Five major UK internet service providers are ordered by the High Court to prevent users from accessing popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.

Dwain Chambers is free to compete at the Olympics as a court overturns the BOA's lifetime ban on drug cheats.

Three Brighton and Hove Albion footballers and a Bournemouth player are charged with sexually assaulting a woman and voyeurism.

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is one of the guests moved to safety before a major fire destroys the Best Western Falmouth Beach Hotel in Cornwall.

Colin Murray introduces highlights from Chelsea v QPR and Spurs v Blackburn. (UK users only)

An average of more than 21 cannabis factories were found daily last year, police chiefs say.

A rise in the cost of stamps - taking the cost of first-class to 60p - has come into force after weeks of stockpiling by some consumers.

The civil service pension scheme has become the government's first mutualised Whitehall service, a move which ministers say will increase productivity and save taxpayers money.