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British Gas is to pay £20m over its treatment of customers who had a prepayment meter forcibly installed.

Zack Polanski has admitted that he did not vote in last week's local elections - as he was not registered.

"I am pleased to report that I have delivered against the ambitious targets you set for me when I became your secretary of state for health and social care."

The Post Office awarded a £2.4m contract to a crisis PR company as it fights legal claims by victims of the Horizon IT scandal.

Five tourists, including a professor and her daughter, have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives.

The old saying "prevention is better than cure" couldn't be more apt when it comes to huge illegal waste dumps – because, quite frankly, finding a cure is proving near impossible. 

The UK's wealthiest people have been revealed in the Sunday Times Rich List, with the likes of Sir David Beckham and the Gallagher brothers raking in huge amounts over the last 12 months.

The head of the CIA has made a historic visit to Havana for talks with senior officials as the country is gripped by blackouts caused a US oil blockade.

Close contacts of people linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak in Reading are being offered antibiotics as a precaution.

A "most wanted" British man who imported large amounts of cocaine into the UK has been arrested in Spain.