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The official campaign encouraging people to vote "yes" in the Scottish independence referendum is to be launched, ahead of a possible vote in 2014.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser Adam Smith faces a second day of questioning later before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics.
The MoD has pressed ahead with cuts to military and civilian workforce without understanding what skills it will need in the future, MPs say.
The UK economy shrank by 0.3% in the first three months of the year, more than previously estimated, revised figures show.
Scotland will become the first place in the UK to introduce minimum drink pricing, after MSPs passed the plan at parliament.
Fewer than half of the schools in England which applied for money for rebuilding work have been successful.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood says he was "angry" at briefings, reportedly from former No 10 aide Steve Hilton, suggesting huge cuts are being considered to the civil service.
Carina Trimingham, partner of former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, has lost her breach of privacy and harassment case against the Daily Mail.
Science minister David Willetts outlines the government's high-tech industrial strategy and announces £250m in funding for research institutes across the UK
A glass roof panel has cracked in the atrium at Portcullis House - the latest in a string of problems to hit the building opened in 2001 to house MPs' offices and committee rooms.
Net migration to the UK remains more than double the government's target figure, according to new statistics.
EU leaders express support for keeping Greece in the eurozone while demanding that it stick with tough budget discipline.
Nick Clegg says it is wrong to believe Greece's exit from the euro would provide "instant relief" to Europe's economic problems and says he is open to suggestions about how to boost growth.
Downing Street denies back-tracking on plans to legislate for gay marriage in England and Wales after it was revealed Tory MPs will get a free vote on the issue.
Impressive efforts have been made by the UK tax authority to collect outstanding tax but more could have been done without job cuts, MPs say.
The Alliance Party pulls out of talks at Stormont aimed at promoting better community relations and greater integration in Northern Ireland.
A tour of the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont.
A move to second the deputy chief constable of Dumfries and Galloway to a group examining police reforms comes in for criticism.
BBC Democracy Live takes you on a tour of the Scottish Parliament.
Opponents criticise the Welsh government for reducing the number of daily express trains between Holyhead and Cardiff.
A guide to the National Assembly for Wales.
Kent County Council and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith join forces to tackle youth unemployment in the South East.
Andrew Selous, Conservative MP for South West Bedfordshire, continues his crusade against fly tipping.
Political analysis from around England
A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that UK businesses need better management rather than deregulation.
UK political websites
A guide to who's doing what in David Cameron's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
The details of Labour leader Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet following the recent reshuffle.
Links to other Parliamentary broadcasters
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg reacts to news that the UK economy shrank by 0.3% in the first three months of the year.
The leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group ruled out a pact with UKIP over joint candidates, that the anti-EU party is reported to be offering.
David Cameron's swipe at the shadow chancellor - calling him a "muttering idiot" - was the latest in a series of sharp one-liners to MPs from both sides of the House of Commons.
The Shadow Secretary for Culture Media and Sport, Harriet Harman, has said that the prime minister "should never have appointed Jeremy Hunt to decide on the Murdoch bid for BSkyB".
The Ministry of Justice has been sharing its own ideas on how to create a more diverse judiciary, but the law is not the only sector where women are less than equal in the senior stakes.
A lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation tells the Leveson Inquiry he did nothing ''inappropriate'' in contacting Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser.
The Conservative MP who chaired a Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection said less than half of parents were adding filters to computers and internet-enabled devices.
The former special adviser to the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has denied that Mr Hunt was close to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Why the UK's contingency plan for a Greek euro exit is hush-hush
Leaders delay decisions as Greek vote looms
Attempts to control dangerous mutts, since Roman times
Housing for cows and the other issues pushed by citizens
GP and ex-independent MP on new party's election hopes
Tracking the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems' fortunes
Thousands march for peace in Mexico TENS of thousands of people have marched in Mexico's second most populous city, angry at the inability of authorities to end a crime wave.
(heraldsun world)
Fake Android apps scam cost users £28,000 Malicious Android apps posed as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope in a scam that used premium rate text messages to defraud customers of £27,850.
(telegraph technology)
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches The creature lived in floodplains on what is now Greenland during a period known geologically as the Devonian period - about 360 to 410 million years ago.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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