Almost three years after the devastating death of her husband, playwright Jack Rosenthal, Maureen Lipman has found new happiness. The 60-year-old actress has begun a relationship with Scottish businessman David Gordon, also 60...

Seventy men arrested by police investigating abuses of the immigration system are now being dealt with by the Home Office. Searches were carried out at 22 sites in Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Ellesmere Port, Sheffield and Kent...

Teenagers are to be given the opportunity to learn "economically useful" languages such as Mandarin alongside French and German, the Government has confirmed...

By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:09am GMT 05/02/2007 Twice as many Islamist terror plots have been disrupted since the July 7 suicide bombings as has previously been made public, Britain's security services...

Mentally-ill patients and their families need more protection under the Mental Health Bill, MPs and peers have said. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) said the Bill, currently with the House of Lords, needs amending...

The families of the two experienced pilots who died when their light aircraft crashed into the sea off Blackpool said they would be "sadly missed"...

FOR a second time the spectre of bird flu has raised its head in Britain. A turkey farm in England, where hundreds of birds have developed the bug, has been quarantined...

A SUPER-FAST train service between Glasgow and London, with speeds of up to 125mph, was launched today. The first of the new speeded-up tilting trains, capable of travelling flat out on the West Coast main line, left Glasgow Central this morning...

Prince William carried out a mock mountain rescue as he abseiled down a rock face, guiding a stretcher to safety...

POLICE and council chiefs have been slammed over their handling of a youth who murdered a teenage girl. And the victim's father today hit out at the authorities over his daughter's murder...

A man who lost his daughter in the London bombings has criticised the government for being "too blase" about security before the 7 July attacks...

Scientists have found that common infections in mothers and babies may trigger certain types of childhood cancers...

Detectives hunting the killers of a policewoman gunned down in Bradford, said on Monday they had arrested one of the key suspects in the case in Newport, Wales...

Hundreds of schools will stay closed for a second day after the fire at the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire. The local council says the nursery, primary and secondary schools closed on Monday will not re-open on Tuesday...

A group representing NHS managers is calling for more to be done to improve care to patients who are dying...