The Home Office has paid over £100000 damages to a Nigerian family of four including two young children and their mentally ill mother who were arrested in a dawn raid and spent seven weeks at a detention centre.

A man killed his wife by throwing a TV remote control at her head.

Bill Wiggin a Conservative MP who claimed £11000 in expenses for a "phantom mortgage" has been questioned by the parliamentary sleaze watchdog over fresh allegations that he abused his allowances.

A mother who abandoned her four young children to go on a 24hour drink and drug binge has escaped jail.

Older people find the NHS confusing neglectful and even "ageist" according to Dame Joan Bakewell the Government's adviser on the elderly.