England's week in pictures

Conchita, a three-week old mangabey monkey was being hand reared at London Zoo while her mother recovered from a caesarean. The species, native to west Africa, is on the critically endangered list.

Two teenage boys, Brendan Harris and Ryan Herbert, were jailed for life for the murder of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster, who was beaten to death because she was a Goth.

Hundreds of people attended the funeral service of television presenter Mark Speight, who was found hanged in central London. He was said to have been devastated by the death of his fiancee.

Priston Jubilee Morris dancers were among those across England who took part in the traditional 1 May celebrations. May Day is considered an important date in the English countryside calendar.

Millions of voters headed to the polls for the local elections, held across England and Wales. About 4,000 seats on 159 councils were up for grabs, along with the London mayoralty and London Assembly.

But as the results came in, showing Labour had suffered its worst council results in at least 40 years, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it had been a "bad and disappointing" election for the party.

The parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann, Kate and Gerry, appealed again for information on their daughter on the first anniversary of her disappearance.

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