Two brothers who used their UK printing firm’s Christmas and New Year break to churn out £1.2m worth of fake banknotes have both been jailed for seven years.

Strong summer trading and aggressive expansion helped budget fashion chain Primark ring up a 22% surge in annual sales and beat profit expectations.

Museum bosses have pulled the plug on an art stunt featuring “grindcore” band Napalm Death because of fears that the din could cause the V&A to crumble.

Scottish police officers are being deployed to areas in England following rioting across the country.

Hundreds of people were arrested as Britain’s worst rioting in a generation spread from the capital to cities across the length and breadth of England.

BLAZING violence that stunned London for three days spread to urban centres across England despite the enormous police crackdown restoring a sense of order to the country’s capital.

RIOTING and looting spread to Manchester and the midlands from London last night, with plans to prevent a fourth night of violence on the streets of the capital appearing to have worked.

Rioting and looting spread to Manchester and the Midlands from London tonight with plans to prevent a fourth night of violence on the streets of the English capital appearing to have worked.

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.

PROVIDED the euro stays at between 85 and 88 pence sterling in 2011, Greencore, the Irish convenience food group, said it expects to deliver strong growth in the current financial year.

Comedian Frank Skinner told today how he lost millions of pounds as a “victim of the credit crunch”.

Slovakian left-back Marek Cech has revealed he wants to leave West Brom after claiming he has “been lied to” by manager Tony Mowbray

Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari with add youngsters Miroslav Stoch and Michael Woods to his injury-hit Chelsea squad for tomorrow’s trip to West Bromwich.

The UK’s most senior police officer warned tonight that there were no quick fixes for tackling knife crime, after four men were stabbed to death in Britain’s capital in less than 24 hours.

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Industrial gases group BOC today looked poised to become the latest heavyweight British firm to be taken into foreign ownership.

EUROPE’S second snowstorm this week piled drifts on tracks and roads yesterday, slowing rail service, stranding motorists and causing hundreds of traffic accidents. At least six deaths were attributed to a week of icy weather.

British police were today investigating the suspicious death of a 21-month-old girl.

A primary school teacher in the UK who downloaded photographs of child sex abuse from the Internet walked free from court today after claiming he had been revolted by the images.