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Four deny charges over expenses

Three MPs and a peer tell a court they are not guilty of charges of false accounting in relation to their expenses claims.

Plans for a new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham are announced by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.

The devolution of policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland marks the end to decades of strife, Gordon Brown says.

The coroner at an inquest into the death of four soldiers in an Afghan blast says there were training “inadequacies”.

Two men and a woman die after plunging to the ground from a high-rise block of flats in the Springburn area of Glasgow.

James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables must not be “prejudged” by speculation over the allegations he faces, ministers say.