UK News: Lib Dem's legal threat over vote campaign

Chris Huhne said senior Tories made false claims over the cost of introducing the alternative vote (AV) system.

Cause wants wedded bliss

CAMPAIGNERS were set to deliver an early wedding card to Prince William and Kate Middleton today calling on them to back marriage for same-sex couples.

The giant card was to be presented outside the gates of Buckingham Palace by supporters of the Equal Love campaign.

Medicine warning as malaria cases soar 30%

PEOPLE are being urged to pack anti-malaria pills if they go abroad after figures showed cases of the disease have jumped by almost 30 per cent in two years.

There were 1761 reports of malaria in the UK in 2010, up on the 1495 in 2009.

The data, from the Health Protection Agency, was released to mark World Malaria Day.

Of cases where information was available, 85 per cent involved people who had not taken anti-malaria pills.

Adele in Foos fight back

SINGER Adele has regained the top spot in the album chart after the Foo Fighters pushed her off the number one position for a week.

The singer's album 21 made pop history by spending 11 weeks at the top of the charts before the American rockers clinched it last Sunday.

SAS in recruitment crisis

THE SAS is facing a recruitment crisis because soldiers are too over-stretched to apply to join the elite regiment, a senior Army commander has warned.

In a leaked letter the head of the infantry Brigadier Richard Dennis said the "unrelentingly demanding" operations in Afghanistan were combining to "mitigate against Special Forces recruitment".

London: A university academic has been arrested after a teenage girl died within hours of being taken ill at a party in Kensington, which left three others in hospital. Her death is currently being treated as "unexplained", but police are examining whether she died after taking drugs.

Armagh: Three men were due in court today to face a series of terrorist charges linked to a cache of suspected dissident republican firearms recovered in Northern Ireland. The accused - aged 34, 35 and 39 - were arrested on Friday after police stopped a vehicle in Keady, south Armagh, close to the Irish border.