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With the success of Scottish and Yorkshire athletes reflected in Team GB’s final Olympics medal tally, former PM Gordon Brown says the UK could become a “beacon” for how countries can co-exist.
Alistair Brownlee’s triathlon victory means Yorkshire leapfrogs Hungary, North Korea and the Netherlands in the London 2012 medal rankings.
Olympic heptathlon champion Jess Ennis talks Channel 4 News through her seven steps to gold, from the high of the hurdles to the nerves of the 800m and the fear her shoe might fall off.
Jessica Ennis is in number one spot four events into her campaign for Olympic gold in the heptathalon following a day that saw her set a world record in the hurdles and a personal best in the 200m.
A week to go, and if you can look past the (barring catastrophe) triumph of Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France, the biggest item on the summer sports agenda is the blue riband event of the Olympics.
After their rose garden tryst, David Cameron and Nick Clegg renew their coalition vows with a “brief encounter” at a train shed in Birmingham, announcing a £9bn boost for Britain’s railways.
Science Editor Tom Clarke looks at the growing band of sports scientists seeking ways to help competitors follow the Olympic motto of going “faster, higher, stronger”.
Britain’s eight biggest cities outside London are to be given devolved powers over planning, education and transport, in return for pledges to improve local economies and infrastructure.
Dead famous: the extraordinary career of US folk-singer Rodriguez who gave up recording, never imagining his music was a massive hit in far away South Africa where they thought he was dead.
Former manager and Ibrox legend Walter Smith is leading a last-minute bid for control of the new company that will replace Rangers. Andrew McFadyen reports.
Parents of some British Somalis are sending their children back to Africa because they fear what might happen to them in the UK, writes reporter Jamal Osman.
Scottish drinkers are set to have to pay more for alcohol than their counterparts in England and Wales after the Holyrood government set a target minimum price of 50p per unit.
couple of days after the budget, with rows raging about the “granny tax” and George Osborne’s decision to help the super-rich by cutting the 50p rate, the PM had what seemed like a smart idea. Number 10 decided to bring forward plans to increase the price of cheap alcohol, to tackle binge drinking and what David Cameron called “the mayhem on our streets”. According to Mr Cameron cheap booze is causing a “scourge of violence” – a million violent crimes and more than a million hospital admissions each year. Setting a minimum unit price (MUP) would, he promised, provide “a big part of the answer”. But I’ve found out that just four days before he made his announcement, he’d been warned by one of his own ministers that the policy could well be illegal. Was the PM right to go ahead or should he have listened to his colleague?
Voters across England, from Manchester to Newcastle, reject David Cameron’s dream of an elected mayor in the major cities.
Boris Johnson looks set to beat his rival Ken Livingstone for a second time in the London mayoral battle, as council seats are decided around the UK.