UK News: Labour slams Tories over milk axe debacle

Downing Street was accused by Labour of making policy "on the hoof" after abruptly dumping coalition plans to scrap free school milk.

Number 10 stamped on the controversial idea just hours after health minister Anne Milton insisting the provision for under-fives was outdated and too expensive.

Wedding row pair slain

Tributes were paid to a Birmingham couple murdered in Pakistan in a suspected "honour killing" over an arranged marriage.

Taxi driver Gul Wazir and his wife Begum were reportedly shot during a dispute after the collapse of the planned marriage of their daughter.

Tributes to 'heroic' murdered British doctor

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic joined tributes to a "heroic" British doctor and nine other aid workers shot by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan.

Dr Karen Woo, 36, was among six Americans, one German and two Afghan interpreters executed in an ambush in Badakhshan province as they returned from delivering medical supplies to poor mountain communities.

She had been due to fly back to the UK within days to marry her fiance.

UK breast cancer shock

Breast cancer rates are more than four times higher in the UK than in Eastern Africa, figures showed today.

Some 87.9 per 100,000 UK women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, compared to just 19.3 women per 100,000 in Eastern Africa.

Lifestyles in Britain were blamed but some of the difference is because UK doctors are better at diagnosing the disease.

Robbie and Ayda celebrate

ROBBIE Williams was enjoying his first full day of married life today after tying the knot with actress Ayda Field in the grounds of his Beverly Hills mansion.

The pair exchanged vows in front of several dozen family and friends during the 30-minute ceremony.

Essex: More than 100 thrill-seekers rode a rollercoaster naked for charity at Adventure Island in Southend-on-Sea yesterday. Organisers say the feat smashed the previous world record of 32, set at Alton Towers in 2004.

Gloucestershire: A pensioner may have one of the world's deadliest spiders livnig in his garden shed. Amateur wildlife cameraman Les Fryer, 71, filmed what resembles a highly poisonous funnel-web spider - never seen in Britain before - outside his home. His footage shows the black spider with distinctive white strips on its legs preying on a moth.