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Rod Stewart celebrates hitting the top of the album charts

Rod Stewart tops UK album chart new

Rod Stewart's first album of self-penned songs in 20 years has gone straight to the top of the UK album charts.

Mick Philpott and wife Mairead were jailed for killing their six children in a house fire

Philpott wife plans sentence appeal new

A mother jailed for 17 years for killing her six children in a house fire is to appeal against the length of her sentence, her lawyer has said.

A toddler pulled from the wreckage of a car crash was mistakenly sent to a mortuary in a body bag, it has emerged

Toddler taken to morgue in body bag new

A toddler pulled from the wreckage of a car crash that killed five family members was sent to a morgue in a body bag in the belief he was dead.

One person has died and two others were seriously injured after a light aircraft crashed in North Wales

One dead, two hurt in plane crash new

A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.

Two men are critically ill in hospital after a 'horrific' crash which claimed the lives of two teenagers

Two 'critical' after death crash

Two men are critical in hospital after a car crash claimed the lives of two teenage girls.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt appears on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)

Hunt in GP call over A&E crisis

Family doctors need a "closer personal relationship" with their patients as part of efforts to ease the crisis in hospital accident and emergency units, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.

The Foreign Office is probing reports that a British man has been arrested in France on suspicion of killing his two children

Father 'slit children's throats'

A British father is being questioned in France on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children, local police said.

Wayne and Coleen Rooney are expecting their second child

Rooney to miss game as baby is due

Wayne Rooney will miss Manchester United's final game of the season as wife Coleen is due to give birth to the couple's second child.

Any significant rise to MPs' pay is set to cause controversy

MPs in line for dramatic pay rise

MPs are in line for a dramatic pay rise of up to £20,000 in a move that could spark public fury.

Lord Feldman has denied being responsible for alleged comments describing grassroots Tory party activists as 'swivel-eyed loons'

Cameron hints at going it alone

David Cameron has hinted that he could attempt to govern without the Liberal Democrats if disputes within the coalition made it impossible to continue.

Sussex Police have launched a murder probe following a shooting in Hove

Murder investigation after shooting

A murder investigation has been launched following the shooting of a man on Saturday night, police said.

David Beckham with the torch during the ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic flame, at RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall

£6m cost of Olympic Torch relay

England's largest local councils spent more than £6 million hosting the Olympic Torch for last year's Games, figures published on the one-year anniversary of the start of the relay show.

The Queen will get a preview of the Chelsea Flower Show

Queen to get garden festival look

One hundred years of glorious gardens will be celebrated when the world's most famous flower show throws its doors open this week.

Activists attack PM on gay marriage

Tory activists have attacked David Cameron's support for gay marriage, claiming it had made winning the next general election "virtually impossible".

Half of Crohn's disease patients believe their recovery was hampered because of poor hospital food

Crohn's patients slam hospital food

Half of hospitalised Crohn's disease patients believe their recovery was hampered because of poor hospital food, a poll suggests.

A poll suggestsw more than three million British drivers have fallen asleep behind the wheel over the past 12 months

One in 10 'fell asleep at wheel'

More than three million British drivers have fallen asleep behind the wheel in the last year, according to new research.

Miliband pledges tax crackdown

Labour leader Ed Miliband will write new rules to tackle corporate tax dodgers if he wins the next election, even if there is no international consensus for action.

Sir Mervyn King said there was 'no place in the long run' for the Chancellor's Help to Buy scheme

Call to stop demonising bankers

Sir Mervyn King has called for an end to bankers being "demonised" for their role in the financial crash, insisting the problem was with the system rather than individuals.

Lord Geoffrey Howe says David Cameron is losing control of the Conservative Party

Cameron 'losing control' of party

Former foreign secretary Lord Geoffrey Howe has claimed David Cameron is losing control of his party as the Conservatives' "long, nervous breakdown" over Europe continues.