Claire O’Sullivan examines the London timeline and finds Neil Prendeville’s excuse simply doesn’t add up.

Twenty-five degrees, read the dashboard thermometer as we drove west out of the city – what a day, of all days in this dysfunctional summer, to have had to spend indoors.

POLICE are investigating the death of children’s television presenter Mark Speight, amid speculation his body had remained undetected in a building adjacent to Paddington Station for several days.

IS today the last flight? one man asked a woman at the check-in desk before the 7.40am flight to Heathrow on Friday.

Secret details of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s movements were accidentally leaked by one of his bodyguards, it emerged today.

Train drivers at one of the UK's biggest rail operators are to stage three 24-hour strikes in a row over hours which union leaders warned would cripple services.

Several people were injured today after explosions blamed on a power surge closed down the entire London Underground network.

RAIL firm Thames Trains was facing unlimited fines yesterday after pleading guilty to breaking health and safety laws in the Paddington rail disaster.

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has advised that no charges should be made over the Paddington rail crash, in which 31 people were killed.