Mother mourns innocent son killed by gang on mopeds

Ryan Bravo, 18, who was caught in South London gangland crossfire, described as decent, hard-working and loving

New Zealand puts Robbie Coltrane on wanted poster

Officers on the hunt for a young offender say he looks a bit like the British actor might have done a few decades ago

Britons return promising more Tibet protests

Two British graduates responsible for audacious pro-Tibet demonstration on the eve of the Olympics have returned home

Simon Gray, writer and smoker, dies

Tributes to playwright who created more than 30 works for stage and television, including the classic 'Quatermaine's Term'

Students who took SATs were marked as absent

An unknown number of 14-year-old pupils were wrongly registered as absent for their tests because of a computer error

News in brief

Football fans in more rail fights | Fire destroys tycoon’s home | NHS technology job share to drive up wage bill

Sky lit up as storm puts on show

Senior forecaster with MeteoGroup said the electrical storm was one of the most impressive light displays for some time

The most influential magazine covers

The industry insiders chose 16 covers in total. Victoria Beckham graces two, and her husband David, is also featured

People: Adam Sherwin

Prince of Wales | Steven Tyler | Craig David | Sarah Brightman | Nick Hornby

Career thieves trade risk of jail for riches

Sean Lynch and Ricky Johnson, career criminals earning large amounts of money from their crimes, have both been jailed

All we need to know is the Government can cope

One of the dilemmas for all governments is to decide how much the public needs to know about potential threats

Sweet stroll for 3-year-old, buy sweets

Max McGrath, 3, walked a mile and a half to his local supermarket at 3am while his oblivious parents were asleep in bed

Chancellor stays silent on stamp duty

Buyers were pulling out of purchases and cancelling viewings in the hope that they will avoid paying tax if they wait

From Mormon sex case to clones called Booger

Secret life emerges as cloned dog owner is unmasked

London's teenage victims of violence

So far 19 young people have died violent deaths on the streets of the capital this year, many of them stabbed

NHS IT project split at a cost of £400,000

The Department of Health confirms two appointments to rescue the largest civilian IT project in the world

Tibet activists: breaching security was easy

Olympic stadium campaigners said that they had been planning protest for four years and promised more demonstrations

Teenager shot dead in shop 'was innocent bystander'

Ryan Bravo, 18, was out shopping with his brother and cousin when he was caught in South London gangland crossfire

Dog-cloner denies she was Mormon sex kidnapper

Bernann McKinney denied she was notorious bail abscondee accused of sexually assaulting and kidnapping a male Mormon

The 20 most overcrowded jails

As well as the new record set by Wandsworth, a further 16 jails have a population of more than 1,000