Margaret Thatcher voiced concern that a 1989 report into the Hillsborough disaster constituted a “devastating criticism” of police, previously-unpublished Cabinet papers revealed today.

Travelling circuses will be banned from using wild animals in their shows in Britain, it was announced today.

Ron Atkinson was tonight counting the cost of a racist outburst which shocked the world of football and forced him to resign from his post at ITV Sport.

World Sports Solutions, the company which markets stars including England footballer Rio Ferdinand, is to be wound up, it emerged today.

Proceedings which could decide the release of the killers of toddler James Bulger are set to get under way in private.