UK News: Newspaper faces new phone-hacking probe

PRESSURE for a new probe into the News of the World phone-hacking case mounted today after police said they were ready to reopen their investigation.

Assistant Commissioner John Yates said the force had asked the New York Times to provide any new material it had relating to the matter.

Jobless 'will lose 500'

ALMOST 200,000 unemployed adults will lose around 500 a year if planned housing benefit cuts go ahead, union leaders warned today.

The TUC said some of the most vulnerable people in the country will be hit by proposals for a 10 per cent reduction in benefits.

Batsman denies latest corruption allegations

THE Pakistan batsman who accused team-mates of fixing matches said he had been "naive" and only repeated what he had read in the newspapers.

Yasir Hameed said he believed he was speaking to a potential sponsor and the conversation published in yesterday's News of the World was "inaccurately reported".

It was the latest corruption controversy to have engulfed the Pakistan cricket team during its tour of England.

15k cost of pregnancy

WOMEN would spend an average of 15,000 on IVF to get pregnant, with one in 10 willing to spend more than 50,000, research showed.

Those wishing to conceive would sacrifice most things to have a baby, with more than 90 per cent willing to cut down on saving for the future and everyday activities in order to fund treatment.

New dawn for breakfast TV

ADRIAN Chiles and Christine Bleakley ushered in a new dawn for breakfast television today.

The ex-One Show hosts welcomed viewers to their inaugural programme on ITV1's Daybreak, which featured an appearance by Tony Blair.

Brighton: Post-mortem examination results were set to be released today by detectives hunting the killer of a young man whose badly-burnt body was found at a golf course. Golfers discovered the corpse as they walked between the 17th and 18th holes at the Dyke Golf Club just before noon on Saturday.

Belfast: The most deprived in Northern Ireland are twice as likely to die from heart disease as the most affluent, it was revealed today. Poor diet, smoking and lack of exercise were all behind the increased death toll, according to the Belfast health trust.