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All flights to and from London Heathrow have been cancelled today due to a fire at a nearby electricity substation.

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

A man has been found guilty of murdering a pensioner whose body parts were found scattered across Greater Manchester last year.

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.

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.

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

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

A back-up generator that could have kept Heathrow open was also affected by the fire that shut down the airport, Ed Miliband has revealed.