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The Utility Regulator is referring Phoenix Gas to the Competition Commission over the company's refusal to accept new controls which would have slashed the price of gas

The Met Police backs calls for a law change to ensure fuller details can be revealed in cases in which people have died at the hands of officers.

Pasty 'farce' and petrol 'panic' fill the papers

Bo Xilai, the politician at the centre of China's biggest political scandal in years, is the victim of a smear campaign, a source close to his family tells the BBC.

Japan hangs three death row inmates in its first executions since July 2010, local media report.

Kent County Council backs plans for a grammar school to expand onto a new site - the first major expansion of a grammar in England for 50 years.

Arab League states call for the immediate implementation of a plan to end a year of violence in Syria as Syria's president says he backs the plan.

The government made a mistake in advising people to store petrol in jerrycans to prepare for a possible strike by fuel tanker drivers, a minister says.

Pope Benedict XVI criticises the 50-year-old US trade embargo on Cuba and calls for greater rights as he ends his visit to the island.

Teachers in Nottingham walk out on strike over proposed changes to terms, forcing several schools to shut for the day.

Florida senator and conservative favourite Marco Rubio endorses Mitt Romney in the race for the US Republican presidential nomination.

The RSPB's annual wildlife survey has recorded the lowest number of starlings in UK gardens for 30 years.

Most universities in England are going to have fewer places to offer students this year, as the funding changes in higher education are implemented.

A significant number of arts companies who lost all their core Arts Council England funding last year have shut down or are closing, research reveals.

What happened to bodies that lost Arts Council England funding?

The government should end its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income in overseas aid by next year, a parliamentary committee says.

Nominations close for May's council elections - the first since devolution to be held separately from the election to the Scottish Parliament.

Sound and images of a South African paramedic's life

Why the world is watching by-elections in Burma

Voters in Bradford West are going to the polls to make their decision in a by-election prompted by the resignation of the constituency's MP.