Food giant Heinz has today remained defiant in the face of 11,000 people who are calling for the reinstatement of their latest TV ad.

A study by the British Medical Journal Society has found that blundered body piercings could be a “substantial burden” on hospitals in the near future.

The head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, has recommended that celebrities caught on film taking drugs should go on trial.

Ministers are to consider plans for a database collecting details of every email and phone call sent in the UK.

A father of four has been fined £225 and given a criminal record for overfilling his wheelie bin by four inches.

A woman in need of a kidney transplant has been denied the organs of her dying daughter.

A woman from Merseyside has submitted an application for planning permission to demolish the house of Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco.

A council has admitted to spying on a family using laws designed to track criminals and terrorists to find out if they were really living in a school catchment area.

The e-mail addresses of sex offenders are to be passed on to social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace to prevent them contacting children.

Check out this story about Julio Diaz, a mugging victim who gave his victim some rather unexpected treatment..

Riot police have been forced to take to the streets in many of Mexico’s cities to protect emo kids from an anti-emo rampage.

A scene in one of this week’s episodes of BBC soap Eastenders which showed a character being buried alive has prompted 167 complaints from viewers.