Labour's Ed Miliband is to promise to protect small businesses from "unacceptable" treatment by energy firms.

Hundreds of Eurostar passengers are delayed as a result of a lightning strike near the line in Kent.

Ronnie O'Sullivan suffers his first loss of 2014 against China's Yu Delu in the Players' Championship Grand Final in Preston.

A Thai satellite appears to show images of up to 300 objects in a south Indian Ocean zone being searched for missing Malaysian flight MH370.

The UK's video-on-demand regulator calls for a change to the law to make overseas pornographic websites add age verification checks.

Police in the Caribbean are investigating the death of a British man who was found near a burning yacht off the coast of St Vincent.

About one in five British adults would turn down an invitation to a gay wedding, new research by the BBC suggests.

Regulators are to investigate 30m financial policies - including pensions and endowments - over concerns customers are subjected to "unfair" conditions.