A FATHER who threw his two children off a hotel balcony, killing his son, won permission to launch a High Court challenge yesterday against an inquest verdict of unlawful killing.

No action is to be taken in the UK against a man who threw his six-year-old son to his death from a hotel balcony in Crete, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today.

The mother of a six-year-old English boy who fell to his death from a hotel balcony has urged the British authorities to prosecute his father for pushing him.

A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning after illegally siphoning diesel from a Texaco garage.