The prolific retail investor, which last month won approval for a deal to avert the collapse of WHSmith's former high street arm, is weighing a bid for Harvey Nichols, the upmarket department store chain.

A schoolboy has been acquitted of attempted murder but found guilty of wounding with intent after stabbing his teacher in the head.

A man has died, and another left in a serious condition, after they got into difficulty in the sea off North Tyneside, police said.

A man has denied murdering a mother who was shot dead outside a Sheffield bar.

A taxi driver is suing Police Scotland over claims he spent 10 months in a prison after being wrongly arrested as part of a murder plot.

Newsreader and journalist Edward Stourton has died aged 68.