A US bankruptcy judge approves the liquidation of Hostess Brands, the company that makes Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos.

A prisoner who stabbed child killer Roy Whiting at Wakefield jail says he did it because of his notoriety, as he is sentenced for the attack.

Commonwealth and foreign personnel who have served in the British Army will not be denied settlement in the British passports in the UK because of "minor" disciplinary offences, it is reported.

The deaths of a mother and all five of her children in a house fire in Harlow are now being treated as murder, police say.