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By Tom Bill LONDON (Reuters) - Almost a quarter of commercial property loans in Britain are higher in value than the underlying real estate, a study showed on More »

A jury has viewed a car belonging to murder suspect Mark Bridger and the bike that was being ridden by schoolgirl April Jones on the night she went missing. More »

Tributes have been paid to a retired university lecturer who died when he was trampled by cows. More »

The mother of murdered schoolgirl Tia Sharp wants to visit Stuart Hazell in prison so she can ask why he killed her daughter, she has said. More »

University tuition fees have risen nine-fold in the past six years, but students are only getting 20 minutes extra a week with lecturers as a result, according to More »

A forensic scientist said there was "no physical evidence" to back up Mark Bridger's claims that he ran over schoolgirl April Jones, a court heard. More »

Stuart Hazell has been jailed for a minimum of 38 years after he was given a life sentence for murdering schoolgirl Tia Sharp. More »

A team of "selfless" school pupils relinquished their chances of finishing the Ten Tors Challenge to rescue a girl from a swollen river and guide dozens of other More »

Oxford University is to honour former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died last month, with a £100 million scholarship trust for "future leaders", the Daily More »

The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Tia Sharp changed his plea Monday to guilty in a dramatic U-turn five days into the trial. More »

A forensic scientist said evidence found in the home of Mark Bridger indicated that schoolgirl April Jones may have been lying on his living room floor "shedding More »

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has defended testing pregnant women for smoking. More »

Nick Clegg's opposition to childcare reforms is part of an effort to fight off internal efforts to oust him as Liberal Democrat leader, Education Secretary Michael More »

A renowned double bass teacher is being questioned on suspicion of indecently assaulting a former pupil, sources have confirmed. More »

The "naked rambler" has been fined after he was found guilty of nine public order offences for walking nude in public places including outside a primary school. More »

The family of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen are commemorating the fifth anniversary of his death, just a day after they marked what would have been his 21st More »

A public school mistakenly believed that a father had already been told about his son's death before it posted an announcement online. More »

A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calls for GCSEs and primary school tests to be age-adjusted to ensure that youngsters born at the end of the More »

An indecent picture alleged to be of schoolgirl Tia Sharp was taken after she had died, a court has heard. More »

The rising number of children who are still in nappies when they start school is being targeted by a new pilot project. More »

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a June conference hosted by Israel's President Shimon Peres, joining an academic boycott of the Jewish More »

The man accused of kidnapping and murdering schoolgirl April Jones behaved in a "strange" and "odd" manner at a parents' evening hours before her disappearance, a More »