of Northern Europe and is threatening to match the devastating epidemic of 14 years ago that wiped out half the seal population in those waters, said an international study released tonight.