The owner of a theme park has given his personal assurance of safety as he re-opened a rollercoaster from which a teenager fell to her death. The Hydro ride at the Oakwood park in Pembrokeshire was ...

The final cost of the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood has been put at £414.4m. MSPs were given a final report on the "Holyrood Project" which showed that the price tag was some £16m cheaper ...

El AWD Arena, antiguamente conocido como Niedersachsenstadion, albergará cuatro partidos de la fase de grupos y uno de octavos de final.

Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of inciting murder and race hate. Abu Hamza, 47, who preached at Finsbury Park Mosque, London, ...

Heather Fell failed to overturn a 19-second deficit in the 3,000m run of the modern pentathlon but the Briton won silver behind German Lena Schoneborn. Fell began the final of the five events in ...

Neath will kick-off the defence of their Principality Premiership title on Saturday, 1 September when they host Bridgend at ...

In the 1997 election campaign, the Conservatives ran under a slogan "Britain is Booming. Don't let Labour Blow it". They ran a party political broadcast that looked ahead at economic life under Labour ...

Former Boston manager Steve Evans says his appeal against charges of contract irregularities and impeding an FA enquiry will be heard later this month. Evans told BBC Radio Lincolnshire his FA hearing ...

One might struggle to see the ethical side of bodysnatching, that grisly activity epitomised by Burke and Hare. But, according to a senior curator at the Royal College of Surgeons, some of the ...

Liverpool and Netherlands winger Ryan Babel should be fit for the start of next season despite missing Euro 2008 with an ankle injury. Babel tore ligaments in training on Saturday, but Dutch coach ...

Houston Astros' late dash for Major League Baseball's play-offs has been halted by the advance of Hurricane Ike. Having won 14 of their last 15 games, the Astros called off Friday and Saturday's games ...

The Inca citadel, 2,400 metres (7,782 feet) high in the Andes, was being used in the ad for Cusquena beer by US publicity firm J Walter Thompson when a crane smashed into a centuries-old granite sun ...