Elliot Morley (pictured), Jim Devine and David Chaytor rgued that, under the 321-year-old Bill of Rights, they could be judged only by the House of Commons.

More than 70 people living on the site can now claim state benefits and apply for utilities including gas and electricity following the ruling.

Bangladesh-born Rajib Karim is accused of two counts of planning suicide bombings and his own martyrdom.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls said town halls should investigate one in ten applicants at random to deter school place cheats.

The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ordinary burglars who were responsible for 'minimal loss'.

Top lawyer Michael Mansfield said he was sure Diana's killers had no intention of ending her life in a Paris tunnel in August 1997 and simply wanted to scare her.

Terry Brownbill is said to have earned £113,000 for 141 days' work after Khyra Ishaq died a slow and agonising death at the hands of her mother and stepfather.

The council met Health Secretary Andy Burnham last week to demand an end to the ban on checks - but were told it could mean fines from Brussels.

The Duke of Edinburgh asked Navy sea cadet Elizabeth Rendle if she worked in a strip club during a visit to the Wyvern Barracks in Exeter, yesterday.

Among the organisations to benefit is the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which is helping the country’s recovery from the massive earthquake earlier this year.

Keith Owen, 44, was jailed for three years for masterminding what was described as the biggest food industry fraud investigators had ever prosecuted.

Women who have taken the Pill at any stage in their life are less likely to die from any cause - including heart disease and all types of cancer.

Zohaib Ahmed took his A-level further maths exam in January, shortly after his 10th birthday.

Police had been warned David Askew was being targeted before he was found dead at his home. One neighbour said he had been 'tormented to death - like bear baiting'.

A leaked report said that some forces use their powers to search people on the streets too often and that the use of the powers against ethnic minorities is 'excessive'.

Toyota has been forced to hand a 'smoking gun' memo produced by its own factory workers to US investigators probing a spate of system faults.

Mr Brown, who was accompanied by his wife Sarah, laid a wreath on behalf of the nation along with a note written on No10 headed paper.

The Celebrity Eclipse was forced to make an undignified squeeze through the lock as she left the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenberg, Germany, on her maiden voyage.

Five members of a gang, including Shaheed Rahman (pictured) who kidnapped and tortured the 16-year-old have been jailed for a total of 40 years.

The elephant carcass provided a vital source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in the Gonarezhou National Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its discovery.

The modified 1988 Volkswagen Sirocco broke down about four times, forcing the driver - Bang Goes the Theory's Jem Stansfield - to wait on the side of the motorway.

The Mortlach 70-year-old Speyside was sampled by a select group of tasters at a ceremony in Edinburgh Castle.

Mr Biden arrived 90 minutes late to a scheduled dinner with Benjamin Netanyahu and sharply rebuked the Israeli step.

The Iranian president said terrorists are best fought not on the battlefield, but through the use of intelligence, which does not result in the deaths of troops of civilians.

Gangs of thugs plan to travel from Argentina to the tournament in South Africa this summer to fight with rival groups of supporters over the Falklands dispute, detectives believe.

The theft potentially exposes large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.

An unnamed psychiatrist wrote in 2000 that Jon Venables - one of the two child killers of James Bulger seven years earlier - was most unlikely to offend again.

The case of Ashleigh Hall raises urgent questions. Mainly, what the hell are we doing allowing a creep whose history of violence against women began at the age of 15 to be at liberty?

They call them 'devil dogs', and when you have seen one snarling at the end of a lead, teeth bared, ears pinned back as it menaces some innocent stranger, it is easy to understand why.

Powerfully built, fearless and with a vice-like bite that's almost impossible to unlock, they are weapons on a lead. These ferocious animals could never be described as pets.