Survivors remember the Kegworth air disaster, 20 years after a Boeing 737 crashed en route to Belfast.

A new television adaptation is being made of The Day of the Triffids, but why are we still prepared to believe in a post-apocalyptic world roamed by flesh-eating semi-sentient plants? And do we have a love affair with fictionalised destruction?

Urgent repair work is to start at a sports and leisure centre on Hove seafront which was to have been demolished.

Without his cameo role in the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, John Sergeant - whose departure from Strictly Come Dancing has upset many viewers - may not have found such fame after leaving political journalism.

A large hole appears in a seaside car park after an underground culvert carrying a river collapses.

At least two people are killed and hundreds of homes toppled by an earthquake which struck near Indonesia's Sulawesi province.

SPL leaders Celtic score a late winner against Hamilton Accies at New Douglas Park.

Multi-million plans to build two towers on the seafront in Hove will not happen, the developers say.

Ralph Fiennes plays Oedipus in a new version of Sophocles' tragedy, adapted by Frank McGuiness at the National Theatre.

Is Africa's green revolution all that has been promised?

The driver of a US bus that crashed killing eight passengers is held on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, police say.

Pages from the diary of the Israeli astronaut killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster go on show in Jerusalem.

Tony Blair has no idea what his children are up to, says his wife Cherie, because they don't call him. Yet for the rest of us, the pressure to phone home seems greater than ever.

Paul Newman encapsulated the spirit of cinema, whether he was playing a romantic lead or an impertinent anti-hero.

Hearts move up to second spot with victory over Inverness while rivals Hibs see off Hamilton Accies.

Comedian Edward Aczel appears to be a shambles - but the award winner has worked hard at perfecting his unkempt act.

After 75 years, east London's famous Walthamstow stadium faces closure. So has a night at the dogs run its course?

Fifteen people die in the US state of Texas after a bus carrying Vietnamese Catholics crashes off a bridge.

Multi-million pound plans to redevelop Hove seafront are in doubt after its banker pulled out because of the credit crunch.

Torchwood star John Barrowman has known he was gay since he was nine. But was he born that way or did his upbringing have something to do with it? Here, he explains why he set out to try to solve this mystery, for the BBC One show The Making of Me.