One of the UK's biggest power distributors has promised to almost triple compensation for people affected by long-term power cuts following the Christmas storms which swept Britain.

More than 2.5m British criminal records dating back to 1770 are being published online for the first time, including details of Victorian serial killers and habitual drunks banned from pubs.

The Impossible Dead

British Grand Prix organisers are this week attempting to establish how a man with “strong and moral views on religion” managed to run up Hangar Straight at Silverstone.