A 71-year-old widow in the UK has been fined for stealing flowers from a child’s grave after being reported to police by her daughter.

SCIENTISTS for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development that experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.

A “miracle” baby was brought back to life after being born clinically dead, it emerged today.

Concern that the UK’s “debt crisis” was spiralling out of control increased in 2006 with a record number of people failing to keep their heads above water.

A dramatic rescue operation was underway tonight after flash floods trapped scores of people in cars and buildings in the UK.