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4:36pm Monday 13th February 2012

A teacher who was sacked after she wrote a racy novel featuring some of her pupils has said it is "wonderful news" that she will not have to face a hearing of the General Teaching Council (GTC).

4:24pm Monday 13th February 2012

Britain's most controversial police chief has been returned to jail after being found guilty of corruption for a second time.

3:56pm Monday 13th February 2012

Rangers Football Club has lodged legal papers signalling its intention to enter administration.

3:38pm Monday 13th February 2012

A deaf and mute girl allegedly kept in a cellar, repeatedly raped and treated as a virtual slave has told a court of years of beatings and cruelty.

3:37pm Monday 13th February 2012

Britain's most controversial police chief faces a return to jail after being found guilty of corruption for a second time.

1:29pm Monday 13th February 2012

Downing Street has dismissed suggestions that Health Secretary Andrew Lansley should be sacked and insisted ministers were "fully behind" his NHS reforms.

12:33pm Monday 13th February 2012

The Metropolitan Police has launched a counter-terror campaign urging people to report suspicious behaviour by calling a dedicated hotline.

12:23pm Monday 13th February 2012

A man whose dog bit off part of a six-year-old girl's ear has been given a 12-week suspended jail term and placed under curfew for six weeks.

12:20pm Monday 13th February 2012

A senior figure at The Sun has launched a forthright attack on police who arrested five Sun journalists, claiming his colleagues had been treated like "members of an organised crime gang".

11:58am Monday 13th February 2012

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has appealed to businesses to sign up to the coalition's drive to tackle youth unemployment.