The police search for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews cost nearly £3.2m, the kidnap trial of her mother Karen hears.

The owners of Hull's showpiece Princes Quay shopping centre put it on the market at an asking price of about £110m.

Japanese car maker Toyota defends bringing out a new model despite slashing its earnings forecast for 2008.

A factory processing salmon is earmarked for closure with the lose of more than 350 jobs, it emerges.

An Essex hospital offers advice and free health checks including blood pressure measurement.

People in Glasgow are to be charged 20p to use new 24-hour automated toilets in the city centre.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has met Afghan president Hamid Karzai at Downing Street amid fresh violence in Afghanistan.

Egyptian security forces redeploy in large numbers in the Sinai desert a day after violent clashes with local Bedouin.

The UK armed forces' chief says British troops serving in Iraq should not be redeployed to Afghanistan.

The head of Nigeria's sports commission has been moved to another job, but remains a member of CAF and Fifa.

After days of fighting in the Congolese city of Goma, relative calm returns as UN peacekeepers increase their presence there, but the human misery continues, writes the BBC's Peter Greste.

Drinks giant Carlsberg plans to close its historic brewery site in West Yorkshire with the loss of 170 jobs.

Diplomatic moves are under way to end a conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has seen many thousands flee their homes.

The UN says it is deeply concerned for tens of thousands of people fleeing a rebel advance in DR Congo.

Luxury car maker Bentley is cutting up to 300 jobs as it ends its nightshift in Crewe.

The UN Security Council condemns military action by Congolese rebels, as thousands flee fighting in eastern DR Congo.

Industrial action could be called over a Hampshire council's decision to close its elderly residential care homes.

The car dealer Charles Hurst says it is to close its Campsie showroom but hopes to redeploy staff elsewhere.

Fifty jobs could be under threat in Devon and Cornwall at the building company Rok.

Up to 30 jobs will be lost at a west Cumbrian seafood factory, the firm announces.