By Lewis Bazley.
Speech DeBelle has become the 17th recipient of the prestigious Mercury Prize for Music.
The hip-hop artist claimed the award for her album Speech Therapy ahead of favourites Florence and the Machine and the Horrors.
The South London artist, real name Corynne Elliot, released her debut album in June and was a surprise winner of [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
Speech DeBelle has become the 17th recipient of the prestigious Mercury Prize for Music.
The hip-hop artist claimed the award for her album Speech Therapy ahead of favourites Florence and the Machine and the Horrors.
The South London artist, real name Corynne Elliot, released her debut album in June and was a surprise winner of [...]

By inthenews.co.uk staff.
Police investigating the alleged heist of £40 million worth of jewellery from a west London store have made another arrest.
A 22-year-old man is in police custody on suspicion of conspiring to rob Graff jewellers last month when shots were fired at the New Bond Street store.
Earlier today another man appeared in court where [...]

By Matthew Champion.
Chocolate maker Cadbury is under pressure to accept a £10.2 billion takeover offer from Kraft after the US food giant pledged to keep open a factory earmarked for closure.
Cadbury said on Monday the unsolicited offer "fundamentally undervalues" the group, but shares leapt by up to 37 per cent in early trading on the [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
More new-born children should be taken into care stop irreparable damage from poor parenting, according to the boss of a children’s charity.
Martin Narey, chief executive of Barnardo’s, said there should be less emphasis on "fixing families that can’t be fixed" and greater efforts from social workers to take at risk children into care.
His [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, could be invited to appear on Question Time, the BBC has confirmed.
A spokesman said the broadcaster was bound by rules to treat representatives of all political parties with "due impartiality".
No representatives of the far-right party – which was elected to the European parliament in [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
The prime minister opted not to press Libya for compensation for victims of IRA bombings, Downing St has confirmed.
The revelation comes after claims the Libyan government unduly influenced the doctors who ruled Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al Megrahi had only three months left to live.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, one of the doctors involved [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
The prime minister opted not to press Libya for compensation for victims of IRA bombings, Downing St has confirmed.
The revelation comes after claims the Libyan government unduly influenced the doctors who ruled Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al Megrahi had only three months left to live.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, one of the doctors involved [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
The prime minister has offered his backing to victims of IRA terrorism seeking compensation from Libya after earlier outcry at his refusal to push for a pay-out.
Gordon Brown had earlier been criticised after saying he did not consider it "appropriate" to enter talks with Libya over compensation for the victims of IRA bombs.
Campaigners [...]

By Lewis Bazley.
A rail firm may have left thousands of passengers facing a difficult journey home after all but one of its Sunday service routes were cancelled today.
Drivers for London Midland typically work on a voluntary basis on Sundays but after insufficient numbers put themselves forward for work this week, the company has scrapped the [...]