The Tories are the natural romantics of the Union and should be supplying the passion to hold us together, says Graeme Archer.

Scottish First Minister suggests other bankers involved in financial crisis and convicted peers should lose titles.

Decision to strip former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin of knighthood criticised by leading business figure.

Disgraced former RBS boss degraded honours system says Cabinet Office, as David Cameron claims it was "right decision".

Detectives hunting an "extremely dangerous" murder suspect who escaped from a prison van following a "well-orchestrated armed ambush" have arrested a man in connection with the incident.

Executives' pay should be set partly according to how much they pay their rank-and-file staff under new government proposals.

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne will learn within weeks if he is to be charged with an offence after the Sunday Times dropped their challenge to a police bid to obtain emails relating to the speeding case.

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has said he "has confidence" in Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, and will decide whether he should be sacked if he is charged over the speeding fine row, Downing Street insisted today.

Interactive timeline shows the key events of Costa Concordia cruise disaster

It was meant to be an opportunity for the world's most famous living scientist to reflect on a remarkable career in front of an audience of friends and peers.

The mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has described her emotions on hearing the guilty verdicts for her son's killers 18 years after he died.

Doreen and Neville Lawrence lost not only their son Stephen on the night of April 22 1993, they lost the life that should have been, writes Neil Tweedie.

Two of Stephen Lawrence's killers were brought to justice by tiny fragments of blood, hair and fibres which were so small that they would "not fill a teaspoon", the court heard.