Environment Agency staff were abused in Wraysbury, Berkshire and were told to retreat by police. They have now been told to report any further abusive incidents to the agency.

Currently, there are fewer than 500 spaces left across the entire prison estate after the number of inmates rocketed to 85,235.

Plans to harvest private data from patients’ NHS files are causing a ‘crisis of public confidence’, the Royal College of GPs said yesterday.

Headteachers who lack the ambition to improve struggling schools should quit, according to the head of the schools watchdog.

Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney hailed Britain as 'one of the strongest economies in the advanced world' as he predicted stronger growth, tumbling unemployment and lower inflation in the coming years.

The cost of Britain's aircraft carriers, pictured, fighter jets, submarines and other state-of-the-art kit has soared a staggering 12.3 per cent since they were ordered, the National Audit Office said.

They have been known for decades as ‘Chelsea Tractors’ after the upmarket London borough in which their well-heeled 4X4 owners drive them.

Toyota has recalled 1.9 million Prius cars globally because of a software glitch that could cause the vehicle to stall but no accidents or injuries have been reported.

The unique scheme has been successfully trialled by aspect.co.uk, whose property maintenance team operates round-the-clock in central London.

Campaigners claim the drug Kadcyla offers a ‘precious lifeline’ for women with the most aggressive form of the disease who have tried other treatments.

Men who take digoxin are at lower risk of cancer, say rsearchers at Seattle's University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre.

Admiral Lord West of Spithead, who fought in the Falklands War, said a law banning ships flying the red ensign from docking, is 'insulting'.

The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation to determine what caused the plane, which was carrying nearly 200 service personnel, to suddenly lose altitude.

The future king led a meeting at London Zoo yesterday, in his role as President of United for Wildlife, to develop an international response to the slaughter of endangered animals for their body parts.

Miss Cooper and Mr Balls are regularly referred to as Labour’s ‘Golden Couple’. But his comments suggest that their marriage is plagued by the same problems as everyone else’s - arguments about the housework.

Mark Harper is entitled to the cash despite resigning for hiring a Colombian woman with no right to be in Britain to clean his London flat and do his ironing.

Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission, questioned whether British people are capable of making a decision in an EU referendum.

Gregg Stevenson, 29, (left) from Pendle, Lancashire, was sweeping for mines with the 24 Commando Engineer Regiment in Kajaki, Helmand Province, when a Taliban IED exploded.

Victoria Meppen-Walter, 44, from Heywood, Greater Manchester, had surgery at the private Transform Clinic in Cheshire and said afterwards she was left in 'burning pain'.

Six-year-old Kaylyn Fry, from the Scottish Borders, was not expected to survive after the placenta ruptured just 16 weeks into the pregnancy.

A shocked mother from Barnehurst, London, is facing a £10,000 bill after a huge sinkhole deeper than a double-decker bus appeared overnight in her back garden, swallowing her daughter's trampoline.

The Black Sea resort is hotter today than the last 10 Winter Games cities - and six of the last 10 summer ones. Visitors including British medal-winner Jenny Jones have stripped off on Sochi's beaches and under palm trees.

Canadian cross-country ski coach Justin Wadsworth sprinted over to help Anton Gafarov when he spotted the Russian struggle toward the finish line.

A judge in the southern city of Krasnodar ruled to convert an earlier suspended sentence for Yevgeny Vitishko, 40, into a full prison term after deciding he had broken the terms of the agreement.

Mark Arthur, 50, of Gosforth, Newcastle, was found guilty of knifing his wife Heather in the study of their home following a row between the couple.

Keiran Graham (pictured), 24, from Gloucester, admitted contempt of court, apologised to the judge, Alistair McGrigor, and claimed he did not realise he had committed a criminal offence.

Married father-of-two Peter Baruch, 38, from London, has been arrested on child pornography charges involving at least one girl in Uralsk, Kazakhstan.

The former X Factor judge, 25, from Friern Barnet, north London, is accused of assaulting writer Savvas Morgan at the festival in Chelmsford, Essex, last summer.

Glen Patterson, 25, has been charged with two counts of murder after police arrested him when they were called to Benton, North Tyneside, at 9.15pm yesterday to reports a man was causing a disturbance.

The exclusive underground parking space (bottom left), located near the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, London, (pictured main) costs 15 times the average UK salary of £26,500.

The reality TV star says the benefits system is 'too comfortable' and will stand as an independent MP at the next election.

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Wheelchair-bound Marie-Patricia Hoarau, 41, said the British airline made her feel like a 'social outcast' when forcing her off the plane for flying alone.

Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov climbed continuously for two hours before conquering the partly constructed Shanghai tower - with no safety equipment.

Proving just how matter-of-fact kids can be is a collection of handwritten notes from American children addressed to parents, Santa, and even God.

Wounda was one of the more than 160 chimpanzees living at the Jane Goodall Institute's Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo.

The black and white photographs date to the mid-19th century - and show a series of Victorian child criminals, all arrested in Dorchester, Dorset and the surrounding area.