UK News: Police probe Chelsea player over shooting

POLICE will speak to officials from Chelsea in the coming days following reports that defender Ashley Cole accidentally shot a work placement student at the football club's training ground.

The club said it was taking "appropriate action" over the matter.

Delayed drivers see red

TRAFFIC lights are the bane of motorists' lives - and now the reason for red light hold-ups has been revealed.

The number of sets of traffic lights has risen sharply in recent years to more than 25,000, a report for the RAC Foundation said today.

Numbers jumped by 30 per cent between 2000 and 2008.

Miliband warns of 'crisis' ahead for middle earners

ED Miliband was today set to warn of a "cost of living crisis" that will leave middle-earners struggling even if the economy recovers.

The Labour leader has seized on the launch of an independent think tank inquiry to renew his focus on what he calls the "squeezed middle" - and admit Labour forgot them in the past.

Data suggests wages for low and middle earners have failed to keep pace with wider economic growth since the 1970s.

Family tell of ski tragedy

THE family of a British gap year student who plunged to his death from a chalet rooftop in an upmarket French ski resort said they are "overwhelmed".

Edward De Nunzio, 18, fell 16ft from the icy roof as he jumped between buildings in Courchevel during the early hours of Saturday. The trainee ski instructor, from North Yorkshire, had been out with a friend who escaped unharmed.

Cricketer reveals he's gay

ENGLAND wicketkeeper Steven Davies has become the country's first serving cricket professional to announce he is gay, describing the revelation as "a massive relief".

The Surrey player, 24, said: "I'm comfortable with who I am - and happy to say who I am in public."

Lancashire: Police were today investigating the deaths of three men who died separately in heroin-related incidents in just over an hour. The bodies of Robin Ferguson, 53, Emlyn Hodgkinson, 36, and Zaheer Chaudrey, 32, were all discovered late on Friday night.

Surrey: Police were today appealing for information after a man in his 60s was killed in an apparent hit-and-run incident when his car smashed into a motorway embankment, overturned and caught fire. Police are trying to trace the driver of another car involved in the collision, who drove away from the scene on the M3.