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9:22pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

The UK premiere of Ken Loach's new film The Angels' Share has taken place in the city where it is set.

7:04pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

Model and businesswoman Katie Price wants to set up a free school to help children who are visually-impaired and suffer from other disabilities, it has emerged.

5:56pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

Michael Gove has clashed with the man leading the inquiry into media ethics and warned him against new laws regulating the press.

5:15pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

Britain has ordered Syria's charge d'affaires to leave the country within seven days as part of a co-ordinated global response to a massacre of 108 people in Houla.

4:25pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

The Government is threatening to fundamentally undermine British traditions of open justice with proposed new laws, civil liberty campaigners have claimed.

3:45pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

A seventh file relating to Scotland Yard's phone hacking inquiry has been sent to prosecutors.

3:11pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

The relationship between the press and politicians is not always in the public interest, Michael Gove has said.

1:58pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by Premier League star Titus Bramble has told a court she repeatedly told him to leave her alone.

1:30pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

Theresa May has denied claims that News International pressured her into launching a fresh inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

1:23pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

Syria's Charge d'Affaires is being expelled from Britain as an expression of "horror" at the behaviour of the regime, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.