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 | 24/04/2009 2:50 pm

  • Streeting orders review into rising demand for mental health and ADHD services - The review will look at increased pressure on the NHS and whether there is any evidence of over-diagnosis.
  • Household bills will rise to fund £28bn investment in energy network - Ofgem says the investment will help lower reliance on imported gas and make wholesale energy cheaper.
  • Police accused of 'homophobic assumptions' over victims of blackmail on Grindr - A BBC investigation learns of five cases of suspected blackmail involving victims targeted on Grindr in one area.
  • Oil, defence and geopolitics: Why Putin is visiting Modi in Delhi - BBC editors explain what is at stake as Russian President Vladimir Putin starts a two-day visit to India.
  • 'A rumbling sound and a loud bang' - small earthquake hits homes in north-west England - Lancashire residents say the 3.3-magnitude tremor felt like "an underground explosion", but there are no reports of damage.
  • Wider use of facial recognition could see biggest change in policing since DNA, minister says - The Home Office hopes a new public consultation will lead to new laws expanding the use of the technology by more police forces.
  • Watch: Newly released video shows Jeffrey Epstein's private island home - Democrats released a new tranche of materials obtained through a subpoena to the US Virgin Islands, where the residence is located.
  • New mayoral elections to be delayed in four areas of England until 2028 - The new mayoralties in Greater Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, Hampshire and the Solent, and Sussex and Brighton will now be contested in 2028.
  • Porn site fined £1m over age checks has never responded to Ofcom - The regulator tells the BBC it has been emailing AVS Group Ltd without reply since July.
  • A speeding driver killed my parents - there needs to be a cultural change - Claire Corkery wants attitudes to change on road safety after her parents were killed by a speeding driver.
  • Cough medicines or lemon and honey – which is better for you? - What's the best way to deal with a cough and is lemon and honey as effective as medicine?
  • Why we chose to get married in front of two strangers we found through Reddit - Harmony Elmy and Seán Mauremootoo eloped hundreds of miles to Cardiff for their unconventional wedding.
  • 'My heart breaks every time I'm called a hero' - Hong Kong fire survivor describes horror of blaze - A survivor tells the BBC he feels guilty he didn't save more people from the blaze at his block of flats.
  • Henry Zeffman: Less than meets the eye to Starmer's words on Brexit - This week, the PM was trying to set the scene for what is to come on the UK-EU relationship, sources say.
  • Patients clogging A&E with hiccups, sore throats and other niggles - NHS bosses warn the public to use hospitals wisely amid concern this could be a tough winter.
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