Fugitive Raoul Moat had a 'mate' yesterday during his final hours - troubled former football star Paul Gascoigne.

A New Zealand fruit distributor is behind efforts to secretly grow kiwifruit in southern England.

The British public is being urged to suggest their own spending cuts as the Government steps up its search for billions of pounds of savings.

'If I was to make an appeal I would say he would be better dead,' said the mother of armed fugitive Raoul Moat, wanted for two killings in the UK.

Opening Auckland's film festival tonight, I Am Love marks Tilda Swinton's return to arthouse movies after excursions in Hollywood. She talks to HELEN BARLOW

Five years after the terror attacks on London's public transport system, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reflects on what's been learned.

Claims that more than one hundred Iraqi civilians were tortured and abused by British soldiers must be fully investigated, Britain's High Court was told yesterday.

The Queen is down to her last £1m and will go into the red in the year of her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, new figures reveal.

Gaelic is still widely spoken on the island of Lewis, the northernmost, largest and lowest-lying of the Outer Hebrides.

Like everything in Katie Price's life, her wedding blessing was full of drama and photographers on Saturday. She married cage-fighter Alex Reid in Las Vegas in February but the couple wanted a lavish ceremony at home for friends and family.

Chefs from London to Loch Voll are growing their own produce, from bumper crops of carrots to unusual herbs they find difficult to source.

Germany saw off Argentina with a 4-0 goal fest in South Africa this morning.

Anamarie Ewins wants to deliver another sporting milestone for New Zealand and become the first woman to row solo across the Tasman.