A man is due in court in Belfast to face charges connected to an international organised crime gang.

Rachel Rice is named as the £100,000 winner of this year's Big Brother beating bookies' favourite Mikey Hughes into second place.

Flood warnings are in place in Wales and parts of England as heavy rain sweeps across the country.

New figure show there were 20 deaths on Scotland's mountains last year and 491 rescues.

A reception to celebrate the achievements of Scotland's Olympic heroes is held in Edinburgh.

Caroline Lucas has been elected as the first ever leader of the Green party at its annual conference in London.

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Two Northern Ireland soccer fans are knocked unconscious by baton-wielding security men in Slovakia

Emergency teams are called to hundreds of flooding incidents in homes and roads across south and west Wales.

A British soldier killed in an explosion while on patrol in southern Afghanistan is named by the Ministry of Defence.

Six cases of stomach illness have been confirmed where customers have been advised to boil their water.

Alan Shearer appears to rule himself out of the vacant manager's job at Newcastle, calling the club's structure "strange".

Readers send in photos as flooding hits Wales

Man jailed for airline shoe bomb plot loses High Court bid to bring forward release date.

Mohammed Bilal Bhatti changes murder plea to guilty.

A universal flu vaccine which could mean an end to the annual flu jab is being trialled on UK volunteers.

A local government union calls another one-day strike across Scotland in pursuit of its pay claim.

Another teachers' strike is threatened - with the National Union of Teachers announcing a ballot for industrial action.

UKIP should be positive about UK relations with Europe, leader Nigel Farage tells its annual conference.

"Overzealous" council threatens a schoolboy with an £80 fine for putting up lost cat posters on lamp posts.