The Liberal Democrats have revealed figures showing that the declining value of the Winter Fuel Payment means it only just pays for a quarter of a pensioner's fuel bills. While the amount of the Winter Fuel Payment has been frozen at £200 for five years, fuel bills and the profits of energy companies have both risen.
Thousands of new homes for neighbourhoods of Rochdale are a step closer, following an agreement between Rochdale Council and developers BASE.
A row over a sculpture to celebrate the 2012 Olympics is continuing.
Paul Holmes, Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield has pledged to support Cancer Research UK's new Screening Matters campaign at a special parliamentary event.
Researchers say they have made the most significant breakthrough for 15 years in the quest to understand the fatal condition Motor Neurone Disease (MND). A team says a mutated gene is behind one form of the disease - and can be used to understand it better.
A man and two youths who kicked a disabled man to death over a £5 bet have been jailed for life. Brent Martin, 23, who had learning difficulties, died in hospital after he was found in a pool of blood on Sunderland's Town End Farm estate.
