The Road Safety Minister, Mr Hammond has said that trials of 80mph motorway speed limits could start next year and that raising the limit to 80mph is still firmly on the Government’s agenda. There could be three trials of the higher speeds in different areas, and if successful they will…

Remortgaging and first-time buyers responsible for continued rise... Gross mortgage lending rose by 5 per cent in April, according to figures released yesterday by the Council of Mortgage Lenders. A total of £3.4 billion was lent to borrowers remortgaging in April, up by 10 per cent compared to March. First-time…

A member of the protest group Fathers for Justice has been arrested after a painting of the Queen was defaced with paint in Westminster Abbey today. Police said a 41-year-old man has been arrested and the group said it believed he was a member but insisted it was not an…

Interfering in-laws are 'responsible for one in 10 divorces' in Britain, study into marriage breakdown reveals... Arguments about how often couples see parents and families were the underlying tensions behind nearly a third of marriage splits, while rows over how to bring up the children caused difficulties for a quarter…

Moving house can be stressful enough but imagine arriving at the home you had fallen in love with only to find that every single fitting had been ripped out…including the kitchen sink! That's what happened to 40-year-old Declan Curran when he bought a basement flat in Pimlico, central London. He…

Both men and women in the UK are increasingly turning to cosmetic surgery to alter their appearance, spending around £2.3bn a year on cosmetic treatments. The growing popularity of cosmetic surgery procedures in the UK has been reported by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPs) whose members undertook…

A man who gave his children Nazi-inspired names has dressed up in full fascist regalia as he appeared in a US court seeking to secure visitation rights to his youngest son. Heath Campbell - father of Adolf Hitler Campbell, 7, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 6, Honzlynn Jeannie Campbell, 5, and…