A Kent man is awarded £5,925 in compensation following a "holiday from hell" in the Dominican Republic.

The number of fish which have died in a canal pollution incident almost quadruples to more than 15,000.

Demolition work is under way on a three-storey building which caught fire in Bolton town centre.

BP says the chief executive of its Russian venture TNK-BP has temporarily left Russia because of "sustained harassment".

London Market Report

A two-year-old boy from the UK is in intensive care after falling from a hotel balcony in an accident in Spain.

A road over a Shropshire bridge which has been shut to traffic since the autumn reopens later this week.

Barack Obama tells Berliners the US and Europe have drifted apart and it is time for them to come together again.

Police call for vigilance after three cannabis factories are uncovered in one day.

An ex-US narcotics official accuses President Hamid Karzai of obstructing efforts to tackle the Afghan drugs trade.

A man who waged a hate campaign against a disabled pensioner and her epileptic son is jailed.

Dental practices in parts of Somerset are having to advertise for patients because they have a surplus of NHS places.

Officials in Leicester say they are going to carry out the biggest ever crackdown on under-age drinking.

A pub landlady is fined after an undercover investigator spots her and her customers lighting up around the bar.

The head of South Africa's governing ANC party, Jacob Zuma, says he is shocked by white poverty in the country.

Council officers hope to catch vandals by using their own personalised graffiti signatures to identify them.

Reporter Carl Yapp sends his web diary from the 2008 Royal Welsh Show at Llanelwedd.

Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams accuses the DUP of failing to engage properly to avoid a political crisis at Stormont.

Images from US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's visit to Berlin where he is making a key speech on ties with Europe.

Dozens of French military units are closing as part of a major shake-up in defence strategy, the PM announces.

The drivers of a car and motorcycle are killed in a head-on collision on the A38, causing major delays.

A man's body is discovered in a flat after a neighbour reported maggots falling through his ceiling.

A 150-year-old chestnut tree at the centre of a row about pruning trees to make way for a temporary bus route is cut back.

World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won his legal action against a newspaper over reports of a Nazi-style orgy.

As the Olympics come to Beijing, migrant workers are preparing to leave the city they helped to build.

Moving a laboratory from Lincoln hospital could put lives at risk, a leading micro-biologist warns.

A farmer recovers at home after he is thrown clear as his tractor tumbles 300ft down a hillside.

A 17-year-old is assaulted by two men and urinated on during an attack on an Addlestone street.

Councillors seek assurances from health bosses over a planned shake-up of hospital services in South Cumbria.

The South African judge Navanethem Pillay is nominated as the new UN high commissioner for human rights.

After the glitz and glamour of worldwide fame, the members of Fron Choir turn their hand to busking.

A businessman sues for £5.1m over beach pollution which could cost millions of pounds to clean.

Car lovers gather in Indiana to wish the Model T a happy 100th birthday but there is a sense of unease about where the latter-day Ford is heading.

The mother of a Londonderry man killed in a plane crash in Thailand says she just wants justice for her son.

About 39,000 asylum seekers among a backlog of applications are allowed to stay in the UK.

The director of a top US cancer research institute warns thousands of staff of possible risks from mobile phone use.

Three of the world's top carmakers unveil plans to help them survive as the industry faces slumping demand.

New plans for the future of the seafront at St Anne's in Lancashire are available to view for the first time.

A four-year-old boy is praised by firefighters after he dialled 999 to raise the alarm about a fire at his home in Liverpool.

A six-year-old girl from Wigan dies a month after her dress caught fire at a family barbecue.

A historic Fife paper mill ceases production with the loss of 180 jobs.

More energy is used to sort recycling waste at a depot than at the kerbside, a report reveals.

Frankfurt Market Report

A body is found in a burning car in a country park in Crawfordsburn, County Down

A 43-year-old man who stabbed his gay lover to death at his Cumbrian home has been jailed for life.

A 28-year-old man pleads guilty to killing his mother at the the home they shared in Bedford.

On a visit to the Royal Welsh Show, Conservative leader David Cameron gives his support to a badger cull in Wales.

Russian shareholders in TNK-BP are locked in an increasingly bitter boardroom battle with BP.

Paris Market Report

A businessman wins £22,000 in libel and breach of privacy after his personal details were printed on the Facebook website.