Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs was a notable absentee for training at the club’s Carrington complex this morning after finding himself at the centre of a media storm.

Britain's law on injunctions was thrown into further turmoil after the high-profile footballer at the centre of a controversial privacy case in the UK was named.

The footballer at the centre of a gagging order over a relationship with reality TV star Imogen Thomas was named by an MP in the Commons today.

The footballer at the centre of a gagging order over a relationship with reality TV star Imogen Thomas was named by an MP in the Commons today.

The most senior judges in England and Wales have been accused of trying to gag the media after criticising politicians who have deliberately disclosed the content of privacy cases covered by injunctions.

THE wife of a Liberal Democrat MP yesterday denied burgling the home of her husband’s lover and stealing a kitten.

IRELAND’S hopes of causing an upset in the Women’s World Cup evaporated in Surrey last night, as England gradually ground them down before recording a bonus-point win.

A warehouse worker without a record deal was nominated for one of the music industry’s most prestigious awards today alongside international artists including Coldplay and Duffy.

There is insufficient evidence to bring a prosecution over the death of ITN journalist Terry Lloyd, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service said today.

One of the terror suspects arrested last week in Birmingham has been charged with plotting to kidnap and kill a member of the British armed forces, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

A young mother of an eight-month-old baby and a 17-year-old youth were among 11 people charged in Britain tonight in connection with the alleged airliner bomb plot.

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne's elder sister claims he deserved to be burgled, as payback for the similar crimes he committed in his youth.