The father of a girl dubbed 'Britain's Youngest Mum' has apparently broken his silence and told a radio station he is proud of the 12-year-old schoolgirl.

Andrew Alderson finds himself drawn to an unusual museum.

His identity is a mystery - but the hedge fund exec who dodged $83,000-worth of train fares has got the villagers of Stonegate gossiping.

How did a high-flying executive manage to avoid paying $82,000 in train tickets over five years during his commute into London (and how did he get caught?)

Deadly piranhas were the unlikely cause of a badly backed-up English sewer, according to water company inspectors.

The UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is to start giving its official stamp of approval to Master's courses, effectively creating the first certified degrees for spies.

A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded.

An incoming UK Labour government would appoint a gay rights envoy to tackle discrimination around the world, Ed Miliband has pledged.

The Tate has been ordered to return a valuable Constable painting and criticised for failing to adequately research its background after it emerged the work was looted during the Second World War.

They are seven simple words we all take for granted. But as Joanne Milne heard her doctor recite the days of the week, she was overwhelmed with emotion, fighting back tears and gasping to catch her breath.

Ewan McDonald cops a serve in Detective Inspector Rebus' favourite watering-hole.

David Cameron played a "nukes on the loose" war game with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and other world leaders to see how they would cope with a terrorist nuclear attack, it has emerged.

Peter Oakley, who has died aged 86, shrugged off the expectations of old age to become an Internet sensation through his wistful, heartfelt video diary on YouTube.

The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some used to heat Britain's hospitals, an investigation has found.

How much does it cost UK police to change a lightbulb? It sounds like it should be a joke, but the answer won't have British taxpayers laughing.

Aides of Margaret Thatcher expressed little surprise when Kiwi nurse Pip Easterbrook didn't want to work for the woman known as Britain's Iron Lady.

The "no make-up selfie" trend has helped charity Cancer Research UK raise more than £1 million through 800,000 text donations since yesterday.

When Neil Trotter rang former partner Kirstine to tell her of his EuroMillions prize, her response was a remarkably good-natured: "That's typical of you, Trotter".

A British woman held in a Pakistani jail with her baby was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to smuggle heroin worth £3.2m (NZD$6m) out of the country.

A busy road had to be closed by police as they searched for the severed penis of the man, who was found severely injured in the early hours of the morning.

The late Princess Diana leaked a royal phone directory to the now defunct News of the World tabloid, its former royal editor has told Britain's phone-hacking trial.

A century after the Welsh poet's birth, Kevin Pilley wonders what Dylan Thomas would make of his old boozer.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's stock image-esque photo of himself on the phone to US President Barack Obama has been lampooned by Twitter heroes.