UK News: BMW motors ahead with investment

BMW will build its next generation of Minis in Britain in a move that will help safeguard more than 5000 jobs, the company said today.

The German car giant said it would be investing another 500 million in what David Cameron said was a "tremendous vote of confidence" in the workforce.

Government vaccine vow

THE Government was today set to promise to match millions of pounds in donations by businesses to fund vaccines for children in the developing world.

Up to 50 million of public money will be set aside for the scheme, with the Government matching business donations up to that amount.

Archbishop in attack on reforms 'no-one wanted'

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Government is committing Britain to fundamental reforms in health and education "for which no-one voted".

In a magazine article Dr Rowan Williams raised concern about people's "bafflement and indignation" with the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition's policies.

"With remarkable speed, we are being committed to radical, long-term policies for which no-one voted," he wrote.

Changes 'force GPs out'

More than half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary findings from a major British Medical Association survey.

The details of the study, which was sent to every GP in the UK in April, were published today, ahead of the start of the annual GP conference of Local Medical Committees in London today.

Police probe Kate hacking

SCOTLAND Yard could widen its investigation into hacking amid claims Tony Blair and the Duchess of Cambridge have been victims.

The force has received allegations which fall outside its ongoing probe into hacking claims against News of the World staff.

Manchester: A mental health trust has apologised to the family of a patient who died in a hospital corridor. Peter Thompson, a voluntary patient at Edale House in Manchester, was drunk and denied entry to the ward because he refused to hand over a bottle of vodka. An inquest found his death was "wholly preventable".

Newcastle: The heroic police officer who was blinded by gunman Raoul Moat has written a book about the night he nearly died and how he has rebuilt his life. Pc David Rathband was shot twice as he sat in his patrol car on a layby west of Newcastle last July.