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Stephen Smith looks at the cultural legacy of the twin bed hotel room.

A bendy bus catches fire outside Victoria railway station in central London causing travel disruption.

A man is rescued after he reportedly fell from a lighthouse and plunged into the sea off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway.

A 13-year-old girl and her uncle suffer serious burns when a gas cylinder explodes during her birthday barbecue in Wiltshire.

Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000.

Firefighters rescue a horse and its groom after the animal kicked its way out of a horse box and into the front cab.

A ring road in south Leeds will be closed for much of the weekend following a large gas mains fire, police say.

Violence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC.

A 26-year-old man from the Irish Republic is among nine people killed in a plane crash in New Zealand.

Yoko Ono makes an "emotional" visit to John Lennon's former school and childhood home in Liverpool.

A father and his 15-year-old son are killed in a motorbike accident outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

A 23-year-old man is rescued by two surfers after his homemade raft was blown out to sea off the Gower.

The recession and a litigious culture is making it harder to get youngsters involved in activity holidays, says the head of Outward Bound in Wales.

The interim managing director brought in to run a crisis-hit authority is to stay on for the forseeable future.

HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.

Novelist Ian McEwan talks to Matt Stadlen

Nine people, including one Briton, are killed when a light aircraft crashes after taking off from Fox Glacier in New Zealand, say reports.

One of Scotland's largest councils - North Lanarkshire - warns that it may have to cut more than 1,000 jobs.

The spending review's political arm-wrestling contest

Papers consider phone hack claims