The publisher of the Daily Mirror, Liverpool Echo and Birmingham Post becomes the latest UK media group to report modest improvement in advertising, but its regional publications continue to suffer

Lord Mandelson has outlined plans to create "a modern technician class" in a move that acknowledges a skills gaps employers have long complained about

Hundreds of thousands of innocent people will continue to have their DNA records stored on a national police database, the government says, raising the prospect of further legal action against the practice

Penelope Curtis, curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, has been appointed the new director of Tate Britain

South African based mining group appoints Sir Philip Hampton, the new chairman of RBS, as a non-executive director, in what it promises will be a boardroom shake-up