An urgent review is needed relating to regulations concerning the fire risk of timber-framed buildings under construction, fire chiefs in the UK have said.

THE family of a 90-year-old Second World War veteran, who died after being violently robbed in his home, appealed for help yesterday to catch his killer.

The chairwoman of the UK's Electoral Commission described the current system as “Victorian” today after voters were left queuing in their hundreds outside polling stations when the ballot boxes closed.

TWO children, including a three-week-old baby and a seven-year-old, died last night after a fire ripped through a south London tower block.

CONTROVERSIAL Irish playwright Martin McDonagh celebrated an Oscar triumph in Los Angeles on Sunday night but the star of McDonagh’s short film was deported by US immigration before the ceremony even began.

WELCOME to a house with two different faces, and a lot going on inside: attractive on the outside, it has got an interior which is even better than its varied facades suggest.

AN artist who shot to fame by rolling a monkey nut seven miles with his nose yesterday announced his latest bizarre stunt.

A BRITISH coroner yesterday called for greater public vigilance to combat the danger of internet chatrooms at the inquest into a man who leapt to his death after meeting another man at a chatroom called Assisted Suicide Holidays.

A long lost musical collaboration between Mick Jagger and John Lennon was today being auctioned more than a quarter of a century after it was recorded.

A long lost musical collaboration between Mick Jagger and John Lennon has been unearthed more than a quarter of a century after it was recorded, it emerged today.