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12:29pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Sports fans will pay £2.10 for a toasted teacake, £2.30 for a 500ml bottle of Coca-Cola and £4.20 for a 330ml bottle of Heineken at the London 2012 Games.

12:27pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

A businessman whose conviction for murdering his estranged wife was overturned following an appeal to the UK's highest court has been found guilty for a second time.

12:06pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

David Cameron's former communications chief, Andy Coulson, has been detained on suspicion of committing perjury during the trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan.

12:05pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

A British hostage being held in Sudan has been released.

11:48am Wednesday 30th May 2012

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange look set to fight on to stop his extradition to Sweden where he faces sex crime allegations.

11:31am Wednesday 30th May 2012

A High Court challenge to a plan to redevelop the Victorian house where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound Of The Baskervilles has succeeded.

11:24am Wednesday 30th May 2012

Doctors have voted in favour of taking industrial action for the first time in almost 40 years, in the bitter row over the Government's controversial pension reforms.

10:53am Wednesday 30th May 2012

The editors of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror have left "with immediate effect" and the papers are moving to a seven-day publishing model.

10:51am Wednesday 30th May 2012

Vince Cable has told the Leveson Inquiry that he was able to use "an independent mind" to judge News Corp's controversial bid for BSkyB.

10:33am Wednesday 30th May 2012

Police have been given another 12 hours to question the parents of six children killed in an arson attack on their home.