Poole and Bournemouth Guide

BBC News - UK

The latest stories from the UK section of the BBC News web site.

• SDLP in talks on benefits reform

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:57)

  An SDLP delegation is to meet the the UK minister for welfare reform in London later to discuss concerns about benefit changes for Northern Ireland.

• Englishman v. food?

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:42)

  Are eating challenges becoming more popular in England?

• NHS directors seek Lords backing

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:06)

  Peers are urged to support a move to let hospitals do more private sector work as plans to overhaul the NHS in England return to the Lords.

• Call for 'joined-up' elderly care

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:22)

  Older people needing social care are being let down and "passed like parcels" between fragmented services, a group of MPs says.

• Bonuses row 'threatens business'

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:22)

  George Osborne promises to fight an "anti-business culture", warning that the row over bonuses and pay threatens to undermine jobs and prosperity.

• £45m for UK Euromillions player

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:00)

  A UK ticket-holder has won more than £45m in the Euromillions lottery, operator Camelot reveals.

• Ministers admit benefits backlog

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 02:55)

  The Department for Work and Pensions admits to a large backlog of new sickness benefit claims, as tens of thousands await a decision beyond the 13-week assessment period.

• Libya mission 'could be one-off'

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 02:23)

  MPs say spending cuts raise concerns over the UK's ability to launch another mission on the same scale as the operation in Libya.

• Scottish budget plan to be passed

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 02:02)

  Finance Secretary John Swinney looks set to offer last minute changes to his budget in an effort to secure opposition support.

• Mackenzie Crook up for book award

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:51)

  British actor Mackenzie Crook, best known for playing Gareth in The Office, is shortlisted for this year's Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

• VIDEO: Radcliffe takes on horror role

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:38)

  Harry Potter star is spooked in new film Woman in Black

• The rise and fall of lap dancing

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:23)

  The rise and fall of the lap dancing club

• Argentina to go to UN on islands

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:02)

  Argentina will make a formal complaint to the UN about British "militarisation" around the disputed Falkland Islands, says President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Two arrested over Lurgan murder

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 00:08)

  Two more men are arrested by police investigating the murder of a man in Lurgan at the weekend.

• Solar study may put oil under sea

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 23:38)

  Scientists in Glasgow work towards technology that could remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and put oil back under the sea.

• VIDEO: Lansley has PM's 'full support' on NHS

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 23:00)

  No 10 insists Andrew Lansley has David Cameron's "full support" over planned NHS changes, including giving GPs more control over budgets.

• Crews tackle blaze at university

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:59)

  More than 50 firefighters have tackled a major blaze in a Strathclyde University building in Glasgow.

• Sheffield Wed 0-3 Blackpool

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:10)

  Blackpool seal an FA Cup fifth-round tie at Everton after a convincing 3-0 victory at Sheffield Wednesday.

• UK temperatures set to reach -15C

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 20:02)

  The UK is braced for its coldest night yet this winter as temperatures in some parts of England could reach as low as -15C.

• VIDEO: Synod to discuss plans on women bishops

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 19:56)

  The Church of England's ruling body, the General Synod, is to discuss legislation on women bishops this week.

• VIDEO: Sun editor defends Page Three

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 19:39)

  The editor of The Sun newspaper, Dominic Mohan, has defended the continued use of topless pictures on page three.

• 'Last' WWI service veteran dies

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 19:26)

  A woman thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of World War I dies aged 110.

• Times editor in hacking apology

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 18:29)

  The editor of the Times publicly apologises at the Leveson Inquiry for a reporter who hacked into an email account to write a story.

• Milly Dowler killer seeks appeal

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 18:26)

  Former bouncer Levi Bellfield is due to seek permission to appeal against his conviction for the kidnap and murder of teenager Milly Dowler.

• Call for Paisley support prayers

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:50)

  The family of former first minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley remain at his hospital bedside.

• VIDEO: House of Commons

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:41)

  Conservative MPs have called on the home secretary to "become a national hero" by ignoring a judgement from the European Court of Human Rights and deporting a terror suspect to Jordan immediately.

• Ministers warned on Awema in 2004

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:41)

  The Welsh government was warned to stop new public funding for an under-fire race equality body in 2004, BBC Wales can reveal.

• Anfield cat is new Twitter star

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:30)

  A grey and white cat which ran on to the Anfield turf during Liverpool's match with Tottenham attracts 30,000 followers on Twitter.

• Parks stands down from Scotland

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:43)

  Scotland stand-off Dan Parks announces his retirement from international rugby with immediate effect.

• VIDEO: Qatada 'should remain behind bars'

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:29)

  The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has told the Commons that it is not acceptable that the European Court of Human Rights has blocked Britain from deporting the radical cleric, Abu Qatada.