The campaign group trying to use an appeal to block the takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland by Lloyds TSB secures a rapid acceleration of the usual legal process.

BBC Scotland's Home Affairs Correspondent analyses data contained in a study spanning four decades.

In a country accelerating towards an increasingly segregated society, a report suggests Bramhall's residents are the UK's least lonely.

The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, officials say.

Increasingly concerned about fakery, wine-makers are calling on particle accelerators and radiation detectors to verify vintages.

Germany's Commerzbank agrees to accelerate its purchase of Dresdner Bank from insurer Allianz in a deal worth 9.8bn euros.

Fraud in the workplace is likely to accelerate during the global economic downturn, according to accountants KPMG.

An extension to a cancer treatment unit for animals opens at the University of Cambridge.

The fall in house prices has accelerated in England and Wales, according to the Land Registry.

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure.

Nato's chief says he hopes for Georgia's "accelerated" integration with the alliance after its conflict with Russia.

A huge particle accelerator experiment is about to start and a tiny group of people believe it could spell the end of the world. But why are we so obsessed with the possibility of apocalypse?

Natural restrictions on the way glaciers move means sea level rise above 2m this century is very unlikely, researchers say.

As the price of petrol edges ever higher, can a change in driving habits use less fuel - and salve a car fan's conscience?

A technology that helps the modern world keep running celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 August.

Inflation in the euro area rose to 4% in June as food and fuel costs continue to accelerate, official figures show.

A teenager is being treated for burns to his face and hands after an accelerant is thrown into a fire.

Climate change is "significantly amplifying" the threats facing the world's bird species, a key study concludes.

India's inflation rate accelerates to its highest since 2004 because of rising food and fuel costs.

A teenager who accelerated at a level crossing before hitting a train and killing his passengers is jailed.