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12:31pm Thursday 31st May 2012

Investigations into allegations of corruption at the heart of the Stephen Lawrence investigation have turned up no new evidence, it has been announced.

12:25pm Thursday 31st May 2012

Corruption in cricket must be eradicated to enable the game to survive as a "truly competitive sport", the country's top judge has stressed.

12:14pm Thursday 31st May 2012

Staff who helped their hospital win a national award are said to be "insulted" after they were thanked with a free Kit Kat bar worth 60p.

11:54am Thursday 31st May 2012

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt sent a "great news" message to James Murdoch on the day he was given responsibility for media competition issues, he told the inquiry into press standards.

11:22am Thursday 31st May 2012

Jeremy Hunt has told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics that he did hold an unminuted meeting as Culture Secretary with James Murdoch, without the presence of officials - but said he had been told that was "entirely at my discretion" to do so.

11:02am Thursday 31st May 2012

Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks for the First World War.

10:49am Thursday 31st May 2012

Bunting, Pimms and even Jubilee gnomes are flying off the shelves as retailers and consumers ready themselves for "the party of the year".

10:47am Thursday 31st May 2012

A sports agent and a cricketer have lost Court of Appeal challenges against match-fixing convictions.

10:39am Thursday 31st May 2012

Judges at the UK's highest court have dismissed a profoundly disabled man's appeal over his care package.

10:36am Thursday 31st May 2012

Showers could dampen some street celebrations over the Diamond Jubilee weekend, but the Queen's Thames river pageant is set to be dry this Sunday.