A cramped understairs cupboard has been put up for rent in London for £500 a month, plus a share of the bills.

Never say never. A boy who has repeatedly tried to meet royalty will realise his dream in Galway today.

Considering he had blown enough fuses in his time to put the lights out all over Limerick, Jamie Cudmore was always liable to leave Munster in a dark place.

Rogue landlords in England rented out a squalid house with a tree branch growing through it for up to £40,000 annually, a south London council estimates.

Former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife were both freed from prison today after serving around a quarter of their eight-month sentences for swapping speeding points.

Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are both facing jail in England after she was convicted of perverting the course of justice by taking speeding points for him a decade ago.

As the debate raged on, Kate Midleton took it all in her stride.

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FROM an organic chef and an opera house steward to a university student, a surprising picture has emerged of some of the alleged troublemakers behind Britain’s worst riots for decades.

As well as scenes of trouble across several London boroughs, “copycat” looting and rioting was experienced as far afield as Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and Nottingham.

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

Much of London shut down early today as 16,000 police officers took to the streets ahead of a feared fourth night of rioting, looting and arson.

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.

Ugly scenes of violence, rioting and looting have spread across England since erupting three days ago.

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

Swathes of London were burning tonight as the most devastating night of rioting so far raged across the capital for a third day.

Rioters were rampaging across Britain’s capital again tonight as politicians and police chiefs tried desperately to curb the “sheer criminality”.

I’M WATCHING Escape to the Country, a TV programme in which a couple in their early thirties is looking at different houses with a view to buying one and living in it.

DRAMATIC phone calls have revealed how the emergency services struggled to cope with the chaos sparked by the July 7 suicide bomb attacks in London.

Dramatic phone calls revealed tonight how London emergency services struggled to cope with the chaos sparked by the July 7 suicide bomb attacks.

A VIOLENT robber who helped rape and torture a couple in their home during an ordeal of “unbelievable brutality” was jailed indefinitely in order to protect the general public yesterday.

A YOUNG couple will be hoping to get their forthcoming marriage off on the right track.

UK supermarket chain Waitrose continued its recent expansion today by announcing an agreement to acquire four sites from Woolworths.

POLICE analysts have created a startling picture of London’s growing youth gang culture.

MORE armed police officers will be deployed to the streets of south London in a bid to halt an “unprecedented” spate of shootings which has claimed the lives of three teenage boys.

The alleged poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko recalls the case of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, who was assassinated nearly 30 years ago.

Two footballers provided valuable inside information to raiders in a payroll robbery that ended in murder, the Old Bailey in London heard today.

Waterstone’s owner HMV ditched the name of newly-acquired Ottakar’s today as it outlined plans to close bookshops and offices, which could threaten around 200 jobs.

Two men were being questioned today by detectives investigating the failed July 21 bomb attacks following raids in south London.

Armed police investigating the failed July 21 bomb attacks have arrested two men in London, Scotland Yard said tonight.

Department store group Debenhams hailed the popularity of its designer-led strategy today after achieving further growth in sales and profits.

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Freed jungle hostage Mark Henderson finally made it home for Christmas today.

Anti-war protesters literally spelled out their message to the US President tonight – Bush Go Home.

Catholic Church mediators who travelled to the jungles of northern Colombia to try to negotiate the release of seven foreign tourists said they were heading home after receiving no word from rebels behind the mass abduction.

Substitute Geoff Horsfield scored an injury-time winner to virtually guarantee Premiership survival for Birmingham and send local rivals West Brom closer to the relegation trapdoor.

CHILD abuse victim Victoria Climbie died of hypothermia after being kept naked and bound in a freezing bathroom, an inquiry into her death established.

Self-heating crockery, a flying saucer camera and an underwater bike were just three of the wacky British inventions being revealed at a show today.

A head count was today being carried out at an immigration removal centre hit by a major fire to determine the number of asylum seekers who escaped.

A major fire was raging ‘‘out of control’’ today after an attempted breakout from a British detention centre housing asylum seekers.

The first six contestants on a new reality TV show were today preparing to survive three months in a snake-infested rainforest.