A Banksy artwork cut down from a north London street is to be auctioned, just months after another in the same borough was controversially sold for a reported £750,000 (€869,000).

A Banksy mural that was removed from the side of a Poundland shop in the UK in mysterious circumstances could reach more than £450,000 when it is auctioned tonight.

Bookshops opened their doors early today for readers to get their hands on JK Rowling’s first novel for adults.

ON JANUARY 25, 2006, officials from a north London housing association repossessing a bedsit in Wood Green owing to rent arrears made a grim discovery.

Mourners turned out today to bid a final farewell to the police shooting victim whose death sparked the first night of devastating riots across England.

A man accused of robbing a Malaysian student in a raid which was caught on camera during last week’s riots in Britain has appeared in court.

THE riot that tore through parts of north London’s deprived Tottenham neighbourhood has cast a pall over Britain’s capital, echoing an earlier era of racial unrest, while spreading malaise through a city preparing to host the Olympic Games.

UK murder squad detectives suspect a teenager who was run over and killed by a bus may have been pushed in front of it.

Thousands of passengers were stranded today as ash from an Icelandic volcanic eruption caused the grounding of flights.

A 44-year-old man is to appear in court today charged with the murders of two soldiers and the attempted murder of six other people at a military base in the North.

The commanding officer of a soldier shot dead by the Real IRA outside his barracks in the North spoke today of the young man’s desire to help others before himself.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has insisted that the political process in the North will not be shaken by murder of two British soldiers on Saturday night.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson today announced new plans to help cut crime on buses by extending transport policing teams to 30 locations across the capital.

WHILE nine of the victims of the bombings have so far been named, many more remain unaccounted for.

A suspected al-Qaida terrorist who was plotting to use the deadly poison ricin has been jailed for life for the murder of a Special Branch detective in Britain, it can be revealed today.

A group representing Irish emigrants in Britain has criticised the sentence handed down to an Englishman convicted of killing a homeless Irishman in London last year.

A packed Tube train that derailed in central London, injuring 32 people, had been due to be taken out of service at the next station after a member of staff reported something might be wrong, London Underground said tonight.

POLICE in London yesterday launched a massive assault on what they described as probably the biggest organised crime group in Britain.

ANTI-TERRORIST detectives last night confirmed they discovered a mini-arsenal after a controversial raid on a London mosque.

British police were tonight questioning seven men over suspected terrorism offences following a controversial raid on a London mosque.

Fears of a terror attack on Britain were heightened today following the discovery of what appears to have been a makeshift laboratory for concocting the deadly poison ricin.

SIX terror suspects were being questioned by Scotland Yard detectives last night after traces of the deadly poison ricin were discovered.

Six terror suspects were being questioned by detectives today after traces of the deadly poison ricin were discovered, Scotland Yard said today.