Drowned girl 'pleaded to leave'
A 14-year-old girl pleaded with teachers to abandon a Dartmoor training trip before drowning in a swollen river, an inquest is told.

Parade reversed for US audience
London's New Year's day parade will be marched in reverse direction to please American audiences, organisers say.

Man guilty of girl's fire murder
A man who killed a three-year-old girl by setting fire to her family home in Liverpool in a revenge attack is convicted of murder.

Queen attends Blackpool Variety
The Queen is entertained by a host of stars at the first Royal Variety Performance held in Blackpool since 1955.

Disney World twins with Swindon
The Wiltshire town of Swindon is selected to become the world's first community to twin with Disney World.

Man charged with murdering baby
A 21-year-old man is charged with the murder of a baby girl in St Helens, Merseyside.

A pair of baggy underpants wins bad art award
A pair of saggy underpants has scooped Somerset's answer to the Turner Prize for arts.

Fake Christmas tree removed after "witch's hat" jibes
A Dorset town's ridiculed fake Christmas tree, which was put up in place of a real fir amid safety fears, is removed.

Watford clinch win against QPR
Watford cast aside their off-field financial problems as they come from behind to defeat QPR and move into the Championship play-off places.

Wasps cleared over abandoned game
Wasps will not face punishment for their refusal to play their Guinness Premiership match against Sale at Edgeley Park on 27 November.

O'Sullivan cruises past Stevens
Ronnie O'Sullivan beats Matthew Stevens 9-3 to book a second-round date with Peter Ebdon at the UK Championship in Telford.

Sorry cannibals
Island apologises for killing and eating missionary

Terror impact
The effect of anti-terrorism raids on communities

Kidney removal
In and out of hospital in a day for major surgery

Couple lose migrant marriage bid
British teenager Amber Aguilar and her Chilean husband lose a battle to be allowed to return to live together in the UK.

Ex-wife 'battered and burned'
A man who married his ex-wife's daughter battered the older woman to death and set her body on fire, a court hears.

Girl drowned in foster home pool
A toddler drowned in a swimming pool at the family home of her foster parents, an inquest hears.

Dr Crippen pardon bid rejected
A legal attempt to win a posthumous pardon for convicted murderer Dr Hawley Crippen is turned down.

Teacher guilty of grooming pupil
A teacher at an all-girls school has been convicted of sexually grooming a pupil who had developed a crush on him.

Dinosaur bones to be assembled
Researchers at an Isle of Wight museum begin the painstaking process of assembling an almost complete dinosaur skeleton, the BBC can reveal.

Cartier airport raid pair guilty
Two men are jailed after being found guilty of stealing nearly £4m of designer jewellery from Southend Airport in Essex.

Tesco shop shut over health fears
A Tesco Express in the West Midlands is closed by council environmental health officers over hygiene fears.

GMC criticises circumcision care
A disciplinary panel concludes that a doctor in Essex did not provide the expected standard of care when performing circumcisions.

Armed police van hijacker jailed
A man who pointed a loaded pistol at Cambridgeshire police officers and stole a police van is given an indeterminate prison sentence.

'Soldier's' coffin donations scam
A suspected conman posing as an army captain is preying on vulnerable people asking for donations to pay for a soldier's coffin.

Photos stolen on memorial visit
A couple have "irreplaceable" photographs of their son stolen from their car as they visited his memorial on the anniversary of his death.

Pair admit 'frenzied' murder
Two teenagers admit murdering a 35-year-old man in a "random and frenzied" attack in East Yorkshire.

Flood town united by new bridge
A temporary footbridge, built by the Army, re-unites the Cumbrian town of Workington which was split in half by floodwaters.

Divers find body in lake search
Police divers searching Lake Windermere in Cumbria after a boat is reported unoccupied find a body.

Cenotaph 'urinate' man in court
A man accused of urinating on Teesside war memorial is given a conditional discharge by a judge.

Hope for Everton's Kirkby plan
Aborted plans for Everton's new stadium in Kirkby could still be included in revised plans to regenerate the town.

Shearer receives honorary degree
Former Newcastle United and England captain Alan Shearer is among those awarded honorary degrees on Tyneside.

Water costs 'penalise' South West
Taxpayers across England could be forced to subsidise Devon and Cornwall's rising water bills.

Harpist guilty of handling goods
A former harpist to Prince Charles is found guilty of handling stolen goods but cleared of three counts of burglary.

Inquest into boy's river death
An inquest decides that the death of an eight-year-old boy, who became trapped by tides on a rock, was misadventure.

Cornish beach sold for £30,000
A 17-acre beach on the south-east coast of Cornwall is sold at auction for £30,000.

Fine over fatal boiler explosion
A housing society is fined £50,000 after a boiler exploded killing a Gloucestershire woman and her dog.

Award for snow twins firefighters
Firefighters who rescued a woman in labour with twins during a snow storm in Devon earlier this year are honoured.