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Thousands of passengers are facing delays and cancellations after Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, was forced to close following a fire at a nearby substation.

As the clock ticked down towards 12.01am Eastern Standard Time on 12 March, Liam Bates kept refreshing his browser.

A man with a "fixation" for horror and gore has been found guilty of murdering his housemate and sawing him into 27 pieces.

A man has been arrested after "life-threatening" explosive chemicals were discovered inside a property along a seafront in Sussex, police say.

The chancellor's update on the economy next week is not going to be an emergency budget in its truest sense. But it will be a moment when the sirens flash red.

Government spending and borrowing have defied expectations, resulting in "perilous" public finances and placing pressure on the chancellor to raise taxes or cut spending.

Heathrow Airport will remain shut until midnight after a large fire at a nearby electricity substation, disrupting travel for tens of thousands of passengers.

Ed Miliband said he is "not anticipating" cuts to GB Energy ahead of the chancellor announcing the biggest spending squeeze on Whitehall in years.

Reports suggest one of Stephen Lawrence's killers has accepted he was at the scene of the murder but claims he did not wield the knife, the Parole Board has said.

Vladimir Putin will break any peace agreement with Ukraine that is not "defended" by an international coalition of forces, the British prime minister has said.