England, famously described two centuries ago as a "green and pleasant land" by the poet William Blake, is today a sickly yellow after a dire lack of rain.

A doctor who wrongly connected a young man's organs, which meant his bowel contents were re-deposited into his stomach, has been struck off the medical register.

Two more men have been charged with plotting the shooting of a member of the gang that carried out Britain's biggest ever cash robbery.

Britons are set for another day of heat following record-breaking temperatures, but rain is forecast in parts of the UK.

Detectives have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading them to a man they want to arrest over the murder of Finbar Sullivan.

Two more men have been charged with plotting the shooting of a member of the gang that carried out Britain's biggest ever cash robbery.