Consumers booking a range of items from cinema tickets to hotel rooms now have new protection from card surcharges.

Plans to strip some English councils of their role in the adoption process would be a "reckless gamble", the Local Government Association says.

A minute's silence in memory of the six Philpott children killed in a fire last May is to be held before Derby County's match against Ipswich.

Britain will become a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year because of bad weather, the National Farmers' Union says.

Axminster Carpets is to begin trading again after a deal was made to save the company and secure about 100 jobs.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is discharged from hospital after 10 days of treatment for pneumonia, the government says.

Three soldiers and two coalition civilians serving with Nato-led forces in Afghanistan are killed by a bomb in southern Zabul province.

Two landlords who were trapped in their pubs by snow - one of them for five days - are among Derbyshire traders counting the cost of the Easter blizzard.