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Elena Baltacha will play Johanna Larsson in the opening rubber of Britain's Fed Cup World Group II play-off against Sweden.

Force India choose not to run their cars in the second practice session at the Bahrain GP so they can return to their hotel before dark.

Two women are killed after bears escape from their enclosures at a park in northern Japan - people are being told to stay indoors.

Five things the supermarket giant got wrong

The pilot of a coastguard helicopter in Shetland is suspended after dropping in on a butcher in Orkney to pick up meat.

30ft-tall girl wakes up to start three-day event

North Wales Police are the only Welsh force to see an overall rise in crime over the past year with burglaries up 22%.

One in five students at new £18,000 private London college are from state schools, show figures for the first intake.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon urges the firm behind the latest power cut at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary "to get its act together".

Three teenagers are detained for life for the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at a central London Tube station.

Influential guitarist Bert Weedon, who inspired musicians such as Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Brian May, dies aged 91.

Bill Ng withdraws his bid to buy Rangers because he believes the bidding process has become "untenable".

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has called for British drivers to boycott the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Arsenal and Chelsea in the Premier League.

Chancellor George Osborne is under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to provide more loans to help economies in trouble.

UK retail sales volumes jumped 1.8% in March compared with the previous month, official figures show, the biggest rise in more than a year.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp "would make a good England coach", says Bolton chairman Phil Gartside.

A blogger has highlighted the issue of unused electronics waste in one of China's most polluted towns.

The stage version of The King's Speech is to close, after its producers admit that the play followed too quickly after the Oscar-winning film.

The multi-millionaire owner of a County Durham company announces he is to leave the company to benefit the community rather than his family.