UK News: Huhne warns of action against energy firms

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne issued a stark warning today to gas and electricity providers that he would step in unless they stopped imposing "outrageous" hidden price hikes on customers.

Mr Huhne stressed the coalition's determination to protect consumers at the Lib Dem party's conference.

Cuts threat to families

Households in some parts of the country will lose more than 5 per cent of their income if the Government presses ahead with billions of pounds' worth of spending cuts to public services, according to a new report.

The TUC said areas heavily dependent on the public sector, will be hardest hit.

Police commissioners 'to cost an extra 100m'

Directly elected police and crime commissioners will cost 100 million more than the current system over the next five years, the Association of Police Authorities claimed.

The APA, which represents the authorities that will be replaced by the commissioners, said it was "unconvinced that this is a price the public are willing to pay".

It said that research showed the public does not want any individual responsible for policing to have an "obvious political allegiance".

British pair dead in Spain

A BRITISH couple were found dead at their home in Tenerife, Spanish police said.

The badly decomposed bodies were discovered in an apartment in the resort of Playa de Las Americas.

Police were reportedly alerted after neighbours noticed a smell coming from the property.

Officers broke in and found the bodies of a man, aged 57, and a 69-year-old woman.

One-on-One in TV awards

Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley are set to go head-to-head with their replacements on The One Show at the National Television Awards, it was announced today.

Daybreak and The One Show are among those up for Topical Magazine Programme Of The Year.

Devon: Mourners will gather today to pay their final respects to a British spy tortured by the Nazis in the Second World War.

Eileen Nearne MBE, 89, operated as an undercover agent called Rose and was caught and tortured by the Nazis three times.

She died on September 2 after suffering a heart attack.

London: Work was getting under way today to demolish one of Britain's most well-known council estates.

The Aylesbury estate in Southwark where Tony Blair made his first speech as prime minister, is undergoing a 1.5 billion regeneration.