SENIOR British police officers last night insisted there would be no change to a controversial shoot-to-kill policy after an innocent man was gunned down.

A watersports centre confirmed today that two of the London bombers took part in a whitewater rafting trip just weeks before the attacks.

The hunt for the killers of six British soldiers in Iraq was continuing today after the British government warned it would be days before the truth of what happened emerged.

A massive clean-up operation was under way today after violent thunderstorms wreaked havoc across parts of the UK, emergency services said.