Patients 'harmed' by 111 service

Patients using the NHS 111 advice line have complained about calls going unanswered

6:56pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

The implementation of the new NHS non-emergency advice line has caused harm to patients, the director of patient safety at NHS England has admitted.

Three jailed for fake £1 coins plot

Three forgers have been jailed for making fake pound coins

5:12pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Three forgers have been jailed for what police believe is the largest ever plot to make fake pound coins in the UK, some of which may still be in circulation.

Jail term for 'sugar daddy' conman

Fraudster Jonathan Price posed as a super-wealthy businessman

5:08pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A heartless conman who fleeced more than £170,000 out of a string of women he met on a website for "sugar daddies" has been jailed for seven years.

Australians win show garden prize

Prince Harry meets the creators of the Trailfinders Australian Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show

4:17pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

An Australian team has won the best show garden prize for the first time in the Chelsea Flower Show's 100-year-history - with one of its members celebrating by stripping off and going for an impromptu swim.

BAE fined for 'preventable tragedy'

BAE Systems has been fined nearly 350,000 pounds over the death of a worker

3:39pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Defence giant BAE Systems has been ordered to pay almost £350,000 in fines and costs after a worker died when he was crushed by a 145-tonne metal press at one of its sites, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed.

'Strong evidence' of burnt remains

April Jones vanished while playing on her bike with her best friend last year (Dyfed-Powys Police/PA)

3:16pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Experts found "very strong evidence" of burnt human skull remains at the home of the man accused of murdering April Jones, a jury has heard.

Interflora wins M&S trademark case

A judge ruled that the use by M and S of the 'Interflora' trademark as a Google Adword was trademark infringement

3:16pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Flower delivery network Interflora has won its long-running trademark dispute with Marks & Spencer.

Mother's pride at son's VC honour

Lance Corporal James Ashworth was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross

2:38pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

The mother of a "supremely courageous and inspiring" British soldier who died as he protected the lives of his comrades in a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has spoken of her pride after accepting his posthumous Victoria Cross (VC).

Briton in Everest triple peak coup

Kenton Cool and Sherpa Dorje Gylgen at 7,900m on Mount Everest (Kentoncool/PA)

1:54pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Britain's most successful mountaineer has become the first person to scale the three peaks of Mount Everest's Western Cwm in one climb.

Treasury not to be trusted: Salmond

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon launch a paper outlining the nation's key economic strength as an independent country

1:52pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A claim that the UK Treasury deliberately undervalued Scotland's oil in the 1970s to head off the threat of nationalism is evidence that it cannot be trusted in the independence campaign, according to the First Minister.



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