A friend of a New Zealand man killed by a hoarding that fell off a betting shop in London has paid tribute to the young lawyer, saying he was likeable and clever.

A hospital worker has been suspended at the scandal-hit Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust after a baby was found with a dummy taped to his face.

Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, writes Gwynne Dyer, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom's 65 million people live in England.

Check in at London's Dorset Square Hotel, a couple of minutes' walk from Marylebone station and five minutes from Baker Street Tube.

Flights between London and Auckland are up to twice as expensive when booking from New Zealand compared to buying return trips out of Britain.

Scotland Yard has launched a full investigation into allegations that Conservative politicians were members of a paedophile ring which abused British children in care the 1980s.

Food watchdogs in Britain have launched an urgent inquiry into beef produce after a number of products were found to contain horse meat.

A head paper conservator who has previously worked in Auckland has been sentenced for installing a secret camera in a toilet at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

New Zealand striker Chris Wood hit a first half hat-trick as Leicester routed Bristol City 4-0 at Ashton Gate to boost their bid for promotion to the Premier League.

Prince Charles has reportedly aired concerns about changes to the rules of royal succession because they could have "unintended" consequences.

Queenstown police are "absolutely satisfied" a young girl seen in the town on New Year's Eve is not missing British girl Madeleine McCann.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide.

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A British Santa has been suspended from his job after he allegedly told children about the US school massacre and that he was not really Father Christmas.

A review has absolved senior BBC executives of trying to bury an explosive story about one of its best-known children's TV stars, saying management errors were to blame.