A nine-year-old girl with underlying health problems has died after contracting swine flu, a hospital said today. It is not yet known whether swine flu contributed to her death and no further details are available, a Birmingham Children's Hospital...

Cheques will be phased out by October 31 2018, the UK's Payments Council said today. The payment method was first introduced 350 years ago but the body said cheque use was in "long-term, terminal decline". Chief executive Paul Smee said: "There are...

Serial killer Peter Tobin was today convicted of a third murder - that of teenager Dinah McNicol 18 years ago. Tobin, 63, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was found guilty of killing the 18-year-old sixth former after a three-day trial at Chelmsford...

A Long Eaton resident celebrated her 100th birthday this week - in the house she was born in. Florence Hind, a customer of Three Valleys Housing’s Carelink Service, celebrated the occasion with family and friends. Helen Scurr, Director of Housing at...

People in St Annes are looking forward to Christmas in newly-transformed apartments beside the seaside. Great Places Housing Group has transformed two Victorian properties, which had been divided into bedsits in the 1970s, to create new homes that are...

Residents spoke of their shock today after a crash between a lorry and a bus in the morning rush hour. Firefighters had to cut passengers free after the double-decker bus toppled on to its side. The driver of the C3 bus was one of five people...