Communities should know where a child rapist is living, says a children's charity after a judge ruled it was unlawful to keep him in prison.

More than 140 families voice fresh concerns about how the NHS ombudsman in England handles patients' complaints, week after a report raised the alarm.

A third of NHS contracts in England have been awarded to private sector firms since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, a probe finds.

Severe gales and flooding are expected to cause disruption as a so called "weather bomb" batters Scotland.

Millions of energy customers who have money left in old accounts are being given further encouragement to reclaim it by the energy industry.

The government is defeated for the 100th time in the House of Lords since it came to power in 2010.

Poor families in the UK will need more help to pay for heating their homes as energy bills rise, government advisors have warned.

As she prepares to receive her Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai tells the BBC of her political ambitions - and her hopes to be Pakistan PM.