Two-thirds want plans for route linking West Midlands and north with London scrapped or reconsidered.

Sir Michael Wilshaw condemns city for allowing children like Keanu Williams and Daniel Pelka to die.

Gill Whittaker, a GMB organiser, says the announcement is a great achievement.

Report shows authorities missed several opportunities to stop toddler being beaten to death by Rebecca Shuttleworth

Taliban schoolgirl target opens library with impassioned speech in praise of books and knowledge.

Mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence is most eye-catching inclusion on this year's list.

Waste collection survey asks residents their religion and sexual orientation.

Secretive religious group submits plan to restore listed estate into 'auditing and recruitment' centre.

Anwar found after going missing from Walsall school last week.

A 10-month-old baby starved to death in Westminster while his family was in the transitional period between asylum support systems.

According to figures supplied by the Montreal-based Airports Council International, in 2011 London Heathrow Airport advanced one peg in the world passenger rankings to No 3 - beating Chicago O'Hare International - with a total throughput of over 69.4 million, an increase over the previous year of 5.4 per cent. Plane movements averaged 1,305 per day, affecting, if some critics of Britain's only true hub airport's expansion plans are to be believed, some two million people!

Forget the flags, bin the bunting, avoid the anthem: How non-royalists can get best out of diamond jubilee weekend.

Labour Party leader emerges from council elections in stronger position with hundreds of seats taken.

David Cameron's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has been punished by voters in local elections over its austerity measures and a weak economy.

Increasingly squeezed middle-class Britain turns to 'foodbanks' as unemployment rises, access to benefits tightens and debt slips out of control.

A Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of claims made by 174 former employees of the Birmingham City Council.

As news emerges that EDL members will seek political office, IBTimes UK looks at where that may be.

On 15 September 2011 the Office for National Statistics reported that the level of unemployment had remained unchanged at 7.9 per cent but only because the estimated number of people employed in the economy, had fallen by 69,0000 in the three months to July, to total 29.17 million, of whom 23.13 million are in the private sector 23.13 million and 6.04 million in the public.

As Birmingham, Liverpool and Londoners wake up to scenes of devastation in their cities, there have been growing calls from celebrities, MP’s and ordinary families for the army to be brought onto the streets of Britain to restore calm and order.

On Thursday 30th June, up to 750,000 members from four unions will cross the picket line causing mass disruption to many public sector services in England and Wales. Air traffic controllers, coast guards, prison workers and customs and immigration staff have all been balloted and strike action is set to cause mass disruption to British airports and schools. The National Union of Teachers has said they expect 85 per cent of schools to be closed.

Read here the full text of Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech to the House of Commons.