School caretaker Timothy Flood, 42, spilled petrol on his own clothes as he doused the £250,000 detached house with fuel. He was engulfed in flames after lighting a match.

The results of a ballot among signal workers were announced this morning after a long-running row over job cuts.

The shop in Cwmcarn, South Wales, is next to a gym - and passers-by mistook the boy for towels accidentally left behind by someone after a work-out.

The former Prime Minister tried to keep the public in the dark over his dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corporation.

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Caractacus Downes but it was not in the public interest to do so.

Labour government will take the step if necessary to help plug the vast black hole in Britain's public finances.

Birmingham City Council's decision to sack six social workers followed a number of child deaths, including seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq who was starved to death by her mother and stepfather.

The Environment Secretary's retreat came just hours after he insisted families would be happy to take part.

The bank, which has three million small shareholders, reported 'strong' trading in the first 10 weeks of 2010 and has clamped down on costs after the HBOS merger.

Police investigating the murder of Elisa Claps believe there may be a link between her death and the murder of British mother Heather Barnett in 2002.

Amphon Tuckey ate the fungi with raw pork sausage after her niece Kannika (pictured) picked them at a botanic gardens.

The crossbench peer, who was forced to quit during the expenses scandal, has tabled a 'motion of regret' against a statutory instrument laid by Jack Straw.

Phil Woolas, also the Saeed's local MP, said the British Government's stance on not paying ransoms had proved successful but a 'judgment' had to be applied.

The Government will freeze vital top-ups to the basic State pension after quietly dropping a pledge to increase them in line with inflation every year.

The controversial boss of Royal Mail could earn as much as £18.4million over the next five years in his new job at ITV.

The £150,000 McLaren MP4-12C is Britain's answer to Italy's legendary Ferrari and is the long-held dream of McLaren and F1 team boss Ron Dennis.

Lonely people are more prone to developing high blood pressure in later life, say researchers.

The system for processing loan applications 'continues to be very high risk', the National Audit Office said.

They were known as much for their tangled love lives as their intellect. Now a rare archive revealing photos has thrown fascinating new light on their scene.

Property investor Glenn Knowles, 35, lost the sports car because he was too drunk to remember where he parked it. He had previously misplaced a Mercedes after a heavy night drinking.

Officers taking down a suspect's particulars must now refer to their 'personal' or 'family name' as the word 'Christian' could offend Muslims, Sikhs and other faiths.

Pak Nam Ki was responsible for revaluing the communist regime's currency, but his attempts to curb inflation caused nationwide misery - and leader Kim Jong Ill was not amused.

Some 8,000 Muslim boys and men were killed after Bosnian Serb forces overran lightly armed Dutch soldiers in the United Nations-designated enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.

The UK embassy confirmed statements by Russian officials last week that British soldiers will join American, French and Russian units for the May 9 parade.

Chantal Brunel, a member of the ruling UMP, wants to legalise women selling sex on licensed premises and say they should be taxed on earnings.

Miss Williams is claiming her annual spend of £4,500 on hair and clothes is necessary for her job and therefore should qualify for tax relief.

To inflation-link expat pensions would cost an additional £500million a year. That is money that will disappear from the British economy.

Margaret Thatcher's official biographer, Charles Moore, mocks Samantha Cameron's 'perfect estuarial' accent.

Suddenly, as if by magic, Alistair Darling finds himself with wiggle room to dish out goodies to the young unemployed and pensioners.