Actor Alan Devereux, who played the role of Sid Perks in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers for nearly 50 years, has died aged 75.

Vote Leave says the UK could have a "fairer, more humane" points-based immigration system if it left the EU, but Remain campaigners say it would "wreck" the economy.

A coroner will rule on whether inquests into the 21 deaths in the Birmingham pub bombings should be resumed.

The 92 Premier League and Football League clubs generated more than £4bn in revenues for the first time ever in 2014-15, according to Deloitte.

One in five people with motor neurone disease waits more than a year to see a brain specialist for help with diagnosis, a snapshot survey by the MND Association suggests.

The world added far more renewable energy sources than fossil fuels in 2015, with developing countries overtaking richer nations on green spending.

There were almost 8,000 arrests last year for drug driving in England and Wales, figures obtained by BBC Radio 5 live suggest.

Ministers need to justify a £250m lorry park in Kent "the size of Disneyland", a report by the Transport Select Committee says.