Britain today: Clegg claims UK will be 'more liberal'

In a speech today, he was set to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning liberal principles, insisting the Lib Dems remain independent.

MP's campaign assessed

Officials at the Electoral Commission will today begin assessing information about the campaign spending of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith.

Channel 4 News raised questions over the money spent in his successful election campaign in Richmond Park, London.

Policeman's wife calls Moat group 'ignorant'

The wife of the police officer shot in the face by Raoul Moat said today members of a controversial Facebook group dedicated to the gunman were "ignorant".

The creator of the RIP Raoul Moat You Legend group took down the webpage after it came under fire from Prime Minister David Cameron.

However, Siobhan O'Dowd was unrepentant, saying the former bodybuilder was "still a human being at the end of the day" and that she may reinstate the group.

OAPs' benefits unclaimed

Pensioners are failing to claim up to 5.4 billion in benefits every year even though many of them are struggling to make ends meet, research for a charity indicated today.

Age UK estimates that 1.97 million older people who are eligible for council tax benefit are not claiming it, collectively missing out on 1.5 billion a year from this benefit alone - an average of 728 each.

Williams rejoins Take That

Robbie Williams and Take That have ended months of speculation by announcing that they have reunited for a new album.

Williams, who walked out on the group 15 years ago as he began to go off the rails, said: "It feels like coming home."

LONDONDERRY: Londonderry's selection as the UK's first City of Culture is a fitting tribute to all those who have worked for peace through its troubled past, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister said. Martin McGuinness said the accolade ensured his native Londonderry could now look to a brighter future.

MERSEYSIDE: The funeral of a young soldier who died with three colleagues when their armoured vehicle plunged into an Afghan canal was to take place in the Wirral today. Private Alex Isaacs, 20, was in Helmand Province to help train officers from the Afghan National Police.