Prisons minister Jeremy Wright will announce whether he has agreed to hold an independent inquiry into the deaths of children and young adults in custody.

Bombardier has won a £1bn contract to provide trains for the London Crossrail project, the government announces.

British snowboarder Jamie Nicholls reaches Saturday's slopestyle final as Billy Morgan makes the semi-finals.

Annual house price inflation slowed in January, the second month in a row the measure has fallen, according to the Halifax, the UK's largest mortgage lender.

They may still dislike England, writes BBC Sport's Ben Dirs, but Ireland and Wales now share the biggest Six Nations rivalry

Coronation Street actor William Roache found not guilty of all charges of two rapes and four indecent assaults against women.

Moeen Ali and Stephen Parry are named in England's one-day squad for the West Indies and the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

More than 3,000 people who were subject to the government's cap on welfare payments have now found work, according to new figures.