Nicholas Edmondson

David Cameron's leafy Oxfordshire constituency performs well but inner-city children face uncertain future.

Entertainment company blames 'weak' video game market for continuing decline.

Fierce competition for education leads to deadly crush as enrolment opens for thousands of would-be students.

Sun editor Dominic Mohan warns Leveson inquiry heavy regulation could be ‘mortal blow’

The head of the Swiss Central Bank, Philipp Hildebrand, has stepped down amid a storm of suspicion following a currency transaction made by his wife.

Sun's Bizarre editor Gordon Smart tells Leveson public interest often outweighs stars' privacy.

Leveson inquiry told by former Sun editor that Guardian follows different rules to tabloids

Brave son dies after returning to blazing Lancashire home to rescue siblings.

Erin Langworthy's terror plunge into crocodile-Infested Zambezi River captured on film.

Memory, reasoning and comprehension start to decline 15 years earlier than previously thought, study claims.

Tenants of Housing Association Properties Should Be Able To Buy Their House, backbench MPs argue.

Beer guts men's biggest body issue - ask Russell Crowe, Alec Baldwin and Boy George.

Global companies urged to emphasise human rights in face of growing child exploitation figures.

Teenager tortured with hammer and chisel then drowned because relative suspected he was a witch, Old Bailey hears.

Britain has braved the worst of recent gale force winds and stormy weather, say forecasters.

Benedict Cumberbatch, the star of BBC hit drama Sherlock, is believed to have been cast as a villain in the new Star Trek film.

Westminster funding for higher education teaching and research in England and Wales could drop to lowest proportion in a century.

Kerry McGregor, a former X Factor contestant, has died aged 37 after a battle with bladder cancer.

Twins Ena Pugh and Lily Milward, born when Edward VII was on throne, celebrate world record.

Yahoo appoints Paypal boss with proven record as CEO to replace Carol Bartz.

John Lewis department stores makes £596m in sales over Christmas in contrast to Next's 'disappointing' sales.

Treasure hunter finds salacious 2,000-year-old coin in river mud.

Police release picture of Michael Atherton, who killed three people then himself in New Year’s Day shotgun rampage.

Spectacular pictures show the moment that Afghan Police and British forces detonated nearly a tonne of explosives recovered during a major operation in Helmand Province.

Emma West, the woman whose alleged racist outburst on a tram was captured on video, will face trial.

Birmingham bus stop killing: Police release video footage as investigation widens.

The scale of human loss caused by the Iraq conflict has been starkly drawn by a report showing more than 123,000 civilian deaths over the nine year campaign.

A 19-year-old survived a New Year’s Day gun massacre by throwing herself out of an upstairs window.

New Year tradition of linking hands and singing Auld Lang Syne has murky history.