Commuters have been stuck on trains for up to four hours after a power supply problem affecting the UK’s biggest interchange station at Clapham Junction led to scenes of chaos.

You’re stood at a bus stop, feeling peckish but daren’t leave in case the bus turns up.

Camille O’Sullivan tells Jo Kerrigan about the intense experience of ’The Rape of Lucrece’.

The quips are quick, the wit, razor sharp.

A HUMAN river of anarchy flowed through London. It swelled from a blood-stained taxi in Tottenham and surged into a torrent which tore through the inner city, burst into affluent outer suburbs and briefly threatened to smash across the West End.

A London council tenant whose son has been charged in connection with riots in London is facing eviction, a council said today.

POLITICIANS faced a barrage of criticism for their response to the violence that has rocked Britain for four days.

London mayor Boris Johnson faced a barrage of criticism from angry residents this afternoon as he toured the devastation in riot-hit Clapham with British Home Secretary Theresa May.

Police chiefs and political leaders were struggling to restore calm to England’s streets today after riots spread across the country.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has cut short his family holiday and returned home to chair a meeting of his government's emergency committee following a third night of violent rioting across the UK.

THERE probably isn’t enough ink to do justice to an afternoon with Stuart Barnes. The former England international and Lion rolls out the stories and anecdotes — the late Keith Floyd figures in a few — in a steady stream.

A Kosovan orphan accused of murdering teenager Mary-Ann Leneghan told his social worker he had tortured her and her friend, a court heard today.

A boy left home alone by his depressed mother bravely did everything he could to disguise her disappearance as he fended for himself for nearly two weeks, his headteacher said tonight.