Olympic champion Jessica Ennis wore a winning smile as she married her long-term partner at a church in Derbyshire's Peak District.

Michael Gove has faced the wrath of headteachers over the state of the education system, just hours after they passed a landmark vote of no confidence in the Government's school reforms.

A British tourist has drowned while swimming on a family holiday in Italy.

It marked the spellbinding start to the Harry Potter series of best-selling books which took the world by storm.

Police have named a 16-year-old girl who died after it is feared she used an illegal drug.

A teenage driver and her female passenger have died and three men are in hospital after their car careered off the road into undergrowth.

An NHS trust at the centre of a row over children's heart surgery is to replace its chief executive.

A woman branded morbidly obese by her GP has lost 21 stone in weight after an embarrassing trip to the dentist forced her to act.

A woman who disappeared while swimming off the Lincolnshire coast has been found alive after a major search operation.

The Archbishop of Westminster will bless more than 600 married couples to celebrate marriage as "an exclusive commitment and a life-long partnership between a man and a woman".

Favourites Denmark could prove a disaster for bookies if they land their predicted win at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Relatives of a five-year-old British girl who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt have said they are angry and hurt that more was not done to save her.