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Woolwich attack – suspect named: reaction and latest developments • Cameron: it was attack on Britain and 'betrayal of Islam'• PM seems to say suspects were known to security services• Murdered man was a soldier who had served in Afghanistan• Two men under arrest in hospital• Attack prompts fears of backlash against British Muslims• Share your photos, videos or stories

Woolwich attack suspect identified as Michael Adebolajo Man videoed with bloodied knives is a British-born Nigerian who converted to Islam about 10 years ago

Woolwich attack: why David Cameron is right to reject knee-jerk responses | Alan Travis Alan Travis: Security hawks have wasted no time in demanding new counter-terror measures but the PM is right to resist them

David Cameron has the measure – so far - in the reaction to Woolwich attack | Patrick Wintour Patrick Wintour: The prime minister would do well to learn from the successes and failures of Tony Blair's response to 7 July bombings

Woolwich attack will only make us stronger, says Cameron Prime minister says soldier's murder was attack on British way of life and betrayal of Islam, as police prepare to question suspects

London attack: interview with Ingrid Loyau-Kennett Witness spoke to the two men who have since been arrested over the attack. She told Conal Urqhart her story

Lib Dem opposition to communications data bill 'putting country at risk' Following Woolwich attack, Labour peers Lord West and Lord Reid call for Nick Clegg to revive 'snooper's charter' bill

Victim of Woolwich attack was serving soldier, police confirm Officials have contacted relatives of dead man, who is believed to have served in Afghanistan

Woolwich attack: horror on John Wilson Street Eyewitnesses in shock as two men hack soldier to death in full public view, then ask for passersby to take photographs of them

Woolwich attack: Is your mum a badass too? Tom Meltzer: #MyMumisaMotherfuckingBadass – how about yours? A son's pride in his mother's levelheaded bravery spawned a Twitter hashtag that allowed us all to brag about our cool mums

Cumbria police staff cleared over crime commissioner's expenses leak Two suspended employees will be reinstated but two other people remain under investigation

UK net migration shrinks further, official figures show Net migration decreased by extra 10,000 people to 153,000 in year to September compared with previous quarter, says ONS

Woolwich attack: let's try a bit of keeping calm Coverage of this crime is just another example of gore laid on by the bucket load, the perpetrators' goal, but the reality sanitised

Woolwich attack prompts fears of backlash against British Muslims Two mosques are attacked as English Defence League clash with police at rally and BNP leader calls for protest

Woolwich attack: security forces will look at lone wolf and jihadist theories Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre will convene, in wake of killing and al-Qaida martyrdom video rhetoric heard on London street

David Cameron to chair Cobra meeting after Woolwich attack PM to meet top advisers over emergency security measures following two arrests after 'shocking and horrific' murder

Mark Bridger evidence at April Jones murder trial - in tweets Follow Steven Morris's tweets live from the trial of Mark Bridger, who is accused of murdering schoolgirl April Jones

English Defence League protest after Woolwich attack – video Protesters from the far-right English Defence League have clashed with police in Woolwich where a man was stabbed to death by assailants apparently acting on extreme Islamist views

Anti-Muslim reprisals after Woolwich attack English Defence League in street battles with police in Woolwich and mosques attacked in apparent acts of revenge

Ministers ordered bugging of King Edward VIII's phones, records reveal Previously secret note from Home Office refers to order to intercept communications at height of 1936 abdication crisis

When Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin: suckling pigs and savage brews Newly declassified letter from Foreign Office official describes wartime meeting between two national leaders in Moscow

Wartime MI6 had secret plans for 'liquidation or kidnapping' of targets National Archives reveal plan to sow dissension among Soviet communists then kill Rommel and top Gestapos before D-Day

MI6 spent £200m bribing Spaniards in second world war Newly released documents reveal secret services paid out fortune in bid to stop Franco joining war on Hitler's side

Police and crime commissioners budgets soaring, say MPs Commons committee says new 'crime tsars' are more expensive than traditional police authorities

April Jones case: accused has new memory of seeing body Mark Bridger recalls placing dead girl's body in his living room and tells court: 'I thought I'd had a nightmare'

Woolwich killing: meat cleaver, knife and jihadist claims filmed on mobile Dramatic footage emerges of suspect after British soldier is killed in suspected terror attack near south-east London barracks

Woolwich attack: government convenes emergency meeting – live • Soldier killed, according to local MP Nick Raynsford• Armed police shot two men 'carrying weapons'• Terrorist attack feared as Cobra emergency committee meets

Man killed in deadly terror attack in London street • Alleged attacker is filmed brandishing knife and cleaver• Two suspects shot by armed police• Ministers holding emergency Cobra meetingFollow the latest on the Woolwich attack here

Man appears in court over IRA bombing of Hyde Park John Anthony Downey, 61, charged with the murder of four members of the Royal Household Cavalry in 1982 bombing

Royal Mail workers balloted on privatisation plans Union sends ballot papers to 112,000 postal workers calling on them to back stance against selloff and consider industrial action

April Jones trial: court told of Mark Bridger's previous convictions Man accused of murdering five-year-old girl was caught with firearm and convicted of threatening police officer, jurors hear

Driver who tweeted about knocking cyclist over is under investigation Trainee solicitor's Twitter boast and 95mph speedometer shot provoke online outrage

Triple child killer David McGreavy can be named, high court judges rule Judges revoke 'mistaken' gagging order about coverage of long-serving UK prisoner's parole application

Afghan interpreters' resettlement scheme 'does not go far enough' Concerns raised over proposals that allow candidates to settle in Britain only if they have 12 months' continuous service

Dale Cregan pleads guilty to murders of Mark and David Short Prosecutors say man who admitted murders of two policewomen had also confessed in prison that he killed father and son

Hyde Park bomb: man charged with killing soldiers in IRA attack John Anthony Downey, from Co Donegal, is to appear in court charged in connection with 1982 blast

Thinking Digital gets underway for 2013 The Sage in Gateshead throws open its doors today to an assortment of technologists, geeks, scientists and entrepreneurs who'll be making their way north east for the annual Thinking Digital conference

April Jones trial: jury hears bone fragments could have come from child 17 fragments were found in log burner at Mark Bridger's home, while another was recovered from plughole, court is told

Royal Mail profits surge ahead of planned sell-off Annual profits rise to £324m as the government prepares to sell the 497-year-old postal service

Northern Irish man jailed for 14 years in Athens for drugs smuggling

Black and gay police officer hounded out of force 'like enemy of the state'

Tia Sharp murder: Stuart Hazell to serve a minimum of 38 years in prison

Coronation Street actor Bill Roache in court to face rape charges

April Jones trial: bloodstains in Mark Bridger's home offer clues to child's fate

April Jones murder trial - in tweets

Bradford: City of Dreams captured my home city in all its glory

Charles: 'Climate change sceptics are turning Earth into dying patient'

Former police sergeant jailed after selling information to the Sun

Madeleine McCann's parents: Cleveland discovery offers fresh hope

Padstow speedboat accident: making sense of an idyll turned tragic

Queen's absence from Commonwealth summit heralds new role for Charles

Jimmy Tarbuck arrested over allegation of assault on young boy

So, who is behind these immigration reports?

Speedboat accident kills two and leaves four others injured off Cornish coast

Royal mail sale is sign of Conservatives' desperation, says Labour

Milton Keynes police search for man who raped 12-year-old girl

Escaped prisoner Stevie McMullen recaptured

The week ahead: Alas for Las Vegas, no nudity is expected on Prince Harry's US tour – Caroline Davies

Nigel Evans: complaints against me are completely false

Stuart Hall and BBC face compensation claims after sexual abuse case

Man cleared of murdering two soldiers at Massereene barracks

Phone-hacking investigation: Rebekah Brooks's former bodyguard charged

Man's body found in chimney after office staff report smell

Stuart Hall: life and times

British man dies in Greenland during Arctic expedition

Crime at lowest level for 30 years

Ceri Fuller inquest hears children were killed after couple 'decided to break up'

Police back change in law to treat 17-year-olds in custody as juveniles

Children found dead near father in quarry had been stabbed in the neck

Maze prison redevelopment expected to create 5,000 jobs

The 'magic' bomb detector that endangered lives all over the world

Archbishop of Canterbury calls for introduction of regional banks

Stephen Lawrence's mother attends service to mark 20 years since murder

Stephen Lawrence: how his murder changed the legal landscape

Police question Paris Brown over Twitter comments

Rolf Harris arrest lifts lid on Fleet Street's open secret

Gang feud victim killed by 'hunting posse', court told

Veterinary drug bute found in Asda corned beef

The North Korean embassy – would you believe it's here?

Our terrible spring: the winners and the losers

Cherelle McKenzie-Jackson, 14, jailed for role in 'disrespect' killing

Policeman cleared of dangerous driving over 92mph crash in 40mph area

Romanian and Bulgarian migrants 'unlikely to head for UK' – report

PM of Georgia among owners of secret firms in British Virgin Islands

Offshore secrets: unravelling a complex package of data

Joss Stone's would-be killers: jumbled, disorganised – and highly dangerous

'The police are constantly under attack from the government'

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Woman and child killed by rush-hour train in Surrey

General Sir Nick Houghton to be new chief of defence staff

Two men plotted to kill Joss Stone, court told

Rail freight in Britain: shaped by Beeching, despite his reputation

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Budget 2013: what direction will George Osborne take?

Red Arrows pilot death: prosecutors consider pursuing criminal charges

Britain's trains have most lucrative autumn ever

English Defence League exploiting sex-grooming fears, says report

Falkland Islands: respect 'yes' vote to staying British, Cameron tells Argentina

Three men arrested over alleged sexual assault at Islamic girls' school

Seven men charged with rape after Met police raids

Businessman's bomb-detection kits 'were based on novelty golf gadgets'

Schoolgirl stabbed to death on Birmingham bus

Diane Abbott warns Labour leadership not to 'pander' on immigration

Woman dies in Barnet after possible road rage attack

Sheffield stadium where Jessica Ennis trained for Olympics to close

Birds Eye withdraws ready meals after horse DNA found in chilli

Birmingham terror plotters' profiles

Vicky Pryce faces retrial after jury 'fails to grasp basics'

Extradited man faces court over family's murder

Man, 84, dies at immigration detention centre

Teacher quits music college amid sex allegations

Nestlé yet to submit results of UK tests for horsemeat to FSA

Horsemeat scandal: Owner of Yorkshire abattoir denies wrongdoing

FSA and police raid two British companies in horsemeat investigation

Ex-Chetham's teacher quits RNCM board amid claims of sexual misconduct

Fisherman's Friends singer Trevor Grills dies after G Live accident

Chris Huhne 'constantly badgered' Vicky Pryce to take speeding points

Second police spy unit stole dead children's IDs

Richard III's scarred skeleton becomes a battlefield for academics

Theresa May proposes fast track promotion for young police officers

Britain shivers in snow's icy grip

Wintry weather expected to cause further disruptions in UK

Battle for soul of the Lakes pits unspoilt nature against the lure of more jobs

Sundance star Juno Temple to play Princess Margaret in royal film

Body found in search for teenager who leapt from ferry

Helicopter crash: strict rules govern London airspace

Petrol bombs thrown at Catholic church in east Belfast

Wintry weather expected to last up to a month

Hospital worker faces patient rape charge

Big Issue vendor murders: man charged

Four held in London over suspected Syria links

Newcastle leader accuses ministers of north-south bias over cuts

Senior UVF figures 'orchestrating' Belfast flag violence

MoD: Trident submarines cannot be moved from Scotland to Plymouth

Mother of Briton killed in Thai New Year's Eve party prepares to fly to Thailand

Jimmy Savile police arrest two more men

'Rail an extravagance for many' after 50% fare rises in 10 years

Briton shot dead at Thai new year party

Terror suspect's disappearance sparks criticism of control-order regime

Dogan Ismail murder: police hunt Peckham schoolboy

Search for boy who jumped from Devon-Cornwall ferry called off

Wettest year ends with downpours

Reasons to be cheerful in 2013

Met Office forecasts wet, windy and chilly end to year

Police royal commission needed to rejuvenate confidence, says Keith Vaz

New Year honours 2012: in numbers

Thatcher was ready for Falkland Islands deal, National Archives papers show

Hunting with dogs ban unlikely to get free vote admit top Tories

Man arrested after attacking woman with samurai sword

Queen attends cabinet meeting in Downing Street

Scotland's population at record high

Preston bus station faces termination

David Cameron attacks Ed Miliband's immigration plans

Belfast man charged with threatening to kill Peter Robinson

UK cold snap eases as 'warm' front books in for weekend

Census and religion: churches lose their appeal in struggling Welsh valleys

Laurence Pieau: 'I did my job as a journalist'

One simple message for hoax victim Jacintha Saldanha: 'Bless you'

Duchess of Cambridge leaves hospital

Autumn statement 2012 - coverage of George Osborne's speech as it happened

Royal baby phone hoax: hospital not amused at prank call

British forces accused of killing four teenagers in Afghan operation

Fatal crashes close parts of M4 and M1

Ukip row: multiple reasons children taken from Rotherham foster parents

UK Border Agency has let thousands of overseas students overstay

Oxford University professor's fight death ruled accidental

Setting urban transport to music - the strains of trains

Demonised or deserving: are Scottish universities doing enough to attract poorest pupils?

UK floods: threat from rising rivers - Tuesday 27 November

Two men arrested over rape of 11-year-old schoolgirl

UK floods cause chaos - Monday 26 November

Student visa crackdown sends out wrong signal, says Boris Johnson

Police officer said black people looked like monkeys, court told

Azelle Rodney inquiry: prosecutors to assess new evidence in police shooting

Flood warnings issued in northern England and Wales

Ronan Kerr murder: police carry out searches in Cumbria

Yorkshire love story - and the winners are Brenda and Fred

Floods threaten north of England as heavy rain continues

Offshore secrets: how many companies do 'sham directors' control?

Have you got an early Beryl Bainbridge on your walls?

Hideously diverse Britain: the man who sacked Tony Blair

BBC's Panorama shows staff admitting nominee directors are often a sham

The offshore trick: how BVI 'nominee director' system works

The 'Sark Lark' Britons scattered around the world

Offshore secrets revealed: the shadowy side of a booming industry

Offshore secrets: British Virgin Islands, land of sand, sea and secrecy

Sham directors: the woman running 1,200 companies from a Caribbean rock

More flood alerts issued as heavy rain continues to cause havoc in Britain

Justin Welby's father kept first marriage and sister secret from family

Aberdeen is the happiest place in Scotland... and that's no joke

MI6 job advert seeks James Bond-style 'target elimination specialist'

Police chief quits after commissioner asked him to apply for his job

Asylum backlog: after 11 years, Rose, 65, still waits for ruling

Theresa May still way off cracking immigration

Border Agency condemned over asylum and immigration backlog

Flood warnings abound as sodden UK prepares for fresh rain

Thinktank calls for timetable on Scottish independence deal

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson charges put pressure on No 10

BAA chairman and wife robbed at knifepoint by gang, court told

Northern Ireland to host G8 summit

Mayor to take salary in Bristol pounds

Rothschilds unite with National Trust to fight plans for high speed rail link

Liberal Democrat wins PCC election … by standing as an independent

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Direct mail accounts for nearly half of all UK letters

Woman jailed for faking son's illness to claim £85,000 in benefits

Jimmy Savile abuse inquiry: third man arrested

Theresa May urges people to vote in police commissioner elections

Gay barman was killed by teenager in panicked frenzy after sexual encounter

Jimmy Savile flatmate arrested on suspicion of rape

Anti-guns campaigner Pat Regan was killed by grandson, court hears

Prince Charles in Papua New Guinea: how to speak pidgin English like a royal

Stephen Farrow jailed for life for murders of vicar and retired teacher

Operation Elveden: DCI April Casburn pleads not guilty

UK 'likely to face winter floods'

Elderly woman 'killed by daughter's dogs' as she fed them

Police commissioner election ballots reprinted after Home Office blunder

DfT flouted own rules in botched award of west coast franchise, says report

Derry hopes for transformative year as first UK city of culture

Man shot dead in north Belfast

I was 'bullied' out of A4e, claims Emma Harrison

Sofyen Belamouadden killing: final conviction over Victoria station death

Lottery millionaires each fund six jobs a year, study shows

Woman killed and 11 injured in Cardiff hit-and-run collisions

Christopher Halliwell led police to two bodies – then tried to evade trial

Gatwick airport to push for second runway

Harlow fire: three-year-old girl in critical but stable condition

Richard O'Dwyer supporters buoyed by Gary McKinnon case

Controversial 'zombie roads' scheme to be resuscitated

Depressed father murdered family before killing himself in fire

Clergy on the catwalk as designer vestments spread

Met detectives struggle as hitmen get away with murder on streets of London

Digital ninjas welcome at Leeds Digital Festival

West coast rail debacle blamed on Whitehall brain drain

April Jones search widens to 20 sites around Machynlleth

Northern Ireland police service 'rehired 20% of retired RUC officers'

West coast mainline rail contract halted in shock move

April Jones may have entered vehicle willingly, police say

Northern Ireland assembly rejects motion on gay marriage

Council remembers convicted murderer whose real crime may have been to go on strike

Megan Stammers returns home after French bar owner tips off police

Belfast march draws 30,000

News International denies allegation regarding phone hacking and stories

Royal privacy: 2-1 to the Windsors (with one own goal for Harry)

Chief constable 'secured job for police authority chairman's daughter'

Police are twice as trusted as government, poll finds

£1bn tagging programme has failed to cut reoffending – senior police officer

"I turned £2,000 into £82,000 – then blew the lot in 10 minutes"

Dale Cregan in court on police murder charges

Charlie Richardson, gangland rival of the Krays, dies at 78

UKBA awards contract to track down illegal migrants to UK to Capita

Child's big round circle portrait sends teacher to the slimming club

Naked Rambler sent back to prison

Owen Paterson unveils 'rural contract' designed to drive economic growth

Everton blazes with wildflower meadows in time for the Liverpool Biennial

Alps murders: French and UK police baffled by killer's motive

Using weapons against burglars: should we shoot the messengers?

Police attacked in north Belfast

Mother drowns at Cornwall seaside after lifeguard cover is removed

Belfast rioters 'tried to murder' police officers

Sectarian violence erupts in Belfast, injuring 26 police officers

Hideously diverse Britain: Muslim mates and the demon drink

Tony Nicklinson's family back call to carry on legal fight with new claimant

John Redhead: portrait of a climbing artist

Naked rambler faces mental health checks after breaking down in court

There'll be blue-sky thinking over the white cliffs of Dover

Alan Turing part of Manchester exhibition charting gay rights

Olympic athletes launch 'Join In' weekend of sport to get nation moving

Theresa May blocks Chinese visa changes over security fears

A holiday and a Unicef appeal

Phone hacking: Andy Coulson and other NoW staff due in court

Step aside Olympic rowers: Huddersfield's Steve Brook is sculling for 322 miles

National Trust appoints Dame Helen Ghosh as director general

Notting Hill riots: timeline of a rampage

Stockport's lively Portas Pilot runs into Twitter trouble

Olympic Border Agency strike called off

Woman dies after cliff collapses in Dorset

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks charged over phone hacking

Former Dale Farm travellers face new eviction attempt

Andy Coulson casts a long shadow over David Cameron

Reliance under scrutiny after deportees report injuries while being restrained by guards

Report names 12 northerners to watch

Failure to bring charges in Jimmy Mubenga case 'perverse', says peer

G4S under investigation over prisoner's collapse in police suite security firm managed

Rother has highest proportion of women in England and Wales

Census shows Barrow-in-Furness suffered steepest decline in population

Tower Hamlets credits Olympics effect in population surge

Aerial photograph reveals widower's secret heart-shaped tribute

Minor scuffles break out during Orange Order parade in Belfast

Four face jail after first conviction under new 'slavery' laws

Unite urges London bus workers to accept pay deal for Olympics run

Northern Ireland secretary orders re-arrest of republican

Disclosure of IRA testimony held in Boston could stall search for truth

Boston College ordered to turn IRA interviews over to UK authorities

UK weather: flood warnings as torrential rain hits - as it happened

Moors murderer Ian Brady too ill to attend mental health tribunal

Forecasters fear flooding amid worst rain of year

Crew of crashed RAF Tornado jets named

Six arrested in London over alleged terror plot

Chaos in the courts as justice system rushed to restore order

Police have plans for any riots during Olympics, says watchdog

'If he is sent back to Iraq, he will be killed'

Policing England's riots: 'I have no doubt the riots will happen again' - video

Policing the riots: fear, frustration – and a deep sense of pride

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Richard O'Dwyer petition hits 160,000 signatures

A4e failing to meet Work Programme targets

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Oldham blast kills young child

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Tony Nicklinson: An interview in tweets

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Police 'overlook vulnerable antisocial crime victims'

G4S chief predicts mass police privatisation

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Northern Irish minister challenged over gay blood donation claims

Trial begins of police officer accused of killing Ian Tomlinson

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London bus staff drive on towards Olympic strike

London bus workers vote to strike for £500 Olympic Games bonus

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The men of Halifax queue up to cook

Goodbye for a while

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The new Elizabethan age: the arts, architecture, fashion and technology

Eddie Shah charged with child sex offences

Queen Elizabeth II: how will our age be remembered?

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