Police scour hills and moors for gunman

Armed officers shut down Rothbury, Northumberland, guarded schools with machine guns and scoured hundreds of acres of fields yesterday for the deranged gunman.

Cheryl 'in intensive care'

Cheryl Cole spent two hours in intensive care after being diagnosed with the deadly disease malaria, it was reported today.

The star was taken to the emergency unit at the Cromwell Hospital in west London and then transferred to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases for specialist care.

Drug advisors set to ban mephedrone alternative

The Government's drug advisers were expected today to recommend banning another legal high.

Advice on NRG-1 - similar to mephedrone - was to be created by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. It comes as experts warned that many of the alternatives to mephedrone available on the internet - often touted as "legal highs" - are just as risky. The substances contain the same chemicals as mephedrone, or related compounds.

Threat to waste facility

PROPOSALS for a 4 billion underground nuclear waste disposal facility might have to be shelved under swingeing Government cut-backs.

If up to 40 per cent is to be slashed from Minister's budgets to reduce Britain's 155 billion deficit, cuts on this scale would effectively put the nuclear repository scheme "in hibernation", according to its director.

Young slams ageist telly

PRESENTER Kirsty Young, pictured, has criticised the "ridiculous" dearth of older women on screen.

The 41-year-old former news anchor said it was "interesting" that veteran Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow was always paired up with a younger female.

London: Sacked social services chief Sharon Shoesmith spoke of her distress and sorrow over the death of Baby Peter as she warned that the "whole story" of what happened to the toddler had not yet been told. The former head of Haringey social services said the world had been given the wrong impression by some elements of the media.

Lincolnshire: Tales of heroism and bravery brought back the past at an RAF station, as Lancaster bomber veterans were reunited with the aircraft for what will probably be the last time at RAF Coningsby.