A letter sent from Edinburgh on Armistice Day which celebrates the end of World War I is released for the first time.

As figures show student allowance delays worsened in the past month, the applications deadline is extended.

A postman who left a hoax bomb on a bridge and sent white powder in the post to leading figures is jailed for four years.

A postman admits sending hate-mail letters to leading figures, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A love letter written in 1940 and stolen by a modern burglar, is returned to the 98-year-old author.

A love letter written to a World War II serviceman is found among items dumped in a garden by a burglar.

A 45-year-old man stands trial accused of sending poisoned vodka bottles in a plot to force Scottish independence.

Royal Naval Reservist Commander Nigel Bassett receives the Queen's Volunteer Reserve Medal at Buckingham Palace.

A woman is jailed for two-and-a-half years for supplying tens of thousands of fake Viagra pills.

Police are granted a further 24 hours to quiz a school caretaker over a series of letter bombings.

Police are granted an extra day to question a school caretaker over a series of letter bomb attacks.

A school caretaker is held over a series of letter bomb attacks that injured nine people.

Police urge office workers to be alert to suspicious packages, after seven letter bombs in three weeks.

A letter bomb which injured a man at a private address in Folkestone is probed alongside other similar incidents.

The English language is the most widely taught and understood in the world, yet the origins of many of its words and phrases remain a mystery. Now word sleuths are hoping to employ the public's experience to help explain some common words.

A collection of letters and postcards written by Samuel Beckett fetches £243,200 at an auction in London.

A rare and valuable stamp may be on an envelope sealed in a ballot box after the US mid-term elections, poll officials say.

Japan's education ministry publishes a letter claiming to be from a bullied pupil threatening suicide on Saturday.

A letter written in 1950 is finally delivered to a Cambridge college.

A primary school's mural, which features on a special collectors' cover for a new set of stamps, is launched.