Poole and Bournemouth Guide

BBC News - UK

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

• Fraud probe sergeant found dead

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 15:26)

  A West Yorkshire Police officer who was arrested over fraud allegations has been found dead at his home in Leeds.

• PSNI release riot suspect images

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 15:22)

  Pictures of 14 suspected rioters are released by police investigating trouble in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

• Immigrant worker limit criticised

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 15:07)

  Government plans to limit the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the UK are criticised by the Lord Mayor of London.

• Child, 3, drowned in garden pond

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 15:01)

  A toddler drowned after falling into a garden pond during a visit to a house in Edinburgh, it has emerged.

• Family funeral tribute to soldier

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 15:00)

  Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of a "brave, courageous and loyal" soldier killed in Afghanistan.

• Fugitive Nadir will stand trial

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:57)

  Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, confirms he will come back to the UK to stand trail on theft charges.

• Points failure caused rail crash

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:54)

  A points failure caused the Potters Bar train crash which killed seven people, an inquest jury decides.

• Sex parties banned at London home

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:40)

  The High Court bans a man from staging sex parties and pole-dancing classes at the mansion he owns in central London.

• Bristol City capture keeper James

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:26)

  Bristol City sign England goalkeeper David James following his release from Portsmouth.

• Benefits face 'radical' shake-up

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:17)

  Ministers are to set out options for "radical reform" of the benefits system and moving people from welfare into work.

• Charges follow quad bike deaths

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:04)

  Two men, 21 and 23, will face charges after a raid on a Cardiff shop ended with the deaths of two others on quad bikes.

• London saddles up for bike scheme

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 13:58)

  A bike hire scheme designed to encourage thousands more cycle journeys in central London begins.

• Gove defends academy schools list

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 13:40)

  The Education Secretary insists there no is rush for schools in England to become academies, after criticism over the number of schools coming forward.

• On the run

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 13:34)

  Northern Cyprus is a "haven" for fugitives no longer

• MoD 'to pay for Trident renewal'

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 12:41)

  The chancellor says the MoD, not the Treasury, will have to pay £20bn to renew the nuclear deterrent, putting extra pressure on the defence budget.

• Widow's relief as remains found

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 12:21)

  The widow of a man believed to have been killed by the IRA in 1981 said she felt sad but relieved that her husband's remains appeared to have been found.

• 'Dirty protest' hits jail staff

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 12:14)

  The Northern Ireland Prison Service says it has had to issue staff with protective clothing after urine was "aimed at them" in a jail protest.

• UK soldiers push to clear Taliban

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 12:06)

  Hundreds of UK soldiers launch an operation to clear Taliban insurgents from a key stronghold in southern Afghanistan.

• Naked woman hurt in roof fall

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 12:03)

  A naked woman is injured after falling through a building roof in Aberdeen city centre.

• Ennis makes strong start at Euros

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 11:55)

  Britain's Jessica Ennis gets her bid for European heptathlon gold off to a strong start by winning the 100m hurdles and the high jump events in Barcelona.

• On your bike

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 11:39)

  Testing London's new hire bicycles

• Prescott Iraq intelligence doubts

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 11:27)

  The intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat was "not very substantial", former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott says.

• Hoop dreams

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 11:27)

  Did they really play croquet at the Olympics?

• Strikes and ash extend BA losses

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 11:22)

  BA reveals a steep quarterly loss of £164m after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.

• Chilcot inquiry to travel to Iraq

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 11:05)

  The committee conducting the official Iraq war inquiry says it intends to visit the country later this year.

• Bad trip

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 10:31)

  Are family holidays worth all the hassle?

• Expenses four in appeals defeat

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 10:12)

  Three ex-Labour MPs and an ex-Tory peer lose appeals over a ruling that they are not protected from prosecution by parliamentary privilege over expenses fraud allegations.

• Man arrested over gangland murder

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 09:56)

  A 28-year-old man is arrested in connection with the murder of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Glasgow.

• Coalition deal 'untruths' claim

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 09:42)

  Labour's Ed Miliband claims the coalition government was "built on a series of untruths" after revelations in a BBC documentary.

• Public to veto council tax rises

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 09:37)

  The public will be able to veto their council tax bills in England if charges are above an agreed limit, ministers will announce.