Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide.

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A British Santa has been suspended from his job after he allegedly told children about the US school massacre and that he was not really Father Christmas.

A review has absolved senior BBC executives of trying to bury an explosive story about one of its best-known children's TV stars, saying management errors were to blame.

British reviewers were scathing about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s "Girl Power" pop group the Spice Girls.

Singer Florence Welch halted a gig in Scotland over the weekend to break up a fight between fans.

A British court has reduced a fraudster's jail sentence by one week, to give her a better chance of starting a new life in New Zealand.

Spice Girl Mel B has confessed to having had violent punch-ups with her bandmate Mel C.

Kiwi expats are apologising to a London pub after drunken All Blacks fans went on an ugly rampage following last weekend's rugby loss to England.

I was interested to read the story of British soldier Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, who is a member of the Scots Guard F company.

Tom Mockridge is one of the most influential New Zealanders you've probably never heard of.

For years, the four-storey brick terrace house where Charles Dickens lived with his young family was a dusty and slightly neglected museum. Now it's gone from Bleak House to Great Expectations.

Many women miscarry without a safety net of support, writes Meredith Nash. But why is it taboo to talk about foetal loss in public?

Everyone worries that the All Blacks will have their minds on summer back home instead of the test against England this Sunday.

In London, Pattrick Smellie meets a group of Kiwi businesswomen who reckon they're in the ideal place to take on the world.

Daniel Carter's first public appearance since his fatherhood tweet delivered a battle between the rugby scribes and the fluffy social media types.

Sitting in Auckland in 2012, 1950s Britain looks a bit dull - the Beatles hadn't even been formed let alone discovered acid, writes Winston Aldworth.