Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised over e-mails sent by his former aide Damian McBride. In a letter to the head of the civil service, Sir Gus O'Donnell, Brown said the controversy sparked by a senior aide's slurs against several high-profile Tories...

A woman who was filmed being struck by a police sergeant at the G20 protests has described his actions as "very violent and unnecessary". Film footage showed an officer hitting Nicola Fisher, 35, from Brighton, across the face with his hand and on her leg...

The civil servant arrested for leaking Home Office documents to the Tories has said he does not regret doing so as he believed it was in the public interest. Christopher Galley also told the BBC he was only responsible for four of the 20 documents leaked over...