Twelve men are arrested in Oxford during a police operation targeting child exploitation offences including trafficking, grooming and rape.

Next reports another year of record profits but says it is cautious about this year as consumers continue to be squeezed.

About one in seven pupils in England missed out on their first choice of secondary school this year, official figures show.

A man suspected of killing seven people in southern France dies after police end a siege with an assault on a flat in Toulouse.

Convicted sex attacker Antoni Imiela, described by a judge as the M25 rapist, is jailed for 12 years for an attack on a woman in 1987.

A report into corruption in the Republic's planning process finds that former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to truthfully account for a number of financial transactions.

Labour accuse the government of "serious breaches" of the ministerial code over apparent Budget leaks.

Chancellor George Osborne tells the BBC he is not a top rate taxpayer and is personally "not a big winner from this Budget".